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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Canada learn a few things from Colorado when it comes to legalizing pot.
Andrew Freedman, the state’s director of the Office of Marijuana Coordination, tells Maclean’s on the Hill that after the drug became legal, they started public education campaigns on youth prevention and responsible use.
If he had to do it over again, he says he would have started the campaigns well in advance, “just so that people understood that this isn’t a free-for-all culture, that if we’re going to do this, we’re going to set the tone of doing it responsibly and doing it in a way that keeps… Canada safe and healthy.”
Freedman says many issues have popped up which legislators didn’t foresee when they legalized the drug two years ago.
“We are going to have to worry about what commercialization does to potentially drastically increase the number of users… I think [it’s]...
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