Will France Be Stuck With Cannabis Prohibition… Forever?
For 45 years, governments in France have held on to some of the harshest and most outdated cannabis policies in Europe. And even though change is happening all around the EU, with neighbors Spain and Italy pushing toward reform, it still seems hard for this “country of liberties” to escape the vicious circle of cannabis prohibition.
After a series of massive terror attacks on French soil, the world rose up in solidarity to celebrating the French values of freedom, fraternity, and equality apparently — qualities apparently targeted by the attackers. But those ethical values, inherited from the French Revolution, know one exception: the approach to drugs and drug users — and in particular, cannabis consumers.
Adopted on New Year’s Eve in 1970, reportedly by drunken parliamentarians feeling threatened by the growing beatnik movement, the French anti-narcotics act has remained largely unchanged since its inception. It continues to show its ugly...
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