Protecting kids: Can Canada make Marijuana uncool?
The emphasis on the need to legalize marijuana to keep it out of the hands of youth has been a common theme for the Liberal party since they formally adopted a legalization policy in 2015.
While traditionally many legalization activists have lobbied for a repeal of prohibition because of what is often described as the relative harmlessness of marijuana, especially in relation to other legal drugs like alcohol or tobacco, the current government’s approach arguably seeks to achieve many of the same ends prohibition has attempted to achieve.
Prohibition, goes the argument, has failed not only because the criminalization of personal use is costly, counterproductive, and unevenly enforced, but because it has done little to prevent kids from using weed and suffering associated harms. And sub culture and now even pop-culture references that are awash in references to casual cannabis use are certainly testament to the degree...
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