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Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know by tokyodude on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:18AM (#18238627)
> On the bright side, we could finally get some quality data on the health impacts of pot

Doesn't this already exist from other countries where it's been legal for decades?

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Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know by dagw on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:29AM (#18238709)
Doesn't this already exist from other countries where it's been legal for decades?

As far as I know Canada is only the second country in the world (after Uruguay) to actually fully legalize recreational cannabis.

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Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know by romwell on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:13PM (#18244634)
FWIW, the population of California (where recreational cannabis has been legal since winter) is larger than the entire population of Canada.
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Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know by chimeracoder on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:58PM (#18241026)
> Doesn't this already exist from other countries where it's been legal for decades?

There is no other country in the world where marijuana has been legal for decades.

However, that doesn't mean that research into the effects of marijuana doesn't happen, including in the U.S. Marijuana is actually one of the most well-studied drugs in existence - we have a much clearer understanding of the short- and long-term effects of marijuana than we do of almost every commercially-produced pharmaceutical on the market.

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Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know by Sharlin on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:31AM (#18238727)
I don't think there are any. Not in the West, anyway. Even in the Netherlands it's only "tolerated", not legalized or even decriminalized.
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Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know by vvillena on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:53AM (#18240250)
Portugal decriminalized all drugs a few years ago, with tremendous success from a health and crime perspective. Decriminalization and state-sponsored addiction programs were key in controlling a drug epidemic there.

It would be a solution for the current American opioid crisis, but implementing such measures there would be political suicide.

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Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know by Sharlin on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:03PM (#18240363)
Yes, true. I didn't mention Portugal because it didn't pass the "decades of experience" condition.
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Re:Cannabis is legal in Canada: What you need to know by StavrosK on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:27AM (#18238694)
Where has it been legal for decades? I'm not aware of any.
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