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US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana

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662 points JacobHenner | 1 comments | 30 Apr 24 17:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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incomingpain ◴[30 Apr 24 18:11 UTC] No.40214167[source]▶
Here in Canada, it has been rather eye opening the extent of cannabis use. There are more cannabis shops then mcdonalds. You can grow your own and most people do. There's online options.

A society which criminalizes something so popular and widely used; will ultimately fail at their prohibition.

The next step for society would be to attempt at changing opinion, but what are the unintended consequences? The answer is, bad news.

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1. gwbas1c ◴[30 Apr 24 22:24 UTC] No.40217161[source]▶
> Here in Canada, it has been rather eye opening the extent of cannabis use.

When I visited Quebec in 1997, I saw a lot of people openly smoking cannabis in public. Once I smelt weed, turned around, and saw a kid, probably about 12-14, just sitting on a bench in public smoking a joint. I wasn't in a shady part of town, either.