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> 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
by tokyodude 8y ago
> 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?
- StavrosK 8y agoWhere has it been legal for decades? I'm not aware of any.
- dagw 8y agoDoesn'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.
- romwell 8y agoFWIW, the population of California (where recreational cannabis has been legal since winter) is larger than the entire population of Canada.
- Sharlin 8y agoI don't think there are any. Not in the West, anyway. Even in the Netherlands it's only "tolerated", not legalized or even decriminalized.
- vvillena 8y agoPortugal 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.
- Sharlin 8y agoYes, true. I didn't mention Portugal because it didn't pass the "decades of experience" condition.
- chimeracoder 8y ago> 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.