Six policy lessons relevant to cannabis legalization
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Cannabis legalization: adhering to public health best practice.
©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ, November 3, 2015, 187(16) 1211 According to the 2011 United Nations World Drug Report, the prevalence of cannabis use in the Netherlands, where cannabis has been de facto legal for the last 40 years, is lower than in many other European countries, the United States and Canada.1 Jurisdictions that have recently legalized cannabis (Uruguay and four...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0095-2990,1097-9891
DOI: 10.1080/00952990.2019.1569669