When Canada legalized cannabis for adult use in 2018, it was a big step in what felt like an inevitable progression towards more sensible cannabis policies around the world.
However, some seven years later, much of that momentum seems to have stalled, while a growing number of pundits and politicians—primarily on the right side of the political spectrum—are pushing back. What many had long hoped for seemed to finally be coming to fruition.
In 2013, Uruguay became the first nation to legalize recreational cannabis, followed by several more US states in the coming years. In 2017, Catalonia also legalized.
And while many countries followed with different approaches to legalizing and regulating cannabis for medical purposes, or even decriminalizing it for adult use, in many ways it seems Canada may have been a high water mark, not one step in a more sensible reconsideration of the world’s approach to Cannabis sativa.
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