Questions tagged [cannabis-legalization]
For questions relating to the legalization of cannabis, also known as marijuana or ganja.
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Is there any other country aside Thailand that criminalized cannabis after legalizing it?
According to CNN:
Thailand’s new government is moving ahead to pass new legislation
banning cannabis for recreational use in a major reversal 18 months
after the country became the first in Asia to ...
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How to know if increases in self-reported marijuana usage are real?
Let's take Colorado for example.
Considering the prior existence of penalties for marijuana use, it is reasonable to expect that people may have been less inclined to admit their marijuana usage prior ...
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Why does decriminalisation/legalisation not reduce the cost of drugs?
It is conventional wisdom that the criminalisation of the supply of recreational psychoactive drugs causes an increase in the cost to supply and therefore to the user. In an unreferenced but somewhat ...
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How are U.S. states allowed to put marijuana legalization on ballots when it's against federal law?
Five states will now legalize marijuana for both recreational and medical use.
During the November elections, A majority of New Jersey and Arizona residents voted yes on ballot measures to make ...
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What's the point of legalising dangerous drugs in some states in the US? [closed]
4 American states - New Jersey, Arizona, South Dakota and Montana- recently agreed to lift their ban on marijuana. And Oregon became the first state in the history of the USA to descriminalize ...
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Why do right-wing parties generally oppose the legalization of marijuana?
In a general sense, it seems that proponents of marijuana legalization tend to come from left-wing political parties, or at least, from the left-leaning factions within right-wing parties.
I am ...
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What countries in the world have legalized both abortion and cannabis?
As far as I am aware, Uruguay is the only country in the Americas that has legalized both abortion and cannabis:
Abortion was legalized in 2012, followed by same-sex marriage and cannabis in the ...
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Do US lobbyists pay $45 million annually to keep cannabis illegal? [closed]
Basically, I want to know how accurate is this. Do lobbyists pay $45 million in US to keep ganja illegal?
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