Reefer Madness? More like Reefer Sanity. Yet another study finds that cannabis legalization in Canada (where the age limit is 18 or 19 depending on the province*) did NOT result in any increase in cannabis-related psychosis. This dovetails nicely with several previous studies in both Canada and the USA.
In other words, the remaining prohibitionists and fearmongers are looking less and less like Cassandra, and more and more like Chicken Little now.
(*Quebec had initially set it at 18 in 2018, but they raised it to 21 in January 2020, with no grandfather clause. Alberta remains 18 to this day, and all other provinces are 19, mostly matching the drinking ages.)
Cannabis should be legalized with a minimum age of 18. Penalties for driving while under the Cannabis should not be light penalties. The penalties should be at least hundreds of dollars for a fine. If a person while under the influence of Cannabis caused a car crash, then that person should be in jail for at least weeks. Exceptions should not be made because that would be wrong for themselves and for any victims. Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and Cannabis should remain legal but everything else should be illegal. No decriminalization, either because illegal drugs should remain illegal.
ReplyDeleteDecriminalization for Cannabis is not a bad policy decision, either.
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