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So far, the Canadian government has been drawing strategies to discourage marijuana growers by imposing hefty punishments for them. On the other hand, plans are being launched endorsing safer consumption of the prohibited drug.
The low-risk use guidelines are soon to be published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health. According to the study’s main writer, it will take a while for the procedures to embed themselves into public; however, they are essential since the use of marijuana is on the rise.
Scientist Benedikt Fischer of Centre for Addiction and Mental Health says, “(Acceptance of the guidelines) will take some time, but the same situation existed when the low-risk drinking guidelines came about. In the beginning, they were quite controversial, and it took them a while to get established… and today they are fundamentally accepted public-health policy and practice tool in alcohol.”
While all this is going, ironically, the federal administration aims to imprison everyone caught growing six or more pot plants for at least six months. The utmost punishment will be 14 years time in jail.
Fischer says, “This government won’t (change) and I won’t try to battle with them. This is part of their ideological core and so be it. I think it’s just a matter of time until the law will follow the public’s will and opinion on this issue. Nevertheless, the law is not something that is modifiable by users, so our effort here focuses on modifiable health risks, which is why we stayed out of the legal debate in this case.”
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