The Parliament of Canada has passed Cannabis Act (or Bill C-45), a landmark law that legalizes recreational use of marijuana nationwide.
It makes Canada the first G7 country to legalize the drug’s recreational use and the second to have a nationwide, legal marijuana market, after Uruguay (permitted in December 2013).
It allows adults to possess up to 30 grams of dried cannabis in public, but minimum legal age to buy and consume the drug has been set federally at 18.
Cannabis is banned in most countries but it is legal for medicinal purposes in 14 European countries, Argentina, Israel, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Turkey, Zambia, and