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Canada legalizes recreational use of marijuana
June 26 , 2018
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- 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
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