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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 There needs to be an understanding of the properties of cannabis before a proposal for decriminalization can be considered 🌿There needs to be an understanding of the properties of cannabis before a proposal for decriminalization can be considered
In recent weeks the media has been reporting on several calls for the decriminalization of the use and possession of marijuana. Discussions involving this topic have even engaged the Minister of Legal Affairs. Notwithstanding, unless there is a comprehensive understanding and analysis of the proposal, with the public being fully informed of all the major implications, the decriminalization of cannabis and hemp should not be given serious consideration.
Decriminalization is the removal of criminal penalties for drug law violations (usually possession for personal use). Less than five per cent of the countries in the world have gone this route. Why so few?
Now, anyone who has researched marijuana would have heard of Raphael Mechoulam. He is an 84-year-old organic chemist, born in Bulgaria, who lived most of his life in Israel and spent most of it studying cannabis. He is the author of more than 400 scientific papers and the...
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