SOWK 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cannabis Cultivation, Health Canada, Toronto Star
7 Mar 2019
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As we all know cannabis in canada is now legal for both recreational and medicinal purposes. The recreational purpose was legalized on october 17th, 2018 whereas the medicinal purpose was legalized on july 30th, 2001 under conditions outlined in the marijuana for medical. Before the legalization of medical cannabis in 2001, cannabis was banned in canada from 1923 when it was added to the country"s confidential restricted list under the. Narcotics drug act amendment bill after a vague reference to a new drug . Cannabis did not begin to attract official attention in canada until the later 1930s, and even then, it was minimal with only 25 cannabis arrests between the time of 1930 and 1946, according to the rcmp recordings. Also, between 1946 and 1961, cannabis accounted for only 2% of all drug arrests in. Then, in 1960s, cannabis began to increase in canada quickly with 2,300 cases in 1968 and 12,000 cases in 1972.
