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Drug liberalization is a drug policy process of decriminalizing, legalizing, or repealing laws that prohibit the production, possession, sale, or use of prohibited drugs. Variations of drug liberalization include drug legalization, drug relegalization, and drug decriminalization. [1]
In Europe as of 2007, Sweden spends the second highest percentage of GDP, after the Netherlands, on drug control. [12] The UNODC argues that when Sweden reduced spending on education and rehabilitation in the 1990s in a context of higher youth unemployment and declining GDP growth, illicit drug use rose [13] but restoring expenditure from 2002 again sharply decreased drug use as student ...
The use of cannabis as a recreational drug has been outlawed in many countries for several decades. As a result of long-fought legalization efforts, several countries such as Uruguay and Canada, as well as several states in the US, have legalized the production, sale, possession, and recreational and/or medical usage of cannabis. The broad ...
President-elect Donald Trump once deemed the drug war a 'joke' and called for the legalization of all drugs, during a luncheon held by The Miami Herald in 1990.. But as Trump's cabinet takes shape ...
Clinton and Trump on cannabis law reform, prescription drug prices, and trafficking across the Mexican border
The following year, efforts on cannabis reform were more successful, with the Tribal Council passing a resolution instructing the tribal attorney general to draft legislation legalizing medical cannabis. [5] A new feasibility study was approved in 2019, analyzing the pros and cons of medical cannabis legalization. [6]
State senators took another stab at legalizing medical marijuana in NC, this time by adding new language to a bill that would regulate hemp and ban these other drugs.
The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, also known as the MORE Act, is a proposed piece of U.S. federal legislation that would deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and enact various criminal and social justice reforms related to cannabis, including the expungement of prior convictions.