Legal recreational cannabis use comes with an increase in innovation – but tends to focus on what marketers and businesses are interested in, rather than health benefits and risks.
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Several children have died after attempting these social media crazes.
Research has long shown that criminalising otherwise law-abiding citizens for their drug use is no deterrent. It only damages their life chances, in a discriminatory fashion.
Whipping cream canisters contain nitrous oxide, which some people use to get high. But going ahead with a proposal before the TGA to ban them altogether would be an overreaction.
Like Brexit in the UK, cannabis reform in New Zealand fell into an age gap — given time, a second referendum would probably succeed.
The British think tank Transform has given Canada high marks for its cannabis legalization efforts. But it also delved into areas that still need work, including social equity issues like amnesty.
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Professor of Political Science, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor, National Drug Research Institute / enAble Institute, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Leicester
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The Open University
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Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Windsor
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Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
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Professor of Resource Economics, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Resource Economics, UMass Amherst