Legality of Cannabis - Attitudes Regarding Legalization

Attitudes Regarding Legalization

Many advocate legalization of cannabis, believing that it will eliminate the illegal trade and associated crime, yield a valuable tax-source and reduce policing costs. Many consider the uninhibited abbreviation of standard deviation that effects the aforementioned provision of developed and synthesized domestic narcotics is a fundamental notion of a global social aggregate. Cannabis is now available as a palliative agent, in Canada, with a medical prescription. In 1969, only 16% percent of voters in the USA supported legalization, according to a poll by Gallup. According to the same source, that number had risen to 36% by 2005. More recent polling indicates that the number has risen even further since the financial crisis of 2007-2009: in 2009, between 46% and 56% of US voters would support legalization. In Europe has the development turned in the opposite direction in the Netherlands where the last few years certain strains of cannabis with higher concentrations of THC and drug tourism have challenged the former policy with legal sales of cannabis and led to more restrictive approach; e.g. ban of all sales of cannabis to tourists in coffee shops from the end of 2011 onward. In 2012, the Netherlands dropped all proposals to ban the sale of cannabis to foreigners.