{"id":468,"date":"2018-10-25T20:20:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/10\/25\/20181025ksdloc8lq3xsl65rth5n3rjqplv901\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:41:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:41:59","slug":"20181025ksdloc8lq3xsl65rth5n3rjqplv901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/10\/25\/20181025ksdloc8lq3xsl65rth5n3rjqplv901\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada legalizes marijuana: Is the U.S. next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">By Max Slomiak<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-Q2w42\" src=\"\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/Q2w42\/1\/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important;\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">if(\"undefined\"==typeof window.datawrapper)window.datawrapper={};window.datawrapper[\"Q2w42\"]={},window.datawrapper[\"Q2w42\"].embedDeltas={\"100\":500,\"200\":450,\"300\":425,\"400\":425,\"500\":400,\"700\":400,\"800\":400,\"900\":400,\"1000\":400},window.datawrapper[\"Q2w42\"].iframe=document.getElementById(\"datawrapper-chart-Q2w42\"),window.datawrapper[\"Q2w42\"].iframe.style.height=window.datawrapper[\"Q2w42\"].embedDeltas[Math.min(1e3,Math.max(100*Math.floor(window.datawrapper[\"Q2w42\"].iframe.offsetWidth\/100),100))]+\"px\",window.addEventListener(\"message\",function(a){if(\"undefined\"!=typeof a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var b in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])if(\"Q2w42\"==b)window.datawrapper[\"Q2w42\"].iframe.style.height=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][b]+\"px\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">On Oct. 17, Canada passed a law to make legal all uses \u2014 including medicinal and recreational uses \u2014 of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Dylan Chand is a Quinnipiac University senior from Coquitlam, British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI think legalization for marijuana is something that has been long overdue,\u201d he said. \u201cFor Canada I think it\u2019s great for the economy because we\u2019re known as a cannabis country already, so it makes the sale of marijuana seem much more legitimate and can reduce the stigma of marijuana as a drug.\u201d <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Over the past five years, marijuana legislation has started to become more common in states around the U.S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/health\/state-medical-marijuana-laws.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">National Conference of State Legislators<\/a>, as of Oct. 25, marijuana is legal for both medicinal and recreational use in nine states and there are 30 states in which it is only legal to use for medicinal purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Will the U.S finally make marijuana legal in all 50 states?<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Quinnipiac professor Jonathan Pelto, who studies government affairs and policy said, \u201cAs more and more states look to Canada and their experience and particularly the revenue that they will make from this policy, these states are going to say, \u2018Look, if Canada and Colorado can do it so can we.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Canada\u2019s policy may also make marijuana laws more strict at the federal level with the current administration&#8217;s stance <em>against<\/em> the legalization of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if the Trump administration tries to ramp up stronger enforcement of marijuana laws to get back at Canada,\u201d Pelto said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Marijuana is already being discussed at the federal level as Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey proposed a bill to remove marijuana from the schedule 1 classification. This classification means that it is the worst kind of drug in the federal government&#8217;s eyes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In the upcoming midterm elections, both Michigan and North Dakota will vote on the legalization of recreational marijuana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI think it will pass in Connecticut this year or next year. As Massachusetts gets on board, it\u2019s just that you\u2019re losing so much revenue,\u201d Pelto said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Some students are in favor of legalizing marijuana throughout the U.S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Quinnipiac junior, Stephen Cangelosi, said, \u201cMarijuana should be legal because it\u2019s not that bad of a drug. It\u2019s safer than alcohol and if it was controlled on the market you wouldn\u2019t have to worry about it being laced with any other drugs, such as angel dust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Some students think that eventually the entire country will legalize marijuana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI think that in the next five years all states will legalize marijuana \u2026 because it makes so much money for the states and if it\u2019s regulated by the federal government \u201c said Khrys De Jesus, a sophomore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Some college students think \u2014 legal or not \u2014 marijuana will stay the same on college campuses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">De Jesus said, \u201cI think more people would be open to doing it, but overall the amount of people who use it would stay the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">This past week Canada passed a law to make all uses of Marijuana legal, his includes medicinal and recreational.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Dylan Chand is a Quinnipiac University senior from Coquitlam, British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cI think legalization for marijuana is something that has been long overdue&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamden","category-quinnipiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}