CANNABIS CONTROL POLICY

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Elimination of the consumption of cannabis can be a dream that may not be realized by many countries even those that are advanced. This implies that in cases where it is a challenge to curb the situation, it is always advisable that the countries come up with a remedy of controlling the situation. The controls could be in terms of the amount of cannabis that is planted or imported into the country or legal sanctions (Jiggens 2005, p.49). To some extent this is referred to as recreational drugs that can be abolished by a country because its impact is adverse to human health and body in general. Countries have to come up with a clear distinction between the soft and hard drugs and those that have unacceptable risks ought to be abolished. Most of the activities that accompany the character of cannabis consumers are seen as being negative and most of them end up in prison for legal offences like rape, robbery among others. The supply of the drug itself is a crime if the supplier does not have the legal documents and this may result to a conflict of interest between the countries that are involved in the purchase and supply of the drug. Initially, the licensed Dutch suppliers and coffee shops were under a rationale by the government in which they were to undertake business with adherence to the rules of the government. This indicates that in the case where an individual would like to consumer the hard or soft drugs, and then he has to obtain them from a specific dealer. The government in its effort to curb the over consumption of the drugs, went ahead to ensure the markets were split such that those that supplied the hard drugs were different from those with the soft drugs. In Australia, cannabis is a drug that is widely use... ... middle of paper ... ...ce of smoking cessation after diagnosis of early stage lung cancer on prognosis: Systematic review of observational studies with meta-analysis. British Medical Journal. Vol 98 (1). p 340. Poirier, M. Ethics vs. Activists: The Tobacco Experience. Tobacco News and Information. October 16, 2002. Room, R., Fischer, B. &t Hall, W. (2010). Cannabis policy: moving beyond stalemate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Solowij, N., Grenyer, F.S., (2002). Are the adverse consequences of cannabis use age- dependent? Addiction. Vol 97. (9). P.108. Taylor, N. & Bareja, M. (2005). 2002 National Police Custody Survey. Technical and Background Paper No. 13. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. Trewin, D. & Madden, R. (2003) The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples 2003 Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

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