As Canada legalizes pot, other countries likely to follow

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Oct. 17, 2018 – UNITED STATES : With its northern neighbour legalizing and its southern neighbour mulling it, can the world’s most influential proponent of the drug war be far behind? “I don’t think Canada legalizing is going to move the ball with regard to legalization in the U.S., especially with this administration,” says Hannah Hetzer, who tracks international marijuana policy for the New York-based Drug Policy Alliance. While President Donald Trump has said he would likely support a congressional effort to ease the federal prohibition, his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, is a marijuana critic and legalization opponent. For decades the U.S. required other nations to co-operate in the drug war or risk losing foreign aid, even as some Latin American countries wracked by violence criticized America for failing to curb its appetite for cocaine, marijuana and other drugs. Now, more than 30 states have OK’d the medical use of marijuana, and nine have approved recreational use by adults…