In October 2018, Canada officially legalized the recreational vaping** of adults, which caused quite a stir at the time.
The rationale given by Canada is that legalization can reduce the number of convicted people for drug use, save social costs, and cut off funds from criminal organizations.
There is always some gap between what can be expected and what is realistic.
According to an article published in the Proceedings of the Canadian Medical Association on October 10, 2023, the legalization of ** implemented in Canada 5 years ago has significantly reduced the number of arrests related to **, but the number of people who have been taken to the hospital for emergency treatment due to drug use has increased dramatically.
In addition, the number of users is growing dramatically, with young people taking it most frequently, with two-thirds of users able to buy it through legal channels.
Even due to the fact that there are too many retail licenses issued, in Canada's major urban areas, the streets are full of stores, which are more volatile than convenience stores.
With the leaves flying all over the sky, it is difficult for the Chinese who study and live there to be alone.
I talked to an international student in Vancouver about this before, and the young people there thought it was cool to smoke **, and when it came to holidays, there was a sweet ** smell in the dormitory corridor, not only in the classroom, but even the professor hid in the toilet to smoke.
He said that the group of international students around him is polarized, and those who don't smoke resolutely don't touch it, and those who smoke will often go clubbing and party, and have a lot of fun.
Looking at the world, there have been countries and regions, including Uruguay, Canada, Mexico, South Africa and 23 states in the United States, that have legalized recreational use** at the legal level.
Germany**, which has been doing strange tricks since taking office, also approved a bill on August 16 this year to try to legalize the cultivation and use of recreational **, allowing adults to buy and own up to 25 grams**.
Because the authorities **believe that legalisation is the way to protect children and young people.
You don't have to think how ridiculous this proposal is, since there is no way to strictly restrict the domestic ** smoking environment, the only choice left for the small ** is to follow the trend, deregulate and move towards formalization will better manage the ** market.
The bill is currently under consideration in the German Bundestag, and if passed, Germany will become the second EU country to legalize **.
Under the principle of economic priority, the unhealthy trend of legalization has also quietly blown into Asia.
Countries like Myanmar, Cambodia, and Egypt, although smoking is strictly prohibited at the legal level, in practice, due to economic and political strength issues, the local people can only ignore the situation of people smoking.
But at the legal level, it was Thailand that set a precedent.
Previously, smoking a small amount of ** in Thailand was punishable by one year in prison, and even up to 15 years in case of possession of ten kilograms**.
But on February 8, 2022, Thailand** announced that it would remove ** from the drug control list, becoming the first country in Asia to legalize it, allowing cultivation, production, import and export**.
This legalization has completely thrown away Thailand's decades-old anti-drug tradition, and the blood debt between the anti-narcotics police and drug dealers has been written off, officially moving from a gray area to a legal area.
In doing so, Thailand actually wants to promote ** to become a cash crop, increase the added value of agriculture, and can also use **legalization to attract tourists.
So after a year of implementation, how does it work?
According to Thai media reports, within a few days of the opening of the policy, there have been a number of cases of being sent to the hospital for emergency treatment due to abuse, and a few patients have died due to cardiac arrest.
According to official statistics, in 2021, there were only 1.89 million users** in Thailand, and in 2022 it soared to 11 million, and the proportion of teenagers who smoked** increased tenfold.
It's hard to say about the effect of pulling the economy, but the hospital business is quite hot.
If you go to Khao San Road in Bangkok, you will find all the ** shops on the street, all bright green leaf signs, what **drinks**salads** salads, **cakes, **dishes and so on.
An associate professor at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand once conducted a spot check on more than 30 kinds of ** beverages on the streets of Bangkok and found that 30% of the drinks contained THC exceeding the standard.
So when you travel to Thailand, if you just want to taste the local specialties, but you don't see the bright green leaf logo, you will definitely eat it by mistakeIf you also bring these ** foods back to China, congratulations, it is already a drug trafficking.
Thailand's original idea was to deregulate **, and then supervise and effectively guide, but the question is, if ** can't control it when it's banned, why do you think you can control it when it's liberalized?
So now Thailand** is a little bit regretful.
Thai Prime Minister Saita said in an interview in September this year that he would correct the policy within six months and reformulate the law to limit it to medical use.
Therefore, after legalization, some countries are high-sounding, some countries are silent, and some countries are stubborn in face, such as people drinking water, knowing their own warmth and coldness.
I just can't understand that there are still quite a few people in China who are calling for **legalization, and take cigarettes as a comparison, what cigarettes have an addiction rate of 32%, alcohol 27%, *23%, *9%, and I have never seen a case of overdose death.
Citing an article published in the British medical journal The Lancet, they tried to show that ** is not as harmful and dependent on the body as tobacco and alcohol:
But this article is about the fact that it is impossible to directly compare tobacco and alcohol with other drugs, the author is complaining about the classification of illegal drugs in the UK, and then using tobacco, alcohol and other legal drugs as a reference to make himself more powerful, rather than comparing the harmfulness of drugs and legal drugs.
In fact, according to internationally published data, about 9% of ** users** will become addicted, while 16% of young users are addicted, and 25-50% of frequent users* are the highest drug addiction in the United States.
In 2012, of the 7.3 million people over the age of 12 who were addicted to illegal drugs, 4.3 million were addicted, accounting for 17%；
According to data from 1998 to 2008, the number of people receiving **addiction** in the United States rose by 30%.
At the point of addiction, they will talk about naturally growing ** and deliberately confuse ** varieties, what THC (tetrahydro** phenol) content is very small, at 05%-3%, the average person doesn't feel anything.
But if it is replaced with **resin, it contains up to 10% THC, which has a certain medicinal and abuse tendency;The THC content of ** oil can even reach 10%-50%.
On May 14, 2009, the University of Mississippi in the United States analyzed the samples at that time, showing that the THC content in the current products on the market has reached 1255 per cent, compared to 4 per cent in 1983.
For example, the hash of the concentrated product is genetically modified and the THC content can reach up to 35%, which is far more toxic than it was twenty years ago.
So there is no doubt that smoking ** will definitely cause serious damage to the body:
1. Causing permanent damage to the brain;
2. Tobacco contains 50%-70% more carcinogens than tobacco;
Third, it is hallucinogenic and more likely to drive and fight.
And most importantly, it is a stepping stone to the drug addiction circle.
If you just smoke too much, you won't have the addiction to drugs, and old smokers won't have such ridiculous ideas.
However, many people who take ** will think that ** is not exciting enough after a period of time, so they try *** and other strong drugs that are more harmful to the body and more harmful to society.
If you start smoking ** from adolescence, the probability of eventually forming **dependence will be 2 to 4 times higher than that of others, and it is very easy to get involved in other drugs after quitting**.
Especially in China, drug trafficking is basically equated with the death penalty, so no drug dealer is stupid enough to only do ** business.
The way they find new customers is often mixed with more pleasure** and you can't tell if the cigarette is processed.
In 2016, the United Nations World Drug Report stated that there is 1Of the 8.3 billion people who use drugs, 98% of the 200,000 people who die from drugs start by using them.
If alcohol is the cause of crime, and tobacco is the cause of chronic cancer, then it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a stepping stone on Huangquan Road.
In the eyes of Western countries, whether it is a drug or not depends mainly on political needs.
In his autobiography, Obama admitted that he smoked ** when he was younger, and even said in public: I don't think it's less dangerous than alcohol, or even in terms of its impact on individual consumers.
There are also celebrities such as Clinton, Bush, Governor Schwarzenegger and Cameron, all of whom admit that they have smoked, and they are not doing it honestly, but for the sake of the campaign.
In the United States, there are conservative estimates of 30 million** groups, legalization means that you can win a huge number of votes, and after legalization, it can also provide a huge number of jobs, and the tax revenue created every year can compete with cigarettes.
Since Canada has allowed its votes to follow drugs, it is also doomed that it will not be the Netherlands, but the next Mexico.
Due to China's relatively good anti-drug propaganda, the international student community in Canada basically stays away from drugs, but the environment will always imperceptibly affect the young people.
When flying leaves are packaged into some kind of high-end circle culture, when there are legal and compliant ** stores on the street, it will bring a cognitive illusion to young people, thinking that smoking ** is ** encouraging behavior, and they do not smoke but become an outlier, and may also feel that Chinese are **, are stubborn, not fashionable enough, and so on.
Therefore, there are many pilots' remarks on the Internet that are full of guidance and hints, especially some study abroad agents, who really dare to launder everything in order to make money, and they are simply struggling.
The overwhelming Thai tourist number in China, in the name of visiting stores and recommending:
If you say that you are delirious, damage to cranial nerves, drug driving and other dangers, they will refute the dangers of drunkenness, dizziness, drunken fights, drunk driving, etc., why should the two be treated differently.
This group of pilots is in a hurry to take off their hats for soft drugs, here is **cigarettes and alcohol, and that is ***, but they know better than anyone the essential difference between flying leaves and smoking.
It's just that I'm sorry, living in this soil guarded by the anti-narcotics police with their lives, you have to abide by the laws here, whoever thinks it's unreasonable, please run to the country where he thinks it's reasonable, don't violate the law in China on the one hand, and talk about human liberation and freedom at the same time, those who can say these things are scum and rotten people.
I also want to say to some young people that the so-called self-control is not blindly believing that you are never addicted, but that you can keep the bottom line no matter how bewitched by others, because standing next to the abyss is no different from staring at the abyss.