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Enforcement 🇨🇦 Canada

Twenty-five cannabis arrests in sixteen years

For the whole period from 1930 to 1946 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police recorded only 25 cannabis arrests, and between 1946 and 1961 cannabis accounted for 2 per cent of all drug arrests in Canada. Cases rose to 2,300 in 1968 and 12,000 in 1972.[1][2]

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References

  1. Wikipedia — Cannabis in Canadaarchived
  2. Wikipedia — Legal history of cannabis in Canadaarchived

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