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Enforcement 🇨🇦 Canada

Canadian police make their first cannabis seizure

Cannabis had been on Canada's schedule of prohibited drugs since 1923, but police made their first seizure of it only in 1937, and cultivation was banned the following year. The drug was almost unheard of in the country until the 1930s.[1]

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References

  1. Wikipedia — Legal history of cannabis in Canadaarchived

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