Cette position ne fait pas l’unanimité aux États-Unis. Ethan Nadelman, le directeur exécutif de la Drug Policy Alliance, une organisation dont le mandat est de promouvoir les nouvelles politiques concernant les drogues, a affirmé que « les recherches les plus concluantes tendent à démontrer que la décriminalisation de la marijuana a peu ou n’a pas d’impact sur la consommation »(43).
Ethan Nadelman, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, an organization aimed at promoting new drug policies, has stated that “The best research tends to show that the decriminalization of marijuana has little to no impact on levels of use” (43) He added that U.S. fears are unfounded and that “the U.S.
is opposed to more lenient marijuana laws in Canada because they would highlight how out-of-touch the stricter American laws are in comparison to much of the Western world” (44) The Canadian government did take the unusual step of briefing the U.S. government on its proposed amendments before Bill C-38 was tabled in the House of Co
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