{"id":32979,"date":"2024-04-05T14:20:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=32979"},"modified":"2024-04-05T14:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:20:16","slug":"as-us-government-considers-rescheduling-marijuana-canada-prime-minister-says-international-treaties-were-no-issue-for-his-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=32979","title":{"rendered":"As US Government Considers Rescheduling Marijuana, Canada Prime Minister Says International Treaties Were No Issue for His Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mari.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"184\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">As the DEA continues its review of marijuana\u2019s scheduling status, with some lawmakers warning that a change could be in violation of international treaties, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says for his country it has not been an issue. Canada legalized recreational marijuana for everyone 18 and older in 2018, becoming just the second country \u2026 Continue reading<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/themarijuanaherald.com\/2024\/04\/as-us-government-considers-rescheduling-marijuana-canada-prime-minister-says-international-treaties-were-no-issue-for-his-country\/\">As US Government Considers Rescheduling Marijuana, Canada Prime Minister Says International Treaties Were No Issue for His Country<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada and Uruguay managed to legalize without issue, yet the USA, the major reason these international treaties exist, is worried they&#8217;ll suffer consequences, ffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The only downside we were extremely worried about was that it would place us in non-compliance with certain international treaties on drug control\u201d, said Trudeau. \u201cWe thought they could punish Canada because we\u2019re not aligned with the treaties.\u201d<br>Trudeau says that despite this fear, \u201cnobody talked to us about this, they were interested and looking at what we were doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It\u2019s worth noting that Uruguay, which legalized marijuana in 2013, has also faced no international issues following implementation of their law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the DEA continues its review of marijuana\u2019s scheduling status, with some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,39,4,1758,57],"class_list":["post-32979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-cannabis","tag-drugwar","tag-uruguaya","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32982,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32979\/revisions\/32982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}