Canada’s message to teenagers: Marijuana is legal now. Please don’t smoke it
Canadian teenagers already used it more than young people anywhere else in the world, according to a 2013 Unicef report
The New York Times (US)
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Canada became the second country to make it legal for adults to buy, grow and consume small amounts of marijuana. But it also made it a crime to give it to anyone younger than 19 or 18, depending on the province, and set a penalty of up to 14 years in prison for doing so. At the same time, the government began an $83 million public education campaign, much of it targeting Canadian youths, that warns of pot’s dangers. But persuading teenagers not to see legalization as a green light to use marijuana will be difficult, experts say, not to mention that past antidrug efforts have offered little evidence of success. And when it comes to marijuana and the teenage brain, the science is far from clear.
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