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Finally some sanity coming to good old Europe. Instead of making (rather big) part of the population automatically criminals, state 1) gets revenue (directly taxing plus new jobs); 2) can monitor usage, set maximum potency, strains, etc (good enough for most users); 3) takes significant revenue from proper criminals, local and worldwide; 4) makes various medical products more available.

Everybody, apart from organized and local crime, wins.




What is a "proper criminal"?


The alcohol industry might also lose.


In Canada the alcohol industry has bought into the cannabis industry big-time.


A rather big part of the population smokes weed? What?


14% of Italians have enjoyed Cannabis in the past year [0], I'd say that's a rather big part of a European country's population.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_cannabis_use_by_country



What's with Papua New Guinea?


Wow, that is terrible.


> Wow, that is terrible.

Are you referring to the sickly green colour and unreadable size of the graphic, or are making a value judgement about the fact that there seems to be a correlation between national GDP and the use of a moderately harmless psychoactive drug for recreational purposes?

You could be less ambiguous.




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