Hard News: Cannabis: legalisation versus decriminalisationPosted by On

One thing I’ve been hearing fairly regularly, usually from more conservative voters, is that they’re wary of voting “yes” for legalisation and regulation of cannabis, but that they’d definitely get behind decriminalisation if that was on offer.

I think most of them are sincere in saying so, and I understand the appeal of decriminalisation: it seems like a nice middle ground, easing the harm of criminalisation without going all the way. But I also think that it’s clearly  an inferior option that comes with its own risks.

So I was pleased to hear John Hudak, Deputy Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution, address the choice during last week’s Helen Clark Foundation webinar on the cannabis referendum, in response to a viewer question. He had this to say:

The United States definitely debated those topics. In fact, in the 1970s a lot of states decriminalised cannabis, starting with Oregon in 1972 or 1974, and including a…

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