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Research Charts the Course of Marijuana 'Normalization' Prior to Legalization and Regulation of the Drug

Posted on Friday, February 16th, 2018
A group of young adults at a 420 rally

By Megan Swim

About half of all university students have said they’ve used cannabis at least once, according to research from three Canadian universities. So, what does this mean for the normalization of cannabis use for youth and young adults?

Prof. Andrew Hathaway, of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has been researching cannabis use since the 1990s. He says cannabis use is not the deviant, addictive habit is has so often been portrayed as, but rather a mainstream phenomenon.

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