Two speakers debate cannabis decriminalization. Speaker B argues that regulation in the Netherlands and Britain shows benefits: known potency and fewer contaminants lead to better health outcomes, countering concerns that decriminalization alone would increase consumption.
If you decriminalize, let's say, cannabis in Romania, let's say without proper education, people will think that, wait, if it's decriminalized, if it's not sentenced for a penalty for using.
Cannabis, it's.
Mean, it's not dangerous anymore. So let's consume it. I mean, people think that decriminalizing is going to lead to more consumption of it.
Well, that didn't happen in the Netherlands, and I don't think it would happen in Britain. And that's because there is so much use, so much illegal use. The markets are saturated. The benefit of decriminalization is that people know what they're getting. They can get cannabis of the right mixture, the right concentration, free from contaminants, and that then leads to better health outcomes.