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Flag for International Cannabis Day 2013 in Canada Getty -Harrison Ha
On October 17, the legalization of recreational cannabis use comes into force in Canada and raises both hopes and concerns. Decenalisation, legalization, prohibition, medicalization, for over a century, the use of cannabis is a subject that is debated around the planet and still today in France. The image of the joint smoked by hippies, long-haired and smug smile, leaving in their wake smoke swirls, certainly evokes the youth "baba cool" of the 1970s. At the same time in France, it was also the time when the prohibition of the consumption of hemp, considered as stupefying, was formalized by a law. Back in images and sound archives on the ground of the discord which reunites all the same currently 192 million followers in the world.