More than one-third of Canadians aged 18 to 44 have used cannabis within a year. On October 17, 2018, Canada’s recreational cannabis legalization law, the Cannabis Act, officially came into effect.
Canada has thus become the first among the seven major industrialized countries in the West to legalize recreational marijuana nationwide. There are currently more than 3,000 legal cannabis stores in Canada, and more than two-thirds of cannabis consumers purchase cannabis from the legal market. The Canadian government believes that through this law,. the government has legalized, strictly regulated, and restricted access to cannabis.