e decriminalization of marijuana because they felt the policy of imprisoning people for marijuana possession lead to disrespect for the law among young people, and was only randomly enforced (The Church). They also said there was no link between the use of marijuana and an increased risk of hard drug use except in a very tiny minority of cases. They said the criminalization of marijuana makes its association with hard drugs even more likely.
On December 5, 2002, the Canadian Justice Minister Martin Cauchon announced that he was planning to proceed with the decriminalization of marijuana possession in Canada early in 2003 (Stock). This was followed by an announcement by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on April 30, 2003, that the legislation decriminalizing possession of marijuana in Canada would soon be announced (PM). Protestors against the criminalization of marijuana held a Million Marijuana March in Prague in 2003 as part of a 170-city international protest (Hrobsky). In Czechoslovakia, possession of more than "a small amount" of marijuana is illegal,
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