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Cannabis to the rescue: the dark strange return of the legalization initiative

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The backdrop of the Covid-19 crisis, despite the early vulnerable signs of easing, might not seem the ideal context or timing in which to place the strange return of the legalizing of cannabis initiative but what do you know? It is just as a good time as any.  Indeed the declaration of the Prime Minister, on Europe’s Day(!) and during a press conference with the Head of the EU Delegation in Albania, that the majority is preparing the draft law for the legalization of cannabis for medical purposes caught many surprised. It caught the Ambassador so surprised, and rightly uncomfortable, that he had to issue a clarification right away that…

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