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A nuanced view of normalisation: Attitudes of cannabis non-users in a study of undergraduate students at three Canadian universities

Andrew HathawayDepartment of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Correspondence[email protected]
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Amir MostaghimDepartment of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada,
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Kat KolarDepartment of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, and
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Patricia G. EricksonDepartment of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, and
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Geraint OsborneDepartment of Social Sciences, University of Alberta, Camrose, Canada
Pages 238-246 | Received 04 May 2015, Accepted 21 Oct 2015, Published online: 30 Nov 2015

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