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Washington will squawk as loudly as it can if Ottawa comes anywhere close to legalizing the pot trade. But as Europe is learning, it may be easier to knock down rogue missiles than to beat back a consensus among allies and neighbors who think it is smarter to live with cannabis than to fight it.

--With reporting by Alex Brant-Zawadzki/Washington, Martha de la Cal/Lisbon, Steven Frank/Toronto, Nicole Gerard/Brussels, Nicholas Le Quesne/Paris, Thea Mac Ruairi/Amsterdam and Jane Walker/Madrid

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