Canada Federal election 2015: the parties' stances on marijuana

Who doesn’t like B.C. bud? It’s a big deal in the province, home to a significant number of both legal and illegal growers, and to people like the Prince of Pot himself, Marc Emery.

In a poll earlier this summer, Insights West found 67% of British Columbians supported the legalization of marijuana in Canada — only 7% thought pot should always be illegal without exception.

There was so much interest in the herb locally that at one point, half of Health Canada’s 40,000 patients under the old marijuana access regulations were in B.C.

Even today, the province’s six licensed producers — the highest count next to Ontario’s 14 — indicates the continued interest in cannabis.

On the illegal side, according to RCMP data, more than 19,000 plants were seized in properties around B.C. — from Surrey to Quesnel — between November 2014 to February this year. These are just the...

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