Canadian Prime Minister Sets Legal Weed Into Motion

While the United States government continues to sandbag the issue of nationwide marijuana reform, the newly elected Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has already set into motion the procedures necessary to bring down prohibition in the northern nation.

On Friday, Trudeau fired off a mandate letter to Justice Minister and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, which reveals his eagerness to put Canada’s extensive history of pot prohibition in the rear view. With clear-cut instruction, the Prime Minister ordered his top legal hammer to join forces with other department heads to “create a federal-provincial-territorial process that will lead to the legalization and regulation of marijuana.” 

By all accounts, it seems that Trudeau is working diligently to make good on his campaign promise to legalize marijuana “right away” across the nation. After all, the move to “legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana” was all wrapped up in the official...

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