Seven Key Things Trudeau’s Legalization Must Include

CANNABIS CULTURE – We now have a Prime Minister who has promised to legalize marijuana in Canada. But what will legalization look like?

Here are seven things the cannabis community wants to see happen before we consider prohibition to be truly over.

#7. Don’t increase penalties

In some of their campaign literature, the Liberals were promising to create “new, stronger laws, to punish more severely” people who sell cannabis to minors, or to anyone operating outside of their undefined new system.

Considering we already have Harper’s strict mandatory minimums for cannabis offences, we do not need to be punishing anyone “more severely” for anything related to cannabis.

The laws and penalties against selling cannabis to minors should be very similar to those relating to alcohol. The whole legalization system for cannabis should follow the wine model, not some new system that includes even more harsh punishments for cannabis.

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