Trudeau’s arresting choice on legalized marijuana

In an interview conducted with the Toronto Star soon after he was named the Trudeau government’s point man on the proposed legalization of marijuana, Liberal M.P. Bill Blair was asked the obvious question and provided a succinct, straight up reply.

No. He had never smoked weed and in fact had never consumed any illegal drug, despite having had plenty of opportunities to do so over the course of his previous career.

The former chief of police of Toronto (and perceived nemesis of then mayor Rob Ford, whose stand on the consumption of illegal drugs is a matter of international record), Blair said his dad was a cop and while growing up he didn’t want to disrespect his father’s values. And Blair added that even after he, too, became a police officer and wound up working on the force’s drug squad, he simply never had the urge to sample any of the wares sold by the people...

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