Consultation key to smooth road for changes to marijuana laws

With a federal Liberal majority, legalization of marijuana has moved from humorous rhetoric to an inevitable reality.

As many of us are still in post-election shock, we suffer from bias assimilation: the inability to separate how one views an elected official from the decisions that the person makes. That is, could this be a rational decision? It certainly is a departure from the tough-on-crime approach, which has traditionally transcended into votes.

Decriminalization of acts are often (or should be) benchmarked against whether the behaviour is sufficiently serious enough to warrant criminal sanctions, whether the act could be dealt with by other remedies, whether they inflict harm on others (or oneself), whether it is enforceable in practice, and whether or not the penalty is proportionate to the seriousness of the offence.

Although marijuana has held a criminal stigma in our society for many decades, criminalization of social usage does not fair...

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