Surprise! Rona Ambrose Changes Her Mind On Legalization

Rona Ambrose, Leader of Canada's Official Opposition, has turned over a new leaf.

For years, and as recently as a year-end interview with the CBC in December 2015, the interim leaderof the Conservative Party warned Canadians of the dangers surrounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's plans to legalize cannabis nationwide:

"It's one thing to decriminalize marijuana. It's another to legalize it in an environment where every day we're receiving more evidence that it's very harmful to young people."

Back then, it seemed like she would fight tooth-and-nail to prevent legalization from happening.

But the opposition leader had a different message about her stance on legalization during an interview with Simi Sara of Vancouver's CKNW on Jan. 20:

"I hope that the faster they [the Liberals] move on this [legalization], the better because the proliferation of pot dispensaries is quite large. So it's moved now not just in Vancouver but across

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