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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Canada: NDP MLAs heading to WA state on marijuana 'fact-finding mission' 🌿Canada: NDP MLAs heading to WA state on marijuana 'fact-finding mission'
BC’s NDP is planning a trip to Washington State to learn more about how well the legalization and regulation of marijuana is working out.
Mike Farnworth and Carole James are heading to Washington state.
“Prime Minister Trudeau made [legalization] a key election plank in his quest for victory, and I believe that it’s responsible for us here in BC to start addressing this issue and being prepared for when that actually happens,” says BC NDP leader John Horgan.
“How do Washington state officials and others try to ensure that children aren’t accessing this substance? How do they make sure that it’s appropriately regulated? Is the distribution system similar to other controlled substances or are there other mechanisms in place?
Horgan says the trip will be paid for out of the party’s caucus budget.
“We [are] given an amount of money to do research, to keep the government accountable,...
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