Canada: Bill Blair Tries To Clear Up 'Confusion' On Liberals' Marijuana Legalization Plan

A top Conservative accused the new government on Thursday of seeking to give children access to marijuana — mere moments after a Liberal MP brushed aside an NDP call to immediately decriminalize the drug.

The talk of cannabis and confusion was so strong in question period that Bill Blair, the parliamentary secretary to the minister of justice said a "hazy fog" had descended over the place.

But Blair, a former Toronto police chief who's now the point man on the legalization file, was pretty perplexing, too.

NDP MP Anne Minh-Thu Quach rose to highlight that a Federal Court judge in Vancouver ruled, a day earlier, that medical marijuana patients are entitled to grow their own marijuana.

"My question is simple, will the minister of justice respect this decision?" she asked.

Blair said he wanted to "assist" Quach and clear up confusion by reminding her that the ruling only concerned......

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