Canada: Where's the weed? Why marijuana wasn't in the Liberal budget
Marijuana advocates expecting some mention about legalized pot in Tuesday’s federal budget were left high and dry.
Despite being a cornerstone of the Liberal election campaign, there has scarcely been a mention about legalizing weed from the party since it took power five months ago.
And it wasn’t in Tuesday’s budget, despite the popular position that legalization could be a cash cow used to offset the government’s $30-billion deficit.
In fact, the drug isn’t factored into any Liberal projections and the word marijuana did not appear once in the entire budget document.
So what gives?
Well, it turns out legalization might not be as easy as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thought when candidate Trudeau first floated the idea during a visit to Kelowna, B.C., back in 2013.
First and foremost, the concept affects three major international treaties that Canada is a part of: The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, the Convention on...
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