What Should Canada's Legal Age For Recreational Marijuana Be?
On April 20 (fittingly enough), Canadian Health Minister Jane Philpott announced that legislation to legalize recreational marijuana use would be introduced by spring 2017. Now the speculation on what the government's cannabis regulations will look like have finally begun.
One of the most contentious issues will likely be the legal age. That's because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that he wants to legalize and regulate cannabis to prevent Canadian youth from accessing it. But he hasn't specified what the age restriction would be.
New Brunswick's justice and public safety minister would like to see the minimum age for consuming marijuana set at 21, which is the minimum age in legal U.S. jurisdictions.
Meanwhile, organizations such as the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) recommends restricting medical marijuana use to patients 25 or older because of dangers that cannabis could pose to developing brains. According to their...
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