The Wait Will Be Worth It, Trudeau Tells Canada

Could cannabis be to Canada what France is to wine?

In a fascinating update on Canada’s path to cannabis legalisation, Justin Trudeau found himself fielding this very question at an economic summit in Toronto this Wednesday.

The Huffington Post have shared a clip from the event, where Canada’s much-lauded PM set the record straight on his plans for legalisation.

Speaking earlier in the summit, Alan Gertner, a medicinal cannabis entrepreneur, had made the case for a potential economic windfall brought about by legal pot.

In the aforementioned clip, Gertner claimed that ‘Canada [could] be America’s marijuana capital’, which prompted Trudeau’s interviewer to raise the question.

Trudeau, however, with prize winning poise, swept aside Gertner’s remarks, and, after offering what this author can only assume is a long overdue shout out to the virtues of Canadian wine, assured the audience that his government are more concerned with the safety of his...

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