How Canada's Current Approach To Legalization Is Harming Young Adults
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government came to power promising to legalize recreational marijuana use in order to eliminate the black market and thereby keep cannabis away from kids. Now the New Democratic Party is alleging that the government's delays on this file is actually endangering the wellbeing of younger Canadians - although young adults in this case, not underage youth.
The government plans to introduce a legalization bill to the House in 2017, after working with a task force and the nation's provinces and territories to develop regulations that will work for Canada's various provincial jurisdictions. In the meantime, they don't plan to repeal any marijuana laws, which means that people busted for simple possession could be imprisoned for a crime that could be off the books in a year.
So on June 13, NDP Justice Critic Murray Rankin introduced a motion to decriminalize cannabis immediately. While debating the motion...
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