Legalize it, and Trudeau will supervise it : Just as Prohibition flopped for booze, criminalizing cannabis is a war without a cause

Politicians know how to harvest the low hanging fruit at election time.

Now, Justin Trudeau has sniffed out the low hanging cannabis on the campaign trail — and promised to legalize it.

 

It’s time, long past time. The Liberal leader can make up for the sins — or omissions — of his father in failing to decriminalize marijuana possession generations ago, when Pierre Trudeau ignored the recommendations of the 1973 Le Dain Royal Commission he created as prime minister.

In fairness to Trudeau the elder, it was a different time. In the decades since, Canada has decriminalized homosexuality and legalized gay marriage.

In this campaign, the NDP is proposing to decriminalize dope. The Liberals want to take it one step further by legalizing — regulating — marijuana for sale in pharmacies (much like booze,...

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