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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Legalized pot not likely to make Canada a haven for addicts and dealers 🌿Legalized pot not likely to make Canada a haven for addicts and dealers
Three days before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government delivered its Throne speech - and with it the first formal indication of the Liberals intention to legalize marijuana for recreational use - the Mounties were busting down the doors of three pot shops in Nanaimo, B.C.
RCMP Supt. Mark Fisher said the force was "compelled" to raid the shops after a grandmother complained about her 15-year-old granddaughter allegedly buying weed from an illegal storefront.
One of the stores remains defiant, denying the allegations and reopening the following day.
Trees spokesman Alex Robb said the raids "fly in the face of public opinion, and the stance of our newly elected federal government."
Meanwhile, a week earlier and a lot closer to home in Gatineau - which ranks second in the country in pot possession charges per capita - Justice Pierre Chevalier made headlines by dismissing charges against a local pot grower and...
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