Canada: Blair's marijuana stance at odds with chiefs
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“Our position has not changed,” Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) spokesman Tim Smith said Monday.
No longer Toronto’s chief of police, and now a federal Liberal nomination hopeful, Blair’s position is clearly different than his chief of police brethren.
“I have seen merely criminalizing marijuana hasn’t been successful in keeping it out of the hands of kids, it hasn’t kept organized crime out of the business,” he told the CBC in Ottawa where he later shared the stage with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. “I think we can do better, through legalization and regulation, coupled with a strong public health response.”
But in 2013 at the CACP’s 108th conference in Winnipeg, which Blair attended, the chiefs adopted a resolution stating “the CACP does not...
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