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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Bill Blair backs legalization of marijuana, defends carding as he seeks Liberal seat 🌿Bill Blair backs legalization of marijuana, defends carding as he seeks Liberal seat
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“In the regulation of marijuana, then you can control who it is sold to, where it is sold and when it is sold. You can control the price. You can tax the thing,” Blair said during an interview on Global’s The Morning Show Thursday morning.
“You can make sure the decision to not sell it to a 14-year-old is left to a responsible adult, not some gangster in a stairwell.”
Blair, who is currently seeking the federal Liberal nomination in the riding of Scarborough Southwest, said using the criminal model to prohibit the use and trafficking of marijuana isn’t working.
“If you only use the criminal model, quite frankly you can fail,” Blair explained. “If the only tool you got is a...
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