Canada to introduce legislation to make sale of marijuana legal
The Canadian government will soon introduce legislation
next year that would make the sale of marijuana legal. If enacted,
Canada would become one of the largest Western countries to allow
widespread use of the drug which is considered illegal in many parts of
the world. Medical use of marijuana is already legal and some have
insisted that legal marijuana would reduce stress on Canada's criminal
justice system.
Canadian Health Minister Jane Philpott pledged to keep
marijuana out of the hands of children and profits out of the hands of
criminals. According to her, the Government will work with law
enforcement partners to encourage appropriate and proportionate criminal
justice measures.
Bill Blair, a former Toronto police chief has been named by
Prime Minister - Justin Trudeau as the government's point person on
legalisation. According to Blair, the Government would control who it's
sold to, when it's sold and also how it's used in order to prevent
organised crime from having the opportunity to profit from it.
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