Marijuana - Liberal Party of Canada

[kristopher]

Marijuana - Liberal Party of Canada
https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/marijuana/


We will legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana.

Canada’s current system of marijuana prohibition does not work. It does not prevent young people from using marijuana and too many Canadians end up with criminal records for possessing small amounts of the drug.

Arresting and prosecuting these offenses is expensive for our criminal justice system. It traps too many Canadians in the criminal justice system for minor, non-violent offenses. At the same time, the proceeds from the illegal drug trade support organized crime and greater threats to public safety, like human trafficking and hard drugs.

To ensure that we keep marijuana out of the hands of children, and the profits out of the hands of criminals, we will legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana.

We will remove marijuana consumption and incidental possession from the Criminal Code, and create new, stronger laws to punish more severely those who provide it to minors, those who operate a motor vehicle while under its influence, and those who sell it outside of the new regulatory framework.

We will create a federal/provincial/territorial task force, and with input from experts in public health, substance abuse, and law enforcement, will design a new system of strict marijuana sales and distribution, with appropriate federal and provincial excise taxes applied.

Current news:

Health Canada changes medical marijuana regulations to allow home growing

The federal government said Thursday that it will allow medical marijuana patients to grow their own pot, a move viewed as a band-aid solution before broader legislation is introduced next year.

The decision creates uncertainty for Canada’s licensed medical marijuana producers, who are currently the only legal source of medical pot. However, it is not viewed as a game-changer for them, and some even see it as a business opportunity. Most stock prices in the pot sector declined on Thursday, but only modestly.

Health Canada announced that beginning Aug. 24, patients will be allowed to produce a “limited amount” of cannabis for their own purposes, or designate someone to grow it for them.....

Read more at: http://business.financialpost.com/news/agriculture/health-canada-changes-medical-marijuana-regulations-to-allow-home-growing

[StrictlyRockers]

1. Canada is taking a huge progressive step in the right direction on this issue

And it is sure to influence things in the US. Canada is our largest trading partner and the country that shares the longest border with us. Once we see how legalization helps their whole country rather than hurt it, just as it has in Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska, it will only be a matter of time before the US also legalizes it.

The DEA can dig their heels in all they want. They are obviously plugging holes in a dyke that is eventually going to burst. I'd give it ten years, at most, before we are going to pass federal legislation to deal with the patchwork of state laws we now have.

[YOHABLO]

2. Changing it from a class I to a class II would have been a step in the right direction in the U.S.

Also releasing those serving lengthy sentences for minimal use or sale would also be helpful. There has to be more behind the DEA's decision. Why is it the country right next door seems to have their shit together and we don't? I would say it's the conservative right here in the U.S.