As well, a majority of Canadians support legalizing marijuana, according to a recent poll from NRG Research Group.
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The new rules generally follow the recommendations of a federal task force chaired by Anne McLellan, a former justice minister.
Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, will set the minimum age to purchase marijuana at 18, but provinces can choose to set higher minimum ages. Individual households will be permitted to grow no more than four plants.
Currently Growing or smoking pot is illegal in Canada, until it for medical objective and has a prescription to support the argument.
But marijuana advocates have said they’ve felt cheated, claiming Trudeau’s administration has been stricter than previous conservative ones.
“While moving away from cannabis prohibition is long overdue, we may not anticipate every nuance of future policy; after all, our society is still working out issues related to the regulation of alcohol and tobacco. We have very strong public health programs to make sure people are aware of the harms of those products”. But in a statement the government said, the government is committed to introducing the legislation on recreational marijuana in this spring. In 2015, the Liberal Party pledged to “legalize and regulate” marijuana if Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister.
“Until Parliament repeals the law, it’s the law of the land”, Blair said.
According to CBC, the liberals will introduce a piece of legislation in April to begin the process of legalizing and regulating the “weed”. “It doesn’t matter how much time you have because it will never be enough”.
Be proactive – Use the “Flag as Inappropriate” link at the upper right corner of each comment to let us know of abusive posts. For kids up to age 25, the brain is still developing. “We have to realize that we won’t have enough police officers trained by next year”.
But the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce estimated tax revenues could reach up to $Can5 billion or more if added tourism revenues are taken into account.
Larsen said even with legislation in place, change will be slow.
At the beginning of March, Justin Trudeau renewed the Liberal’s promise to decriminalize cannabis.
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“Decriminalization doesn’t achieve any of the public goal aims of reducing the social or health harms of marijuana use”, the Scarborough-Southwest Liberal MP said. “It facilitates the criminal market”.
