After Upset Election, Canada’s New Leader Wants to Legalize Marijuana

‘Led by Justin Trudeau, Canada’s Liberal Party swept to an impressive victory in Monday’s elections.

The party has won enough seats to form a majority government by itself. The Liberals won 184 seats in the lower house of parliament. . They only need 170 seats to form a majority in the 338-seat lower chamber.

The election brings an end to nine years of Conservative rule, which, from a drug policy perspective, was absolutely regressive and reactionary. The Tories not only opposed marijuana legalization; they were committed to rolling out mandatory minimum sentences for some drug offenses, including pot cultivation, and they fought bitterly (and unsuccessfully) to shut down Vancouver’s supervised injection site for hard-core drug users. The Tories rejected harm reduction in favor of failed 20th Century drug policies.’

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