CANADA ELECTION 2015: Marijuana reform at stake
This election may decide whether Canada makes a historic leap toward marijuana reform or remains a legal battleground between cannabis advocates and a resistant federal government.
Under the federal Conservatives, Ottawa has long argued pot is dangerous, unproven as a medicine, and a serious risk to youth if legal access grows.
The government has only allowed possession by authorized medical marijuana users after courts ruled in 2000 they have a right to reasonable access.
Since then, tens of thousands of Canadians became approved users and many got federal permits to grow it themselves.
Cities grew anxious about the explosion of often unsafe legal grow-ops in their midst.
That was one reason the Conservatives tried in 2014 to outlaw home growing of medical pot and force users to buy only via mail order from a new group of approved commercial producers.
Corporate growers have rushed to...
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