Reasonable Doubt: legal complications stand before Trudeau's plans for marijuana

ICYMI: Trudeau 2.0 swept to power with a new majority government on Monday evening (October 19).

Justin Trudeau made a number of lofty promises that are unprecedented in Canadian politics, should he actually follow through on them. That’s perhaps most evidence in his promises to legalize marijuana and to reform our first-past-the-post electoral system.

The former is probably good policy and good politics. Virtually every poll suggests that the majority of Canadians favour marijuana legalization. Law enforcement experts such as police, prosecutors, and former politicians, widely view the "war on drugs" (dating back to Nixon, who was the first to declare outright war - a curious parallel with our soon-to-be former PM's views on the matter) as an outright failure, the same way alcohol prohibition was in the US.

Legalizing the drug will divert law enforcement resources to more pressing matters, such as investigating violent, exploitative crimes and growing...

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