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Margaret Trudeau once said that quitting marijuana helped improve her mental health, but she stands behind her prime minister-designate son’s plan to legalize pot, which she says is a “whole different issue.”
In an interview with CTV Canada AM co-host Marci Ien, Justin Trudeau’s mother seemed taken aback when asked about her previous comments on marijuana.
At a mental health conference in 2007, Trudeau said that her battle with mental illness involved completely giving up marijuana, which she started smoking at a young age.
“Did I say that?” she asked, when Ien referred to her prior statements Wednesday.
Trudeau said she still stands by the comments she made years ago, but that Justin Trudeau’s pledge to legalize marijuana is “a whole different issue.”
She said she had been “very pro-active” about getting healthy at the height of her struggle with mental illness, and that involved staying away from...
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