Will Canada be able to fully legalize and regulate marijuana by July?
Prime Minister Justin Tredeau vowed to legalize marijuana nationwide by next summer. It hasn’t been that easy
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Canada is set to become the first industrialized nation to legalize and regulate marijuana from production to consumption by next July, but increasingly, Canadians are wondering: What’s the hurry? The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pressing ahead with legislation to legalize cannabis, a move that a majority of the Canadian public supports. But stakeholders such as police chiefs and psychiatrists are urging caution and even delay, worried that a rush to legalization will encourage consumption among young people and increase the incidence of impaired driving.