Conservatives: Update pot policy or risk looking like prudes in poorly fitting blue suits

The party has to deal with this issue in a Modern-Family not Leave-it-to-Beaver kind of way.
A worker at Tweed Marijuana Inc. tends to pot plants in 2014. Conservatives could spell out how money derived from the sale of marijuana could be directly reinvested in Canada, says Tim Powers.
OTTAWA—Well, it didn’t happen like the Conservatives said it would! Remember leading into the last election campaign those Conservative Party of Canada ads that all but suggested Justin Trudeau and his Liberals would be peddling dope on a corner near you? So far, as best we can tell, none of th...

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