Cannabis legalization a Green ideal

The benefits of legal and controlled recreational weed outweigh prohibition, but the effects on vulnerable populations and the environment should be taken into account.

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor should work with the provinces to promote safe cannabis-use programs for schools, writes Daniel Green.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DANIEL GREEN

January 16, 2019

The Green Party of Canada was the first federal party to advocate for the legalization of cannabis. In our view, criminalization only helped organized crime to reap benefits while using marijuana to introduce young Canadians to harder and more dangerous drugs. In 1998, the Green Party endorsed poli...

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