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Mayor Rob Ford says Ottawa should consider decriminalizing marijuana and make “revenue” from it but that it won’t happen with the Conservatives in charge.

The mayor, who admitted to smoking “a lot” of marijuana last year (and a little crack cocaine), made the comments on his weekly appearance on the U.S. sports radio show “The Sports Junkies.”

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“I’ve questioned that too sometimes why wouldn’t [the Conservatives] at least decriminalize it and try to get revenue from it,” Ford said when prompted by the show’s hosts about marijuana laws.

“That probably won’t happen up here because we have a Conservative government,” the mayor said. “They’re very strict when it comes to marijuana and any other drugs — so it’s not going to happen here.

“But that’s a debate that has been going on for years up in Canada. We have medicinal marijuana so a lot of people that are sick use it but they won’t legalize it or decriminalize it so I don’t think they are going to ever do it unless the government changes. I don’t see the Conservative government ever letting that happen.”