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I will bet you a sack of weed that Justin Trudeau will not deliver before the next election on his promise to legalize marijuana.

This being Canada, we can’t just delete marijuana offences from the Criminal Code. That would be too easy. No, we also must create a huge, new apparatus and bureaucracy to regulate and restrict marijuana, as Trudeau has also promised to do. As to what form all of this will take, he has not given, I suspect, a moment’s thought.

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He, therefore, will appoint some kind of commission to study the matter, to travel to Colorado and Alaska and Holland to see how they do it there, to consult with all the interested parties and then to make recommendations on how to proceed. That will take years.

Historically, the Liberal policy on marijuana, and quite a few other things, has been to do nothing while trying to appear progressive.

Pierre Trudeau did more or less the same thing way back in 1969 by appointing what then was called the Le Dain Commission to look into the non-medical use of drugs. Extensive public hearings brought to the podium such expert witnesses as John Lennon, who, sadly, is not around this time to repeat his testimony that marijuana is nothing to be afraid of.