Canadian
President Justin Trudeau seeks to legalise marijuana however it takes.
Obviously, he's using regulation versus banning and the procurement of
marijuana in the black market. During an economic conference in Canada last
Wednesday, he said:
"Look,
our approach on legalising marijuana is not about creating a boutique industry
or bringing in tax revenue. It's actually based on two very simple principles:
The first
one is, young people have easier access to cannabis now in Canada more than
they do in just about any other country in the world. Of 29 different countries
studied by the UN, Canada was number one in terms of underage access to
marijuana.
"And
whatever you may think of studies about marijuana and cannabis being less
harmful than alcohol or even cigarettes, it is still bad for the developing
brain and we need to make sure it's harder for underage Canadians to access
marijuana.
"The
other piece of it is there are billions upon billions of dollars flowing into
the pockets of organised crime, street-gangs and gun-runners due to the illicit
marijuana trade. If we can get them to a more regulated fashion we can reduce
the amount of criminal activity profiting from these and its offshoots into
other criminal activities."
According
to Trudeau, Canada "could be to Cannabis as France is to wine",
encouraging the country's top entrepreneurs and innovators to think of ways to
proliferate the about-to-boom Cannabis trade in the country.
Trudeau
said his primary concern is the safety of children often dragged into the world
of Cannabis and its darker areas.
