Analysis Of Justin Trudeau's Legalization Of Recreational Marijuana In Canada

Canada’s legalization of Recreational Marijuana: A blunder by Trudeau’s government
"Canadians have spoken, you want a government with a vision and an agenda for this country that is positive and ambitious and hopeful. Well my friends, I promise you tonight, I will lead that government," said by the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This is a powerful and inspiring quote that said by the Canada Prime Minister but ironically, the new Canadian government is becoming the opposite of what Justin Trudeau promise because he and the government plans to make recreational marijuana use legal by July 1, 2018, nicely coinciding with Canada Day. For this legalization, the government of Canada claims that the prohibition of weed does not effectively prevent

In the opposite side, opponents argues that the legalization of cannabis will not affected the black market at all. After researching the reasons behind both positions, the conclusion is that the legalization of weed is a blunder that made by Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government. Legalizes recreational marijuana will not accomplish the purposes the government expect.
In the support side, the Canadian government claims that it is beneficial to legalizes marijuana under three main reasons: to kill Canada’s marijuana black market, to reduce access to cannabis by underage users, and to loosen the burden of the criminal justice system. According to the article “Justin Trudeau to Legalize Weed in Canada” written by Robbie Gramer, “The Liberal platform said legalization would keep the drugs “out of the hands of children, and the profits out of the hands of criminals” (Gramer 2017). From the words of the Liberal party, they want to

Unfortunately, it is just a good intention that will not comes true. Instead, the black market will not be affected under the policy of legalizing weed. Donald Macpherson, the executive director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition says, “There’s a huge, complex system out there operating in the world that has been delivering excellent product to people at reasonable prices for 40 years now” (Perkel 2017). This quote reveals that the black market has a advance system of selling marijuana to people. The illegal market has gained good reputation by selling weed for 40 years, which means that the user would rather purchase the drugs from the black market because it is more familiar and trusted to them. Therefore, the black market will not be affected by the policy due to its well developed trafficking system. There is also precedent that proves legal pot will not be a threat to the illegal market. “In Oregon, illegal marijuana still accounts for more than 35 per cent of the market. "The new system has clearly not replaced or even threatened, corner dealers either in Washington or Colorado, Tom James wrote in The Atlantic.” (Wente 2017). According to the quote, Oregon also implement to legalize marijuana, but still, the local black market still has a demand of more than 35 per cent to the drugs. Why