Justin Trudeau And The Decriminalization Of Marijuana In Canada

In early 2016 recently elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that in the spring of 2017 there would be new legislation to decriminalise and regulate the sale and consumption of marijuana to adults. Reforming the laws on marijuana altogether. Almost 2 out of every 10 Canadians reported having consumed marijuana in the past year. The recreational use of marijuana was outlawed and made illegal in Canada in 1932; Canada was one of the first countries to ban the drug, 14 years before the United States.. Throughout the years there have been some advances in the movement to legalise marijuana altogether. Including many protests and rallies including a protest that sees thousands of Canadians smoking marijuana on the grass of parliament

Prosecuting these offenders is also a very expensive and time consuming process for the justice system. Decriminalizing
Gibson 2 marijuana would allow the canadian justice system to focus on the real crimes such as violent offences, human trafficking and sex crimes. Trudeau plans to legalize, regulate and tax the sale and consumption of marijuana to help keep it out of the hands of youth. Prohibition has enormous costs on the government and ultimately on taxpayers, in canada as well as internationally. There were 658,000 arrests for marijuana possession in 2012 compared with 256,000 for cocaine and heroin. Which means that there were more arrests in 2012 for marijuana than for heroin, cocaine and other “hard drugs” combined. Decriminalizing marijuana would save the government millions of taxpayers dollars. Also allowing them to focus on “hard drugs”. This is proof that taxpayers money is going more towards busting a teenager with a couple grams of marijuana when there are much worse drugs out there such as cocaine and heroin that cause real long term damage to

Not just the ones who smoke marijuana. If you look at the states in the United States that have fully legalized the recreational use of marijuana, more specifically the state of Colorado, there was so much tax revenue just from the sale of marijuana that for the first time ever there was a tax surplus. This surplus went back into the pockets of taxpayers as well as into community programs. One major program which was granted 8 million dollars is a program that teaches kids about the effects of marijuana on the developing brain and why they should not be using the drug at such a young age. These are just some of the benefits of legalizing marijuana for the community as a