Men, people aged 18-34 and cannabis users were the most common respondents to recent online consultations. When it comes to crafting Canada’s plans to legalize marijuana, there’s one group that seems to have a lot to say: young men who use pot.
That’s who responded to the government’s online consultation in droves, according to the vice-chair of Canada’s marijuana task force, Dr. Mark Ware.
He broke down the numbers as part of his talk at the Vancouver Lift Cannabis Expo earlier this month, noting that particularly when it comes to age, the response was “interesting because this is not typically a group that is heavily engaged politically.”
The online consultations were held between June 30 and Aug. 29. Ware told his audience there had been some 28,000 responses. Previously, the task force had pegged the number of responses higher — at 30,000.
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Catherine Cullen – CBC News – Sep 30, 2016.
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