‘Impossible’: Senior Police Officials Tell MPs They Won’t Be Ready for Legal Cannabis

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MPs on House of Commons health committee conduct Day 2 of hearings on Bill C-45.

Senior Canadian police officials told MPs studying the government’s marijuana legalization legislation that police won’t be ready to enforce new laws by next summer, and they are now asking the government for more time.

The government has vowed to legalize the drug by July 1, 2018, and introduced a bill in the House of Commons last spring to do just that.

“If legislation is ready to go July 2018, policing will not be ready to go Aug. 1. It’s impossible,” said Rick Barnum, deputy commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police.

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Brennan MacDonald – CBC News – Sep 12, 2017.

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