Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may favour selling marijuana at the same place you buy your favourite bottle of scotch, but that combination doesn’t sit well with at least one province as well as some public health officials.
Legalizing pot was a Liberal election pledge, one Trudeau pitched as way to make communities safer. He says government regulation of pot sales would hurt organized crime and keep the drug away from kids.
In an interview with Montreal news site La Presse, Trudeau explained why he thinks liquor stores could be an appropriate place for Canadians to buy the drug.
“If adults can freely buy marijuana in places like the SAQ [Quebec’s provincially run liquor stores], pushers will no longer have the capacity to sell it to adults and only selling it to young people will be both risky and less profitable,” he told the newspaper.
Catherine Cullen – CBC News – Feb 11, 2016.
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