Tories wont confirm if they will keep cannabis leagal if they win the election

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  1. The story is from October.

  2. An examination of the rollout of this law (and other laws surrounding it) would only be prudent - thereā€™s a lot wrong with it.

  3. All current indications are that this genie canā€™t be put back in the bottle and the Tories know it would be political suicide to try to do so.

  4. Despite any fear-mongering, the cannabis issue will not save Trudeau in the coming election. He is currently the most hated Prime Minister in Canadian history.

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Brian Mulroney is on the BOD of Acreage Holdings, thereā€™s no way legalization gets pulled back at this point - why would they, the politicians awarded all the monopolies to their butt-buddies

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Indeed, they did. As disgusting as it is, at least it makes it very unlikely that cannabis will be outlawed again.

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as my friend from Montreal keeps telling me - Canada is the 1st FEDERAL government to legalize and thatā€™s an important milestone. Possession became legal, growing is legal federally and will be in Quebec once someone files a lawsuit, these are important gains even if the commercial market is not a free and open one.

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Ya thereā€™s just no way. Besides anything else if they made it illegal again I imagine it would leave the feds open to billions in liability from giant corps who rely on it (not to mention all the stockholders).

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The way I see it the conservatives just donā€™t want to lose the support who are against it by coming out in support cannabis legalization, so by not taking any stand on it they still keep the support of us conservatives who do support legalization and donā€™t lose the support of those who donā€™t.

Itā€™s all about politicsā€¦

As per the CTV ā€œNewsā€ (I use that term lightly) is extremely left leaningā€¦

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Bingo!

Why alienate a big chunk of your reliable voters by coming right out and saying youā€™re OK with legalization? That would be moronic, politically speaking.

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Which means they wonā€™t.

Follow the money.

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I would agree. Almost impossible to reverse it now.

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Question is, how far will they go exerting control while trying to appease the uber cons?

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Pot smokers are woke. Political suicide for cons to go this route. Truly Scheer could go to Peru and get high with some shamans until October and still win this election.

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I think there are far fewer social conservatives in Canada than there were even 20 years ago. I know a lot of conservatives, and the majority of them couldnā€™t care less about pot. A lot of them smoke it themselves. It isnā€™t like weed is just for Liberals.

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:heart: @cogitech because I ran out of likes in the trichome shots threadā€¦

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So Torie = Conservative or Liberal?

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Tory has always been conservative never liberal

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Where I come from Tory translates loosely to ā€˜six-toed, born-to-rule pony f**kersā€™

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And Grit translates to 2-faced, born-to-fail, children-f**kers.

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disagreeā€¦ his dad definitely has that title for privatizing the bank of canada - and brian mulroney was pretty terrible too, running a deficit for 100% of his 9 years in office

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The way i see it isā€¦go ask 10 random people if they have ever heard of Andrew Scheer. Go on Iā€™ll waitā€¦now the opposite of love is what?? No not hateā€¦indifference. People are indifferent to Scheer and hate Justinā€¦a lot of people have very strong feelings for Justinā€¦so ask yourself would you rather have people hate you or be indifferent to you?? Scheer is playing way to safeā€¦he cares way to much. Justin could careless and will win the election. Would i bet money on it yes i wouldā€¦everyone who hates Justin cant shut up about himā€¦no one talks about Scheerā€¦haha

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