PCs extreme anti-pot law a challenge to NDP's leadership

Newly-named Bill S-10 an expensive, draconian nightmare

The Penalties for Organized Drug Crime Act would guarantee minimum six-month mandatory sentences for anyone who grows more than five pot plants, with maximum sentencing now 14 years rather than the current 7 years. Traffickers of small amounts of marijuana will still be limited to 5 years in prison.




This anachronistic and ridiculously expensive legislation must be stopped in its tracks, and if the larger bill must go through, then the former Bill S-10 (now called Penalties for Organized Drug Crime Act) must be held back until the marijuana sections are revised or removed. Growing pot is not like making a batch of meth or speed, so why treat it that way?

It is time for the NDP to join the Green Party of Canada and other progressive Canadian forces, and call for complete legalization of cannabis. This way the government can regulate production and tax distribution, so pot growing will help us balance our budget, rather than sink further into the red, as harper's PCs are proposing we do.


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