Gov’t consults with U.S. on drug strategy
Neil Boyd, a criminologist at Simon Fraser University, said U.S. interest in Canada’s tougher drug plans is no surprise.
“The Harper government favours a U.S.-style approach to drug problems, which is to lock more people up and don’t treat it as a health problem, treat it as a criminal law problem of morality,” Boyd said. “That’s very much at odds with what’s going on in Europe and there’s really no good evidence to suggest that it’s going to be terribly useful.”
This is nothing really new. One recalls back in 2003 when Canada tried to decriminalize and America swooped down on that legislation pretty quickly. I read this and worry about Marc Emery.
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