Criminal Code   as saying: The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people.... We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, prior to this, I worked as an employment specialist on behalf of youth at risk. One of the things that we found was that, ironically, some of them actually had drug convictions for possession of small amounts of marijuana on their criminal records. If we fast

Criminal Code   them to make their way forward in life, just like other Canadians. The Liberals previously set up a record suspension process for marijuana when it was legalized, but I have to point out that that process cleared the records of only 484 of the hundreds of thousands of people

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  There are some things that are just so high risk. We have age limits for alcohol, marijuana, illicit drugs and even driving because we know that children are highly vulnerable in this stage of development.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee   mental, emotional, physical and developmental stage. The courts apply a sliding scale to capacity, meaning that decisions that carry grave consequences require more scrutiny. In some cases, a total prohibition is necessary to avoid future harms, such as with marijuana, alcohol

Canadian Heritage committee  By banning the signs or stopping the selling of signs, we are not achieving our intent. Next door's door is open. It's like trying to ban marijuana. Today we have made it legal. We tried so long to ban it, and it's now legal. We need to stop the abuses of marijuana and we need

Justice committee  The answer is yes. The reason being is that I live beside a park, and ever since the law has been lax on marijuana, there has been a rise in criminal activity in the park. From my window, I see people using and dealing drugs. I see them speeding away while impaired

Justice committee  It depends on the circumstances. For example, before the arrival of mandatory minimums.... For example, take the production of marijuana with a mandatory minimum of six months. Oftentimes, new immigrants or people who come to the country without many resources will take

Human Resources committee   is the medical use of marijuana. I sat on a health and welfare trust fund where we were able to include medical marijuana as an expense that the plan would cover. [Technical difficulty—Editor] use went up like 60%, and opioid prescriptions went down by 80%. There are those things that I think

Small Business  . The United States is beginning to figure it out. It is not marijuana. We want to grow hemp. It is an incredible product. It can be used for many things. I am encouraging the parliamentary secretary, as I have many on that side, to get hemp out of health and into agriculture

Industry committee   in the border culture, and it took a lot of advertising. Businesses were doing it to educate the other sides, back and forth. Is that going to happen here? I haven't seen anything whatsoever, and that's a bit of a concern of mine. Even when we brought in marijuana in Canada, a riding like

Justice committee  , and marijuana was legalized, not decriminalized, but the sky did not fall when marijuana was legalized in Canada. If sex work were to be decriminalized in Canada, it doesn't mean that people are going to turn out and start working in the sex industry in greater numbers than they are right

Health   on Health and said that decriminalizing heroin and other street drugs was no answer to preventing deaths. She also said that the legalization of marijuana did not stop users from buying on the black market and that decriminalization still meant people went to the street to get

Public Safety committee  One of the most heartbreaking and hard cases I've ever dealt with was representing a young Black man who was charged with first-degree murder. He attended a house to steal some marijuana. It was one of the most tragic and heartbreaking cases I've ever seen. Around that time, I

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee   remember is marijuana, but I think there were other things. Would your proposal be to change the Indian Act and the First Nations Management Act in order to allow taxation in those other areas, and what areas would those be? Could you really do it by this summer? And who would have