El primer ministro canadiense defiende la legalización del cannabis

El primer ministro canadiense, Justin Trudeau, presentó en una conferencia sobre economía unos convincentes argumentos a favor de legalizar el cannabis. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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Christopher Ingram - Independent

"Look, our approach on legalising marijuana is not about creating a boutique industry or bringing in tax revenue, it's based on two very simple principles

The first one is, young people have easier access to cannabis now, in Canada, than they do in just about any other countries in the world. [Of] 29 different countries studied by the U.N., Canada was number one in terms of underage access to marijuana. And whatever you might think or studies seen about cannabis being less harmful than alcohol or even cigarettes, the fact is it is bad for the developing brain and we need to make sure that it's harder for underage Canadians to access marijuana. And that will happen under a controlled and regulated regime.

The other piece of it is there are billions upon billions of dollars flowing into the pockets of organised crime, street gangs and gun-runners, because of the illicit marijuana trade, and if we can get that out of the criminal elements and into a more regulated fashion we will reduce the amount of criminal activity that's profiting from those, and that has offshoots into so many other criminal activities. So those are my focuses on that."

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