I listened to her being interviewed today. She said she is still against weed cause it's dangerous, but the Liberals are gonna legalize anyway. I feel like puking every time I hear the cow's voice.
Rona Ambrose says the sooner we legalize pot and bring in regulations, the better
Vancouver, BC, Canada / News Talk 980 CKNW | Vancouver's News. Vancouver's Talk
CKNW News Staff
Posted: January 20, 2016 12:23 pm
| Last Updated: January 20, 2016 12:49 pm
Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose
Last year as Health Minister, Rona Ambrose made it clear that the Harper Government was not going to legalize marijuana, much less support municipalities regulating dispensaries.
Now, as interim leader of the Conservative party she seems to have accepted that the new government will legalize marijuana, but is more or less sticking with her position on marijuana and dispensaries that sell the drug, saying kids are at risk.
Ambrose says there was evidence dispensaries were selling to kids and no one was regulating the produce so no one knows what is in it.
She says hundreds of dispensaries have popped up now across the country.
But didn’t that happen under the Harper government’s watch?
“We of course said many times that we expected police to do their jobs, but there was a decision made. In other jurisdictions it didn’t happen so much, but here in Vancouver the decision was made locally at the municipal level to allow the dispensaries to move ahead. That was up to the municipal government.”
Now she says legalization should come with strong public health messaging telling kids about the dangers of marijuana.
”I hope that the faster they move on this the better, because the proliferation of pot dispensaries is quite large…and they’re unregulated, so the sooner they can move on that the better to protect kids.”