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Feb 2016
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Ep.41 - Legal Weed is Bad for Poor Peopl...

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Canada has had a marijuana industry for a long time. It just hasn’t always been legal. People in the business have ended up in prison, barred from crossing the border or denied future job prospects.

 

Now that the Liberals are planning to legalize weed, what will happen to those people?

 

Andray talks to Liberal MP for Beaches-East York Nathaniel Erskine-Smith and criminal defence lawyer John Struthers. 

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