Revenue from tax on legal marijuana in Canada should go in part towards public education to teach young people about the risks of drugs, says Liberal MP Bill Blair. Blair, MP for Scarborough Southwest and Liberal point man on legalizing marijuana, revealed the federal tax proposal for legal marijuana on Friday. He said governments could raise roughly $1 billion a year from imposing tax on legal marijuana. That means some of the tax revenue raised should cover the costs of public education, he said. He said young adults buy marijuana from the same dealers regularly and have been doing so for some time, but he believes most will switch to legal marijuana once the government legalizes it.

Source: CBC News November 13, 2017 16:22 UTC