OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t backing down from his government’s much-maligned timeline for legalizing marijuana, despite a growing chorus of calls from senators, Indigenous leaders and others to delay the plan for up to a year. Trudeau says the plan to make recreational pot legal by this summer will go ahead without delay. We’re going to bring in legalization as we’ve committed to this summer on schedule,” Trudeau said Thursday. Criminal organizations make billions of dollars a year in profits on the sale of marijuana,” Trudeau said. But some provinces have raised concerns about the legalization plans, particularly as they will apply to home cultivation of marijuana.

Source: National Post May 03, 2018 18:20 UTC