{"id":26204,"date":"2015-11-17T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/justin-trudeau-begins-the-process-of-marijuana-legalization-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2015-11-17T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T00:30:00","slug":"justin-trudeau-begins-the-process-of-marijuana-legalization-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/justin-trudeau-begins-the-process-of-marijuana-legalization-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau Begins the Process of Marijuana Legalization in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada turned quite a few heads when the country introduced its newest Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/new-canadian-prime-minister-is-pro-cannabis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Trudeau<\/a> who publicly announced his intent to legalize cannabis as quickly as possible. It seems as though Canada&apos;s newest official is staying true to his word just weeks after his successful election. Today, Trudeau has officially issued a public mandate to&#xA0;Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould that lists the legalization and regulation of marijuana as a priority for the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/pm.gc.ca\/eng\/minister-justice-and-attorney-general-canada-mandate-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">letter<\/a>, Trudeau clearly outlines his cannabis goals: &quot;Working with the Ministers of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and Health, create a federal-provincial-territorial process that will lead to the legalization and regulation of marijuana.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He aims to reverse much of what former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who was firmly anti-cannabis during his time in office, had established. Primarily, Trudeau called for a reevaluation of sentencing reforms with the intent to reduce incarceration rates among the&#xA0;Indigenous Canadian population.&#xA0;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Prime Minister is setting the wheels in motion for cannabis legalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3036],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Justin Trudeau Begins the Process of Marijuana Legalization in Canada - Merry Jane<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/justin-trudeau-begins-the-process-of-marijuana-legalization-in-canada\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Justin Trudeau Begins the Process of Marijuana Legalization in Canada - 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