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James O’Connor is a journalist, the managing editor of the Brandon Sun newspaper. As you can see from the picture above, he was in the room when Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau visited a school earlier this week.
The kids were curious about Trudeau’s stand on pot. One of them asked him about it. Continue reading The things politicians say to kids about drugs …
In the interview in which we learned that Liberal leader Justin Trudeau had smoked marijuana “five or six times” in his life, including at least once while he was an MP, there was this paragraph and quote attributed to Trudeau:
Trudeau hopes to have a serious discussion with policy experts about legalizing weed this fall. Canadian taxpayers spend more than $500-million a year on enforcement and punishment related to marijuana convictions, he said.
“We are talking about 475,000 people since Stephen Harper has become prime minister who have criminal convictions because of marijuana,” the Liberal leader said. “Those are lives ruined.”
That was in an interview published Aug. 22.
On Aug 23, the Canadian Press moved a file with the following line: Continue reading Breaking down Trudeau's pot data and his anti-pot voting record
Earlier this week, Justin Trudeau was telling reporters that he had smoked pot perhaps “five or six times” in his life.
But in a 2010 video, Canada’s most well-known pot activist, Marc Emery said he had smoked “gaggers” with Trudeau “four or five times.”
Watch:
Asked this week about Emery’s claim, Trudeau said Emery had it wrong.
So how to settle this?
Continue reading Trudeau is right – "Embarrassed" pot activist says "I am wrong, wrong, wrong."