CRIM 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Premiership Of Stephen Harper, Harm Reduction, Victimless Crime
7 Sep 2016
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How has the discourse on harm, safety, and public health been used to frame legal and rights issues around drug control. In 2014: 24,000 people were charged with simple possession, mostly adults, 5500, trafficking, 55% of drug offences are for possession of marijuana. Considerable jurisdictional differences some places more / less likely to be charged for possession: highest saskatchewan, territories, lowest maritimes. Estimate a million canadians have a marijuana criminal record. Most support pro-pot legislation treat like alcohol, regulated by government, quality control. Bc most pro-pot (alberta / quebec lowest support) 33% wants possession of small amounts decriminalized, leading to a fine rather than criminal record. Trudeau kids find it easier to buy marijuana than cigarettes and beer. Value of bc marijuana purchases at around half a billion dollars each year. Retail cost to be about 7. 4$ per gram. Argument take this money out of black market, organized crime; regulation allows government to generate tax revenue.
