Here's the Conservative's stance on decriminalizing pot... :puuuuuuke:
When it comes to drugs, police officers and parents agree: we don’t need more of them on our streets. The increase in the production and distribution of hard drugs is well documented. And if we legalize drugs like marijuana, it will make it easier for our children to get hold of it.
That is why [the Harper] government is opposed to legalizing drugs -- especially because of the damage it can do to our cities and our communities because of increased addiction and crime.
Instead, we will get drugs off the streets, away from our children and clean up our communities by: Ensuring mandatory minimum prison sentences and large fines are given out to marijuana grow operators and drug dealers; Introducing a national drug strategy, including a nationwide awareness campaign to discourage our youth from getting hooked on drugs in the first place; And not re-introducing the Liberal government’s marijuana decriminalization legislation.
and now here is the Liberals...
The Liberal Party believes that possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use should be decriminalized. That is what we attempted to achieve while in government, and we continue to believe that decriminalizing such possession would be a more sensible drug policy for our young people and would allow for better uses of police resources.
