
“The youth wing of Canada’s third-ranked Liberal Party said in a statement the result of the referendums in Tuesday’s US presidential election ‘is an important first step and inspiration to activists in Canada who want to see Canada embrace a smart drug policy.’ ‘The citizens of Washington and Colorado are sending a clear message to the world today: prohibition isn’t working,’ the group’s spokesman David Valentin said in a statement. Valentin and others argued that Canada was losing billions of dollars in potential revenue from taxing marijuana sales while ‘wasting’ money on enforcement of drug laws.”
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