Don’t ‘jump to conclusions’ on pot timing, federal public safety minister says
OTTAWA — People shouldn’t “jump to conclusions” about when they’ll be able to buy marijuana legally, as a key federal bill makes its way through Parliament, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says.
There will be an implementation phase that takes a “short period of time” after passage of the bill legalizing recreational marijuana use, Goodale said Wednesday.
But he wasn’t saying whether that means people will be able to legally smoke pot as of July, as many have come to expect.
“This is a major, major change in the law. That requires a lot of reorientation in the system,” Goodale told reporters.