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The missing election issue: What are we going to do about legal weed?

Legal, recreational toking is a little more than a year away, but all three party leaders say it’s ”too early” to offer a glimpse (let alone a “vision”) of where cannabis might be sold in Nova Scotia, who will sell it (public, private, or both kinds of vendors), how much it might cost (taxes included), or how new rules will be enforced to keep it out of the hands of under-aged users (and we don’t even know the legal provincial age yet).

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Don’t Mention The Weed…. Every day, politicians of all provincial parties add to the growing pile of promises: to improve health care, build more highways, stimulate the economy, and spend more on education. But one issue politicians are keeping stashed away in this lacklustre campaign is what their party will do, if elected, to regulate the…

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