1. As a review from two University of Toronto researchers found last year, Black, Latino, and First Nation people are still arrested for cannabis at rates much higher than whites. And this is after legalization. 2. Blair was not concerned too much about the people he used to put in jail for weed, who do not enjoy what fruits legalization offer. 3. What Blair did do was add more crime. Handing a joint to someone under 18 can lead to a years-long prison term — a punishment much stricter than handing them a beer. 4. Though possibly as many as 250,000 people have cannabis offences on their records for which they’re eligible to be pardoned, getting a pardon is so expensive and time-consuming that only about 400 people have secured one, as CTV reported.
