Cannabis has been legal in Canada since 2018 and yet the Marijuana Party — which was formed to champion legalization — is still running two candidates in this election.
“The Marijuana Party has been effectively dead. I’ve kept it barely alive by doing the minimum necessary to keep it registered,” Blair Longley, the party’s leader, told CBC News.
The party has shifted focus since 2018, raising concerns about how the government regulates pot.
“It’s just so rife with absurdities and psychotic BS … it’s so screwed up,” Longley said of the government’s regulatory system. He said that his party has been able to stay registered thanks to people who share those concerns and are willing to take out party memberships.
“[But] if it was only that issue, then I would have been out of this game a long time ago,” he said.
Longley said his main concern right now is …