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{
"time": "2009-03-26 16:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Serge M\u00e9nard (Marc-Aur\u00e8le-Fortin, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1376126\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, I want to provide a little history lesson for the previous speaker.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1376127\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> I am old enough that I had never heard of marijuana when I started practising law in 1966. I heard of it when I became a crown prosecutor. At the time, the marijuana grown here was not very strong at all. It did not have any THC, the active ingredient.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1376128\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> I saw the marijuana phenomenon begin around 1966 and continually increase in the 1970s. All the marijuana consumed in Canada came from elsewhere.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1376129\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> And what was the minimum sentence for importing marijuana? Seven years in prison. I saw people sent up for seven years. The time came when that just did not make any sense and they stopped doing it. But I saw people sent up. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1376130\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Do the members not think that seven years was enough to be dissuasive? And if seven years was not enough, does this not prove that prison is not dissuasive. People do not even know what they are risking.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1376126\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, \u00e0 l'orateur pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, je vais faire un petit rappel historique.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1376127\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Moi, je suis assez vieux que, lorsque j'ai commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 pratiquer le droit, je n'avais jamais entendu parler de marijuana. C'\u00e9tait en 1966. J'en ai entendu parler quand je suis devenu procureur de la Couronne. Et, \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque, la marijuana qui poussait ici n'avait aucune puissance. Elle ne contenait pas de THC, l'\u00e9l\u00e9ment actif.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1376128\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> J'ai vu le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne de la marijuana commencer autour de 1966 et augmenter continuellement dans les ann\u00e9es 1970. Toute la marijuana consomm\u00e9e au Canada venait d'ailleurs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1376129\" data-originallang=\"fr\"> Savez-vous quel \u00e9tait le minimum pour importation de marijuana? Sept ans de prison. J'en ai vu partir, des gens, pour sept ans. \u00c0 un moment donn\u00e9, cela n'avait pas de bon sens, on a cess\u00e9 d'appliquer cela, mais j'en ai vu partir, des gens. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1376130\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Ne croyez-vous pas que c'\u00e9tait dissuasif, sept ans? Et si sept ans, ce n'\u00e9tait pas dissuasif, n'est-ce pas la preuve que \u00e7a ne dissuade pas? Les gens ne savent m\u00eame pas ce qu'ils risquent.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2009/3/26/serge-menard-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/serge-menard/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1492/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "2679752",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Controlled Drugs and Substances Act",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2009/3/26/",
"related": {
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}
}