Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2015-06-02 10:55:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Libby Davies",
        "fr": "Mme Libby Davies"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4132072\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, that is the fourth time that the member has not gone through the Chair. I would hope someone with his experience would know the respectful way to debate in this House.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4132073\" data-originallang=\"en\">Yes, I am somewhat familiar with what is going on in Colorado. In fact, I was there a year ago as part of a conference, where we heard directly from Colorado officials from the Governor's office. They have a special law enforcement unit only for marijuana that was very impressive, so I do have some knowledge. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4132074\" data-originallang=\"en\">The fact is that their approach for legalization has only been in operation for about a year, so I am not surprised to hear that there are still issues that they are working out.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4132075\" data-originallang=\"en\">However, let me say this: the member is cherry-picking. I am sure that there have been youths who have been harmed by marijuana, but let us put that in relation to prescription drugs and the number of people who have died from so-called legal prescription drugs. This is all a relative debate. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4132076\" data-originallang=\"en\">Rather than cherry-picking and saying that this happened to two youths or whatever it might be, as tragic as that is, let us learn from what is happening in Colorado or in Washington State. Let us focus on the need to have a made-in-Canada public-health-based approach to marijuana use that has the proper oversight and regulations to actually protect our young people while ensuring that there is not criminalization and that we bring forward a modernization of our law as it pertains to marijuana. Why would the government not do that?</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4132072\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, c'est la quatri\u00e8me fois que le d\u00e9put\u00e9 omet de s'adresser \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence. J'aurais pens\u00e9 que quelqu'un de son exp\u00e9rience conna\u00eetrait la fa\u00e7on respectueuse de d\u00e9battre dans cette enceinte.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4132073\" data-originallang=\"en\">Oui, je connais assez bien la situation au Colorado. D'ailleurs, je suis all\u00e9e dans cet \u00c9tat l'ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re pour assister \u00e0 un colloque o\u00f9 nous avons entendu des repr\u00e9sentants du bureau du gouverneur. Le Colorado dispose d'une remarquable unit\u00e9 sp\u00e9ciale charg\u00e9e de l'application de la loi uniquement en ce qui concerne la marijuana. Je peux donc affirmer que je poss\u00e8de une certaine connaissance de ce qui se passe l\u00e0-bas.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4132074\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je tiens \u00e0 faire remarquer que la politique du Colorado en mati\u00e8re de l\u00e9galisation de la marijuana n'est en place que depuis un an environ. Je ne suis donc pas \u00e9tonn\u00e9e que l'\u00c9tat n'ait pas fini de r\u00e9gler tous les probl\u00e8mes. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4132075\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je dirai toutefois ceci: le d\u00e9put\u00e9 ne retient que les aspects qui lui conviennent. Je suis convaincue que des jeunes ont subi des pr\u00e9judices \u00e0 cause de la marijuana, mais si on compare celle-ci aux m\u00e9dicaments d'ordonnance, qui ont caus\u00e9 bien des d\u00e9c\u00e8s, malgr\u00e9 le fait que ce sont des drogues l\u00e9gales, on constate que ce d\u00e9bat est relatif. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4132076\" data-originallang=\"en\">Au lieu de retenir seulement certains aspects et de parler de ce qui est arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 deux jeunes, par exemple, aussi tragique cette situation soit-elle, nous devons tirer des le\u00e7ons de ce qui se passe au Colorado et dans l'\u00c9tat de Washington. Concentrons-nous sur l'\u00e9laboration d'une approche propre au Canada en ce qui concerne la marijuana, une approche ax\u00e9e sur la sant\u00e9 publique qui pr\u00e9voit des mesures de surveillance et une r\u00e9glementation ad\u00e9quates pour bien prot\u00e9ger nos jeunes. Parall\u00e8lement, faisons en sorte que ceux qui consomment de la marijuana ne soient pas trait\u00e9s comme des criminels et modernisons les lois relatives \u00e0 la marijuana. Pourquoi le gouvernement n'est-il pas pr\u00eat \u00e0 agir ainsi?</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2015/6/2/libby-davies-7/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/libby-davies/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/2499/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "8726585",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Routine Proceedings",
        "fr": "Affaires Courantes"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Committees of the House",
        "fr": "Les comit\u00e9s de la Chambre"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Health",
        "fr": "Sant\u00e9"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2015/6/2/",
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