Conservative Staffer Fired After Urging Canadian Senators to Delay Vote on Marijuana Legalization Bill

Cannabis Business Times
May 14, 2018, 11:10 am11 pts
OTTAWA—Senators are being encouraged to postpone a vote on a bill to legalize recreational cannabis by a now-former employee of the Conservative’s chief critic of the legislation. Sen. Claude Carignan said Friday he did not authorize Malcolm Armstrong, whom he’d hired on contract to advise him on the marijuana…

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