Today in Canada’s Political History: Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has marijuana on his mind
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was attending a youth meeting in Yukon on this date in 1970. Not surprisingly, the 15th PM was asked for his views on marijuana during his appearance. “Perhaps I shouldn’t go on this, but people who do it, I don’t pass judgement them any more than I judge a person who takes alcohol,” he said frankly.
Needless to say, marijuana was not legalized on Trudeau’s watch. That would come decades later when his son, Justin Trudeau, was Prime Minister of Canada.is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.
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