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Canadian MPs to Vote Again on Cannabis Bill, Rejecting Senate’s Amendments on Home Grows

Several debates continue to unfold as Canadian legislators seek to legalize marijuana.

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OTTAWA – The federal Liberal government is rejecting more than a dozen Senate amendments to its landmark law to legalize cannabis, including the upper chamber’s efforts to further limit – or ban outright – the ability to cultivate marijuana at home.

In a motion put before the House of Commons, the Liberals say they can’t support a Senate amendment that would allow provinces to ban home cultivation of marijuana, arguing that the bill already gives provinces and territories the ability to impose their own restrictions.

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The original legislation, once passed, would allow up to four marijuana plants per dwelling.

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Quebec and Manitoba have already chosen to prohibit homegrown weed, but the amendment would have erased the possibility of legal challenges to their constitutional authority to do so.

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