CP: Tories may revive minimum pot sentences as part of tough-on-crime agenda

[tuvor]

OTTAWA - The Tories are poised to revive a bill that would impose mandatory-minimum sentences on people convicted of growing small numbers of pot plants.

The Conservative government will re-introduce its drug bill this week in the Senate, as part of its continued re-tabling of tough-on-crime legislation that died when the last Parliament was prorogued.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson dropped broad hints Sunday that the new legislation would revive a controversial provision — a mandatory six-month sentence for people convicted of growing as few as five pot plants.

The Senate legal and constitutional affairs committee altered

the Conservative bill in December raising the minimum-sentence provision to convictions for 200 plants, while preserving a judge's discretion for lesser transgressions.

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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/tories-may-revive-minimum-pot-sentences-as-part-of-tough-on-crime-agenda-92625814.html

[daleo]

1. Will it apply to ex-Conservative MP's?

Seems doubtful.

[ZeitgeistObserver]

2. Plants are dangerous. Guns are not.

Remember that. :)

[Bragi]

3. People get the government they deserve /nt