Canada Senate votes to legalise pot

Ottawa: Canada’s Senate passed a law legalising recreational marijuana, moving it closer to becoming the first member of the Group of Seven nations to legalise the production, sale and consumption of the drug. Bill C-45, or the Cannabis Act, passed the Senate with 52 votes for, 30 against and one abstention. The Cannabis Act will now go back to the House of Commons, which passed the bill in November 2017 but needs to sign off on changes made by the Senate. Legalising weed was a 2015 campaign promise of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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