MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION

Highlights of a Senate committee report Wednesday recommending that Canada
legalize the use of marijuana and hashish:

- - Marijuana and hashish should come under a regulatory system for
production and sale under licence for legal use by any Canadian resident
over 16.

- - Looser rules for the use of medical marijuana should provide easier access.

- - The law should be changed for those who drive after using both alcohol
and marijuana, with blood-alcohol limits lowered to 0.04 per cent in such
cases.

- - The government should erase the criminal records of 300,000 to 600,000
Canadians convicted of simple possession of marijuana.

- - The government should appoint a national adviser on psychoactive substances.

- - The government should call a conference of the provinces, municipalities
and other interested parties to set the ground rules for legal marijuana.

- - The government should finance research on drugs and on prevention and
treatment programs, financed by taxes on the sale of legal marijuana.