A year after Canada introduced the legal, recreational cannabis market, the “vibrant” black market for marijuana remains a problem, says the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.
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Kyla Lee, founder of the Canadian Impaired Driving Lawyers Association, has been monitoring the impaired driving caseload and said there hasn’t been a marked increase in cannabis-impaired driving since legalization.
Under the new impaired driving law, police can demand a breathalyzer test from any driver pulled over for violating traffic laws or at a check stop.
“When this legislation was introduced, and as we were approaching legalization, I was really critical … of what the police might do with the new powers that were given to them,” she said, adding police have been using those expanded powers “in a very appropriate way.”
“I don’t see any systemic overuse of their authority when it comes to impaired driving investigations,” she added. “And that gives me a lot of comfort as a defence lawyer and as a citizen.”
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