Since the federal legalization of cannabis in 2018, a few provinces have held some differences in the law.
The federal government proposed that a household could grow up to 4 cannabis plants per household, but Manitoba, Nunavut and Quebec all set a provincial law that prohibited this.
After lobbying by pro-cannabis advocates, The NDP government is looking to amend this, allowing people to grow cannabis at home.
Premier Kinew has spoken on adjacent matters in the past, looking to loosen the rules on consuption in provincial parks saying “I think the (ban in) provincial parks, we’d take a look at, just because—let’s be realistic—people are smoking weed in provincial parks as it is right now,”.
His commitment to follow through was welcomed by Jesse Lavoie, an activist who lost a court battle against the ban last year.
Lavoie rejected the previous government’s concerns about safety, saying the concerns did not materialize when medical marijuana was legalized earlier.
A bill to enact this change is expected in the coming days, but it's not clear whether it will be passed into law in the near future.
