Despite cannabis being legal in Canada since 2018, the Marijuana Party remains active, running two candidates. Party leader Blair Longley expresses frustration with the government's regulatory system, calling it absurd. He fights for electoral financing reforms, arguing that current rules disadvantage smaller parties like his. With the political landscape dominated by the Liberals and Conservatives, experts note that smaller parties, including the Marijuana Party, are increasingly sidelined in elections, reflecting broader challenges faced by such organizations in a two-party system.
"The Marijuana Party has been effectively dead. I've kept it barely alive by doing the minimum necessary to keep it registered," Blair Longley, the party's leader, told CBC News.
"It's just so rife with absurdities and psychotic BS it's so screwed up," Longley said of the government's regulatory system.
"It not just disadvantages smaller parties in general, but [it's] particularly worse on the Marijuana Party," Longley said.
"It leaves them even more kicked to the side of the road than in a more ordinary election," said Richard Johnston, a political scientist.
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