Did Laureen Harper contradict Conservative party policy on pot?

Did Laureen Harper go off-message?

When the Press Progress website posted video of the Conservative leader's wife talking about marijuana at a small campaign event in Brampton, Ont. recently, eyebrows raised.

While she didn't come out in favour of full legalization, she did suggest people shouldn't go to jail for smoking pot.

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That might appear to contradict the law-and-order,zero-tolerance,crackdown-on-drugs approach one associates with Conservatives.

After all, this is the party that hammered hard againstJustin Trudeau'smore liberal pot policy in the House of Commons,duringbyelection campaigns and, most recently, in radio attack ads.

Health Canada also kept running itspartisan-tingedanti-drug ad campaign right up until this election campaign launched.

Power & Politics convened a panel of candidates to unpack the various party positions on pot, and to consider whetherLaureen Harper strayed, or merely articulated a less-familiar aspect of theConservative position.