Best practices and pitfalls, how lessons learned stateside can inform Canadian cannabis legalization

Canada is on-track to be the benchmark for recreational, adult-use legislation and policy. That’s an exciting prospect for those of us in the cannabis “think-tank” space, and one for all Canadians.

Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor and Bill Blair, parliamentary secretary to the minister of justice and the minister of health, pictured on Nov. 21, 2107, on the Hill.The Hill Times file photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DUSTIN MCDONALD

January 29, 2018

Colorado and Washington are often referenced for pioneering the legalization of adult-use cannabis in 2012. Today, eight U.S. states and the District of Columbia have adopted laws legalizing cannabis for adult-use, with a total of 44 U.S. states providing legal medical or adult-use access or both. A...

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