Embracing new technology for a new cannabis industry

Regulators will need to track cannabis from cultivation to point of sale to ensure accountability and customer safety.

The ways Health Canada, under Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, pictured, tracks product under its current medical cannabis regime fall short, argues Dennis Garces. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DENNIS GARCES

January 31, 2018

With Bill C-45, Canada’s cannabis legalization bill, moving through the Senate, politicians and pundits have furiously debated our best path forward. Reduction of youth consumption, decriminalization of adult possession, and the eradication of black-market profits are shared objectives between gov...

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