Tug-of-war between scrapping pot’s black market, upping health outcomes yet to be resolved

There has been a tension at the heart of the cannabis legalization project from its very beginning. Its two main objectives are, to a great extent, in contradiction.

For the potential public health benefits of legalization to be fully realized, the legal market will certainly need to supplant the black market—eventually.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY JEAN-FRANçOIS CRéPAULT

October 30, 2019

October 2019 marks the one-year anniversary of Canada’s cannabis legalization framework, and many have taken the opportunity to opine on its progress. A common theme is that one year in, legalization is “

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