Three years on, cannabis is the ‘new oil’

A legislated review of legalized recreational cannabis in Canada is scheduled to start Oct. 17 and be completed within no more than 18 months.

Recreational cannabis has been legal in Canada since 2018, with edibles legal since 2019. According to a 2021 report from Statistics Canada, the number of Canadians 15 years of age and older who reported using cannabis in the last three months is up six percentage points from pre-legalization findings. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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BY ALICE CHEN

October 13, 2021

The legalization of recreational cannabis in Canada is fast approaching its three-year anniversary, and while the sector is seen to have behaved responsibly, volatility and uncertainty remains in both the market and how it operates, as well as in the long-term mental and public health impacts of leg...

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