Report on Canada's marijuana legalization due this week
Ottawa’s march toward a controlled market for legal marijuana in Canada takes a major step forward this week with the delivery of a task force report that includes advice on a minimum age, product warnings and measures to prevent drug-impaired driving.
The report on pot legalization will be delivered to cabinet by Wednesday, said task force chair Anne McLellan, a lawyer and former federal cabinet minister in the Chrétien and Martin governments.
Ms. McLellan said her nine-person group – which has received 30,000 online submissions and visited U.S. states with experience in the legalization process – has authored a responsible, fair and balanced report that will “engender a lot of interest.”
Speaking on the sidelines of a Bennett Jones LLP business forum last week, Ms. McLellan said it’s hard to understate how significant a psychological shift will be required as law enforcement, governments and Canadians as a whole adapt to...
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