How Will Legalization Impact Canada's Northern Territories?
Most of the discussion around legalization has been centered on the provinces, but how will it affect the northern territories differently?
When the government begins to digest the marijuana legalization task force’s report, the feedback they will be reading will come from numerous stakeholders — from individual citizens, to activist groups, health professionals, and municipal, provincial, and territorial governments, to name a few.
We’ve covered a lot of issues arising from many of these groups, but we’ve not yet discussed in depth the issues facing Canada’s territories.
The type of feedback the task force receives depends on where it’s coming from. As far as different jurisdictions in Canada go, Provinces are most concerned with managing distribution (and tax revenue), while municipalities have often focussed more on the ability to manage retail locations and the need for tax revenue to make its way back to the local level.
For Canada’s territories,...
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