‘An awful lot of expertise’
Black market marijuana growers shouldn’t be shut out of legal market, says task force chair
The Financial Post (Canada)
Monday, April 24, 2017
Monday, April 24, 2017
Black market marijuana growers should be included in the legal market as they can provide valuable expertise as it evolves, Anne McLellan, chair of the federal government’s task force on legalization, said. The Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation, whose recommendations were broadly adopted in the government’s proposed Cannabis Act, concluded that previous criminal convictions during marijuana’s century of prohibition “shouldn’t be an automatic bar to them coming into the legal system.” The task force’s November report called on the federal government to set up a system that allows various-sized producers to participate, including independent and craft growers.
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