Setting the cannabis age at 19 is ‘not practical at all,’ lawyer says
Making the cannabis age 19 might seem to make sense, but in practice it puts 18-year-olds in a weird grey area. Continue reading
Paul Lewin
Want a job selling legal marijuana? You face an awkward dilemma
Will Canada’s best-qualified work force be blacklisted from working in legal marijuana retail? Continue reading
Majority of charges laid in Canada’s largest marijuana dispensary raid will not go to trial
Of the 90 individuals who were facing more than 180 charges in Toronto police’s May 26, 2016 Project Claudia raids of 43 dispensaries — 45 of those cases have been withdrawn or stayed and a further 27 have been settled through peace bonds. Continue reading
If RCMP can’t say how many Canadians have minor pot convictions, how will amnesty erase records?
If the RCMP can’t break out records for simple possession of pot from other drugs in their data, how will they delete them in an amnesty? Continue reading
Why Toronto’s pot dispensaries are still open despite serious drug trafficking charges
Despite hundreds of arrests, up to 60 Toronto marijuana dispensaries are still up and running. “There seems to be a very arbitrary application of the law,” a defence lawyer says. Continue reading
