Paul Lewin

• 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.

  Canada

  Oct 11, 2017
• 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?

  Canada

  Sep 13, 2017
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• 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180 charges in Toronto police's May 26, 2016 Project Claudia raids of 43 dispensaries -- 45 of those cases have been withdrawn or stayed and a further 27 have been settled through peace bonds.

  Canada

  Jul 6, 2017
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• 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?

  May 10, 2017
• 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.

  Canada

  Oct 28, 2016