The Liberal government’s new pot legislation is premature and half-baked. It leans heavily on last December’s report from the task force charged with drawing up the framework for cannabis legislation. What was more apparent was how much detail has still to be resolved — from taxation to distribution, from packaging to legal driving limits. The choice is an industry controlled by organized crime or a legal, regulated market. It’s clear the introduction of the cannabis bill brings us closer to an end of a prohibition that has helped finance organized crime in this country.

Source: National Post April 13, 2017 23:03 UTC