Who Should Sell Cannabis?

A new model must meet the government’s objectives of keeping it out of kids’ hands, preventing organized crime from profiting while providing reasonable access to adult consumers

The past few weeks have seen an abundance of media coverage addressing possible models for the retail sale of cannabis, with varying parties jockeying for position.  We still don’t know what Canada’s recreational cannabis regime will look like…and there are several options.

What seems to be lost in the debate, however, is what will happen to the MMPR if/when a recreational stream is introduced. Even with regulated recreational use, I believe there is still a role for a medical cannabis regime.  Medical and recreational use should exist side-by-side, with identical production standards, licensed producers, purchase/delivery options and pricing (I’m going to ignore the issue of personal growing rights here because it’s not relevant to the issue of commercial sale).  The only differences should...

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