MONTREAL LAUNCH: High Times

Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore, 2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC
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Join co-editors Andrew Potter and Daniel Weinstock for the launch of High Time: The Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada at Librarie Paragraphe Bookstore in Montreal.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Canada has become the first G7 country to legalize cannabis, and the world is watching. While the legalization of marijuana in Canada begins with a straightforward change of the criminal code, its ramifications go far beyond this. Legalization will have a serious impact on the country's international treaty commitments, interprovincial relations, taxation and regulatory regimes, and social and health policies. The essays in this book address these outcomes from three main perspectives: the decades-long political path to legalization; the assumptions that underwrite the new policy, in particular the desire to stamp out the black market; and how legalization in Canada looks in an international context.

Andrew Potter is assistant professor at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.

Daniel Weinstock is professor in the McGill Faculty of Law, and from 2013 to 2018, he was the director of McGill's Institute for Health and Social Policy.