Titre : | High Time: The legalization and regulation of cannabis in Canada |
Auteurs : | A. POTTER, Éditeur scientifique ; D. WEINSTOCK, Éditeur scientifique |
Type de document : | Rapport |
Editeur : | Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-7735-5641-6 |
Format : | 234 p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | LOI (Loi et son application / Law enforcement) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus géographique CANADA ; PORTUGALThésaurus mots-clés CANNABIS ; REGULATION ; LEGALISATION ; POLITIQUE ; SANTE PUBLIQUE ; ETHNIE ; MARCHE DE LA DROGUE |
Résumé : |
Canada has become the first G7 country to legalize cannabis, and the world is watching. The primary concern facing the Liberal government as it seeks to fulfil its 2015 campaign promise to “legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana” is whether it can be done without making the situation worse. As the Liberal platform pointed out, the current regime lets illegal cannabis fall into the hands of minors, pours large profits into organized crime, and traps many people in the criminal justice system for what is arguably a victimless crime.
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. Bringing together analysis by policy makers and scholars, including the architect of marijuana legislation in Portugal - a trailblazing jurisdiction - High Time provides an urgent and necessary overview of Canada's Cannabis Act. |
Note de contenu : |
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
PART ONE: Politics 1. In praise of political opportunism, or, how to change a policy in only fifty years (A. Potter). 2. Legalized cannabis in Canada: Federalism, policy, and politics (M.G. Bird). 3. Cannabis legalization and colonial legacies (J.J. Wesley). 4. Cannabis and conflict of interest: is it wrong for public officials to profit from the legalization of cannabis? (C. MacDonald). PART TWO: Public health 5. Will legalization protect our kids? (D. Weinstock). 6. Legalize it (but don't advertise it): The public health case for cannabis legalization (J.-F. Crépault). PART THREE: Law 7. Is legalization a war on drugs by the back door? (J. Stilman). 8. Unequal justice: Race and cannabis arrests in the post-legal landscape (A. Owusu-Bempah, A. Luscombe, B.M. Finlay). 9. What jurisdiction for harm reduction: Cannabis policy reform under Canadian federalism (A. Klein). PART FOUR: Economics and taxation 10. Technology, black markets, and retail marijuana (A. Sen, R. Wyonch). 11. The legalization of marijuana and the remembrance of things past (S.T. Easton). 12. Cannabis legalization: Lessons from alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical industries (M. DeVillaer). PART FIVE: The international context 13. Cannabis legalization is the inconvenient test of Canada's commitment to the rule of international law and a rules-based world order (R. Habibi, S.J. Hoffman). 14. The Portuguese experience with decriminalization (J. Castel-Branco Goulao). |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Affiliation : | McGill Institute for the Study of Canada ; McGill Faculty of Law, Canada |
Cote : | L02190 |
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