In my comments I talked about how I think this is a reasonable approach for now, and that we should continue to move forward and think about and ensure that we're capitalizing on the experiences of other jurisdictions. It's a question of trying to balance it out, so I agree that people prefer to have access to legal products. The question is how you implement that in a fashion that maximizes the public health principles and minimizes harm and increases public safety. It's always, as I think many of our other colleagues commented, a delicate balancing act, but I am supportive of regulating these products so that we can ensure that public health principles are those that are governing these products and their use.
On September 13th, 2017. See this statement in context.