Health committee  Let me conclude by adding the following. You mentioned the data from Colorado. It is interesting that the increase was observed prior to legalization in 2014. Those figures are actually from 2009. The issue of non-medical cannabis arose in 2014. The whole commercialization of can

Health committee  I am not a social marketing expert, but applications are available now, and campaigns....

Health committee  No. On the other hand, we know that young people are on the Internet. Furthermore, just walking around Montreal you see signs for the web applications of companies and dispensaries that are currently illegal. This is tolerated or at least the approach is lax. This is clearly an i

Health committee  Yes, that touches on what your colleague and I were talking about earlier. Product recognition requires that the name and brand be indicated, and so forth, whereas stimulation seeks to make a product attractive. There is a difference between the two. That is not addressed in Bill

Health committee  Plain packaging is a major topic of discussion between the industry and the public health community. Ways of designing packaging to differentiate these products from illegal products are being explored. We can already see the first statistics for tobacco, for Australia and France

Health committee  I would simply like to complete what my colleague said. That would have to be discussed with Public Safety Canada, but in terms of practical control, it should be noted that user co-operatives are often registered and have a list of members. That means we would know where things

Health committee  No, I was referring to creating an environment in which, ideally, the substance is not normalized. Our position is as follows. In order to facilitate the transition from an illegal market to a legal one, we must attempt to reflect the market. This market has not been documented;

Health committee  Thank you. Hello. Beyond setting a minimum age, preventing cannabis use among young people depends in large part, as my colleague said, on establishing a strict legal framework for this product, which we consider to be no ordinary commodity, as certain public health stakeholde