Health committee  But it shouldn't take a lot of time. The defect or the problem is in the process as opposed to the subject matter.

Health committee  It's a little bit of legalization.

Health committee  I live in the cocoon of British Columbia, where people haven't been charged with simple possession for a long time; the police just seize it. You still see a lot of charges but rarely convictions, unless it's something more than simple possession. In my practice, I don't get anyw

Health committee  It shouldn't take them very long. Unfortunately, the bureaucratic process in terms of passing regulations.... You don't need to go through the legislature or Parliament to pass regulations. It's always a puzzle to me how long it takes for them to do things. We heard them go on ab

Health committee  We don't have time for anything I'd like to add. As I say, where are the bodies? After all these years we don't have any of these problems that many people have talked about. For a long time now, we've had many people producing for medical purposes. We've managed to iron out so

Health committee  We've had people doing it for now over 12 or 13 years, and we don't have any bodies.

Health committee  How has homegrown helped to eliminate the black market?

Health committee  Well, it's because people are growing it for themselves instead of being consumers of something that somebody else is producing. You're eliminating the market; you're not buying into the market. That's why these stores are the most important thing in terms of reducing the black m

Health committee  I clearly feel that if you're going to make conduct legal that in the past was illegal, you should also then address eliminating those prior criminal records, and so on. You certainly are making a mistake, I think, in not looking at the existing industry and saying we're going to

Health committee  The definition of a dwelling-house in the cannabis act includes the land contiguous surrounding the premises and any outbuilding on the property. Under the medical regulations, you can only grow indoor or outdoor. They won't let you do both, which actually doesn't make sense in

Health committee  No, it doesn't. That's why I think there's this problem with apartments that don't have an area where somebody could do it besides their apartment, so you need to give them the carrot to be able to do it somewhere else, rather than do it in the apartment, by creating the communit

Health committee  Good morning. As a lawyer, it's always hard to confine oneself to 10 minutes; I'll do it. To use the metaphor yesterday of travelling on the plane, I've been on this plane for almost 45 years. There have been a number of times when I thought we were going to run out of gas, with