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‘It’s Not an Event, It’s a Process’: MP Bill Blair Talks Cannabis Legalization
Kate Palbom - Published on April 10, 2018Read moreBlair anticipates the Government will announce an official ‘buy date’ within eight weeks of the Cannabis Act attaining Royal Assent.
Justin Trudeau, Cannabis Legalization Is Your Chance to Prove You Want to Empower Women
Kate Palbom - Published on April 6, 2018Read moreBy making an effort to destigmatize cannabis use among women (including minority women), in the same you are trying to destigmatize women in senior government positions, you can teach Canadians to name, celebrate, and defend female agency.
Dear Prime Minister: ‘Tis the Season to Discuss Cannabis Advertising
Kate Palbom - Published on December 22, 2017Read moreCanada’s Federal Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation has released their naughty-or-nice list of cannabis advertising rules. Let’s review!
Dear Justin: I Beg Your Pardons
Kate Palbom - Published on November 18, 2017Read moreOur Prime Minister pen-pal series continues, with a call for seasonally appropriate empathy for “cannabis criminals.”
‘Dear Justin’: A Loving Correspondence With the Prime Minister, Episode 3
Kate Palbom - Published on September 25, 2017Read moreCanadians were looking forward to a decriminalized landscape and a loosened attitude about the ‘moral failings’ of humans who uses cannabis. Now we see that our government intends to make itself sole beneficiary of its former enemy by using greedy, hypocritical, and dare I say conservative ‘regulations.’
‘Dear Justin’: A Loving Correspondence with the Prime Minister, Episode 2
Kate Palbom - Published on August 25, 2017Read moreI’m on your side, Justin. I really am. But if the new cannabis regime is to be effective, it must use tools grounded in good science and be practiced fairly. As of this writing, it does neither.
‘Dear Justin’: A Loving Correspondence With the Prime Minister, Episode 1
Kate Palbom - Published on July 28, 2017Read moreTo the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau: It feels like just yesterday you were campaigning with the promise to “legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana” —and now, here we are! However…