FABRIZIO DENTINI - 'LEGAL' THE CANADA MODEL | BOOK

On 17 October 2018, Canada chose to legalise the production, distribution and sale of the most famous and controversial plant on the planet: Cannabis Sativa L.

The Canadian government's historic decision manifests a threefold intent: to protect public health, to prevent youth consumption, and to fight organised crime while relieving law enforcement and the judiciary from the responsibility of investigating offences related to cannabis production and possession.

The path by which cannabis has become a mass consumer commodity for Canadian society is traced in this text from the pre-legalisation debate, including the unprecedented legislative context that frames a new production sector and guarantees its consumers, the role of themedical cannabis industry, the tax policy adopted to combat underground transactions, data on a market that is literally blossoming, and the exciting prospects that are revealed when legalising a plant with multiple applications for all fields of modern industry.

Fabrizio Dentini, a journalist with a degree in Communication Sciences with a thesis on the penitentiary system, has been collaborating since 2010 with Soft Secrets, a well-established European anti-prohibitionist information publisher.