Legalisation of Cannabis is a Process. Not an Event.

Canada’s Legalisation of Cannabis could help Australia. Prohibition puts $4.5 Billion into Organised Crime’s coffers per year.

Ivonne Teoh
4 min readDec 2, 2018

I was reading some news about cannabis today.

Canada legalised cannabis on October 17, 2018 after a 95 year prohibition. Stores around Canada reported insufficient stock to meet the huge demand.

Prohibition of Cannabis in the US.

A Public Health Model, not Criminal Model or Commercial Model

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fulfilled his 2015 election promise.

“We’re not legalising cannabis because we think it’s good for our health, we’re doing it because we know it’s not good for our children.

We know we need to do a better job to protect our children and to eliminate or massively reduce the profits that go to organised crime.”

Canada’s legalisation of cannabis could take as much as 50% of the black market away from criminals and organised crime within its first year. Fully shutting down the black market could take at least four years.

For 95 years, organised crime completely controlled the cannabis black market in Canada, 100% of its…

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Ivonne Teoh

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