The legal cannabis dossier is taking a very long time. In part, because the medical cannabis portfolio is suffering from poor PR due to two LP's being caught using myclobutanil---which off-gases hydrogen cyanide when burned (e.g. smoked). The scandal reaches all the way to Health Canada, a ministry that should have required ALL med. cannabis to be tested for known banned chemicals, from the very start! Now, they're scrambling to avoid lawsuits, and repair the HC image, tarnished with a laissez-faire approach to public safety. This is really something Goodale should be addressing: what is HC prepared to do, and what should medical marijuana clients be doing when they receive their mail-order bud?

But a larger issue, for legal recreational cannabis, remains: how to paper-start this industry sector without appearing to promote increased consumption among existing users? And how to appear to be not targeting youth as new users? You can't have your cake and smoke it, too.