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Canada's decision to bar illicit cannabis dealers from entering the legal market may be hindering the effectiveness of legalization, according to Dan Malleck, an expert in drug and alcohol regulation from Brock University. Malleck says that on top of heaping inventory to sell when cannabis legalization came into effect on October 17, 2018, Canada's provinces and territories should have also brought illegal growers and dealers into the legal market.
"They should have not just stockpiled [cannabis]," Malleck told The Washington Post. "They should have created a mechanism that allowed illegal producers to move quickly into the legal producing system."
