Sûreté du Québec sets up cannabis contraband squad

The Sûreté du Québec will assign more than 50 officers to a squad created to suppress whatever black market exists after the legalization of cannabis in Canada on Oct. 17.
Dubbed ACCES Cannabis (Action concertée contre l’économie souterraine), the new squad will echo the work being done by similar divisions tasked with enforcing laws on contraband alcohol and tobacco.
The squad’s patrol territory will cover all of Quebec as well as illicit online ope