Gormley: Cannabis legal framework has serious side effects

This week’s highly anticipated and, in some circles, much-vaunted national legalization of cannabis introduces an entirely new market for recreational drug use. Culturally, the impact will be far reaching. But it usually takes years to measure the arc of culture.
This cannabis legalization, like so much from Justin Trudeau, is more about virtue signalling and symbolism than sound public policy. Beyond being able to check off an election promise, cannabis reform could have been done more de