Canada aims for pot legalization in 2017

The Canadian government should watch Colorado and Washington State closely as it moves to introduce marijuana legislation in spring 2017, according to UBC Okanagan psychology professor Zach Walsh, in a USA Today article.

“It’s nice that those experiments are there for us to see what’s worked,” he said. “We’ll learn from those and I think, because we’re looking at doing it federally and in a more organized way and maybe with a bit more prep time, I think we’ll take what’s worked from those models and make our own.”