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Five Years of Legal Cannabis in Canada: Lessons and Laments
WHERE:
Founders Hall 118
WHO:
Johannes Wheeldon
Acadia University
Nova Scotia, Canada
TOPIC:
What can be learned from five years of legal cannabis in Canada?
In 2018, Canada became the second country in the world to allow for the supply, production, and sale of legal/regulated cannabis, and the first to adopt a limited commercial model. During the pandemic, cannabis retail outlets were classified as providing an essential service alongside key businesses that provided food, water, and energy in Canadian provinces. In 2022, the federal government announced a review of the Cannabis Act. Cannabis in Canada is a paradox. Increasingly normalized in some ways and persistently stigmatized in others. Canada is a case study of the legal, moral, and cultural renegotiation underway on cannabis.
Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the Cannabis Studies Program
BIO
Johannes Wheeldon has more than 25 years of experience working in criminal justice, including teaching in prisons, working with those deemed at high risk to re-offend, and designing, conducting, and managing justice reform projects worldwide. He has worked with the American Bar Association, the Canadian International Development Agency, the Open Society Foundations, and the World Bank. Wheeldon has published six books and more than 30 peer-reviewed papers on criminal justice, restorative justice, organizational change, and evaluation. He is an adjunct professor at Acadia University. In 2022, he edited: Visual Criminology: From History and Methods to Critique and Policy, published by Routledge. His new books include: Cannabis Criminology and Visions of Cannabis Control, both with Jon Heidt.
His work is available here:
https://www.cannabiscriminology.org/
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