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Opinion | BY TRINA FRASER | January 16, 2019
‘We do not want the taxation levels to be an incentive for people to utilize [the medical cannabis] system inappropriately,’ explained Bill Blair, the minister responsible for cannabis legalization, as the rationale for a federal decision to impose a new excise duty on medical cannabis. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY TRINA FRASER | January 16, 2019
Opinion | BY TRINA FRASER | January 16, 2019
‘We do not want the taxation levels to be an incentive for people to utilize [the medical cannabis] system inappropriately,’ explained Bill Blair, the minister responsible for cannabis legalization, as the rationale for a federal decision to impose a new excise duty on medical cannabis. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade