Webinar 4: Looking Back, Year One of Cannabis Legalization
Looking Back: Year One of Cannabis Legalization in Canada
Cannabis legalization remains the most intense national policymaking exercises Canada has undertaken in over a generation. Hundreds of strategic and operational policy decisions needed to be made across hundreds of public and private organizations before recreational cannabis was legalized in October 2018. How did governments go about making those decisions, and how well did they perform in advancing their policy objectives? Based on studies highlighed in a new special issue of Canadian Public Administration, join three authors for a wide ranging discussion of how governments' approaches to pricing and amnesty have fallen short of expectations, and how the machinery of government helped shape these outcomes.
Speakers:
Jared Wesley
Jared Wesley is a pracademic — a practising political scientist and former bureaucrat — whose career path to becoming an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta included senior management positions in the Alberta Executive Council and the Alberta Public Service Commission. He studies the politics of bureaucracy and the bureaucracy of politics.
Jason Childs
Jason Childs trained as an experimental economist at McMaster University. His research interests have expanded to include a wide variety of economic behaviours and their relationship to government policy. This lead him to explore government policy with respect to alcohol and the privatization of alcohol retailing in Saskatchewan and the economic determinants of alcohol demand in Canada. In collaboration with two colleagues at the University of Regina, he pioneered teaching the economics of beer in Canada. Most recently, he was a major contributor to a major policy project on the legalization and regulation of recreational cannabis in Saskatchewan and nationally.
Samantha McAleese
Samantha McAleese is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Carleton University. Samantha’s research focuses on the collateral consequences of punishment, structural stigma, and the criminal justice voluntary sector. She works with non-profit organizations, legal professionals, advocacy groups, activists, and people with lived experiences of criminalization and punishment on issues of penal policy and practice in Canada - specifically around reforms to the Criminal Records Act.
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