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DESCRIPTION:This talk by Prof. Andrew Potter is part of our Winter 2020 Pol
 icy Lecture series. These academic talks are intended for McGill students\
 , alumni and faculty. \n\nCanada's criminal prohibition on cannabis lasted
  for 95 years\, but we spent the last 50 years of that period engaged in a
  desultory attempt at reform. Why did it take half a century to change a p
 olicy that almost every major stakeholder felt was misguided?\n\nRegister 
 Here\n\nAbout Andrew Potter:\n\nAndrew Potter is an associate professor at
  the Max Bell School of Public Policy.\n\nA former journalist\, between 20
 11 and 2016 Andrew Potter was the managing editor and then editor in chief
  of the Ottawa Citizen\, and from 2006 to 2011 he was a public affairs col
 umnist for Maclean's Magazine. He is also a former Director of the McGill 
 Institute for the Study of Canada. Potter is the author of The Authenticit
 y Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves\, and the co-author\, with Josep
 h Heath\, of the best-selling book The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't b
 e Jammed.\n\nAndrew Potter holds a PhD in philosophy from the University o
 f Toronto and did postdoctoral work at the Université de Montreal. He stud
 ied philosophy as an undergraduate at McGill\, earning a Bachelor of Arts 
 degree in 1993.\n
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LOCATION:6th Floor\, CA\, QC\, H3A 3R1\, 680 Sherbrooke St. W.
SUMMARY:Cannabis Legalization: How to Change a Policy in Only 50 Years
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/channels/event/cannabis-legalizatio
 n-how-change-policy-only-50-years-303108
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