I was fortunate this past week to be part of a cannabis regulation & legalization roundtable. Convened at request of President of Botswana, Duma Gideon Boko, and organized by the Eastern & Southern Africa Commission on Drugs, it’s evidence of newly emerging drug policy perspective in the region.

I am pleased to announce my appointment as a Senior Fellow at Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, at the University of Toronto. It is my honour to be associated with this wonderful institution & to have the opportunity to be included among such an impressive stable of fellowship peers.

“This is not a trade war, this is a drug war”.

The absurdity of it all is breathtaking. The smuggling of fentanyl from Canada contributes less than 1% to the US fentanyl street supply, a fact supported by data from the US DEA. www.cbp.gov/newsroom/sta...