Interesting how Battley uses the same justifications as every Globe and Mail article for gifting cannabis to corporations: the corporate model will keep it out of the hands of youth, and it will keep profits out of the hands of gangsters. Both are fallacious. 

See the 29 Dec. 2016 Washington Post article on peer-reviewed research that shows legalization did NOT result in increased consumption of cannabis by youth (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/29/what-happened-in-washington-state-after-voters-legalized-recreational-weed). See Boyd & Carter's Killer Weed (2014), also peer-reviewed, that PROVES cannabis production in Canada is NOT in the hands of gun-toting, neighbourhood-wrecking gangsters. 

REAL RISKS of corporate cannabis include two key features: bottom lines only increase for corporate investors when new users are recruited (e.g. youth) and if current users increase consumption. So, we're about to see the feds climb aboard another cigarette industry project.