News Analysis
The recent gaffe in which two B.C. companies announced they had licences to sell cocaine brings attention to the plans such companies may be making to commercialize hard drugs on a broad scale.
Cannabis company Adastra Labs announced on Feb. 22 that it had received approval from Health Canada “to include cocaine as a substance” that it can “legally possess, produce, sell and distribute.”
The company later revised its statement, saying it is “not currently undertaking any activities with cocaine.”
On March 2, Sunshine Earth Labs Ltd. made a similar announcement of having received a Health Canada licence to sell hard drugs such as cocaine, opium, and morphine—and then later made a similar retraction….