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A Brock University professor says Canada’s provincial governments should consider distributing marijuana through public liquor stores as a way to change people’s perspective on the drug following the federal Liberals’ 2015 election promise to legalize it.

Dan Malleck, an associate professor of health sciences, is among the panellists scheduled to speak at a symposium on marijuana legalization at the University of Saskatchewan this week.

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Malleck, who has studied the history of liquor control and drug prohibition, said provincial governments sold alcohol in the past not to perpetuate prohibition principles, but rather to normalize alcohol use for the public.

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“A lot of people look at these liquor control systems and say, ‘Oh, this was just a temperance movement in government,’ but it wasn’t the case,” Malleck said.

“They were trying to make it available and accessible, but not consumed in an overly problematic way.”