Here is a Government of Canada report that makes specific recommendations for administering the transition to legalization. There are recommendations at the end of each section - but Volume 3 is worth looking at as it has a summary of recommendations (IIRC). Otherwise, it is easy to be dismissive of the suggestion to follow the US models but wouldn't the US models provide some good case studies?

What?

I've not suggested the US models don't provide good case studies. In fact, i've said the exact opposite, I've pointed out they are great case studies.

What I pointed out is they are good examples of why Canada is nowhere near being able to implement similar measures. I genuinely can't fathom how you could have twisted my point into the exact opposite of what I said.

I am not so naive to think that legalization will get rid of organized crime; however, it will remove a primary source of funding.

In the very long term, yes. As is the case with the very examples you keep mentioning (Colorado/Washington), the criminal element continues to thrive in a tightly controlled and highly taxed regulatory model, because many people continue to prefer the cheaper and often easier-to-access black market. Your own examples disprove your claim here.

Lastly, your continued insistence that personal decriminalization is 'prohibition light' is just not true, unless it's decriminalization as an endpoint. Seeing as we both agree the NDP has explicitly stated it's not an end point, to continue to perpetuate this claim is a terrible falsehood.

As for the suggestion this is not an issue I have analyzed thoroughly, Ihave to chuckle. I have engaged in ongoing discussions with political lobbyist from all three parties on the issue now, at both the municipal, provincial and federal level and know players at basically every level, from policy to production and distribution, both legal and not legal.