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Did You Know that Marijuana is Illegal in Canada?
The idea that marijuana is legal in this country is one of the persistent myths about this substance. In fact, marijuana is still illegal and is listed in Schedule 2 of the federal Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. This means that unless you have authorization to use medical marijuana, you cannot possess, sell or produce…
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An abundance of loss
So many in our community have been lost to toxic drugs that it’s hard to keep track. That’s a horrible feeling. We want to honour and respect each individual, so forgetting them, even for a few seconds, is such an injustice. It is distressing to admit that so many people have passed that you can’t…
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Survey sheds light on safety issues around drug use and music festivals in B.C.
Originally posted on straight.com on June 9th, 2016 at 1:43 PM Stacey Forrester is a Vancouver-based harm-reduction advocate and nurse involved in projects on health and safety at live-music events and is focusing her studies at UBC on the intersection of community, gender, and health. Kimberly Girling is a UBC PhD candidate in neuroscience with a strong interest in global health and…
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A Roadmap for Canada’s Drug Policy Future: The Peter Wall International Research Roundtable
The first steps for systemic change are usually the hardest. But thanks to an international community of experts, including and especially those with lived expertise on the frontlines of Canada’s drug policy crisis, we’ve surmounted that hurdle. Last month, over 40 researchers, frontline advocates, policymakers, and other experts convened in Vancouver for the Peter Wall…
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Harm Reduction and the Public Good in Victoria, BC
It seems that in Canada, public meetings about harm reduction bring out the best and worst in people. This was certainly the case on Wednesday at a public meeting to discuss the inclusion of improved services in a local health unit on the edge of Victoria’s Fernwood neighbourhood. This location is already the site of…
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Envy and Love in Portland
Is it possible for a Canadian interested in issues like scaling-up harm reduction and drug law reform to envy the U.S.? That’s the worrisome question that crossed my mind as I sat in the opening plenary of the 9th National Harm Reduction Conference in Portland, Oregon. Two U.S. states recently voted to pass ballot initiatives…
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Three drug policy stories to watch in 2012
Insite opens the door North America’s only sanctioned safe injection facility was the big news story of 2011. The September 30, 2011 Canadian supreme court decision in favor of the safe injection facility is a crucial victory for evidence-based science and policy over ideology. It is a historic decision for harm reduction advocates that has…
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Our MDPV (Bath Salts) Submission to Health Canada
Remember that media-fueled tempest in a teapot in June of this year? That brief but startling drug scare raised the profile of “legal highs” like MDPV, though it likely did little to protect the health of potential and current users, albeit a small group of people. Media coverage did prompt the Canadian federal government to…