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| B.C. drug injection clinic can stay open, Supreme Court rules | The Supreme Court of Canada has opened the door to supervised drug injection clinics across the country in a landmark decision that ordered the feder... |
| B.C. medical group recommends pot legalization | Some B.C. medical health officials are now advocating for marijuana to be legalized, arguing that the government's costly enforcement activities ... |
| Breaking the Silence | This brief report outlines the links between cannabis prohibition in British Columbia (Canada) and the growth of organized crime and related violence ... |
| Bring back the free crack pipes | When you hear that your government is helping addicts shoot up or smoke crack, it's normal to wonder: how can this possibly be good? Until recen... |
| Budding research may remove stigma around cannabis cultivation | Two Canadian researchers hope their work — mapping the cannabis sativa genome — will get rid of the stigma which they say surrounds the cultivation ... |
| Canada drug law contributes to the harm it seeks to prevent | In a surprise ruling yesterday, the British Colombia Supreme Court supported Vancouver's experimental supervised injection clinic Insite - North ... |
| Canada needs a more realistic public health approach to cannabis, study finds | Canada's existing public health approach to cannabis use is unrealistic and should be adjusted to reflect the way the system approaches alcohol.... |
| Canadians in favour of relaxing pot laws: poll | The results come as the Liberal party voted overwhelmingly to support legalization of the drug at its biennial policy convention on the weekend, see... |
| Conservative senator opposes omnibus crime bill | Conservative Senator Pierre Claude Nolin says he can't support the massive Bill C-10 mainly because of a section that deals with growing marijuan... |
| Doctors refuse to OK marijuana use | A decade after Canada legalized the medical use of marijuana, most doctors are still refusing to sign the declarations patients need to get legal ac... |
| Dr. Evan Wood: There is nothing conservative about supporting marijuana prohibition | Imagine an extremely expensive government policy proven to be completely ineffective at achieving its stated objectives. Consider also that whenever ... |
| Drug users to receive crack pipes as part of pilot project | Vancouver health officials will distribute new crack pipes to non-injection drug users this fall as part of a pilot project aimed at engaging crack ... |
| Equal access to medical marijuana eludes Canadians | Data obtained by the Ottawa Citizen through the Access to Information Act put a face to the typical medical marijuana patient for the first time, 10... |
| Former B.C. attorneys-general call for legalization of marijuana | Spurred in part by the point-blank shooting of a known gangster in an upscale Vancouver hotel, four former attorneys-general of British Columbia hav... |
| Former mayors speak out for Insite | Divided by politics but united by drug policy, five former Vancouver mayors have issued a last-minute plea to Ottawa to drop its appeal of earlier c... |
| Former Supreme Court justice blasts minimum sentences for marijuana offenders | Canada’s new mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders are based on “very bad criminal law policy” and constitute a threat to ... |
| Four former Vancouver mayors back call for an end to pot prohibition | Four former Vancouver mayors have endorsed a coalition calling for an end to pot prohibition in Canada that they blame for rampant gang violence. La... |
| Free crack cocaine pipes enable the saving of lives | In 2008, Safeworks, an outreach program of Alberta Health Services, began a harm reduction program aimed at mitigating the effects of sharing crack ... |
| Free crack pipe service discontinued in Calgary | A decision to stop a clean crack-pipe distribution program has disappointed those working to rehabilitate street addicts. Since 2008, Alberta Health ... |
| Improving community health and safety in Canada through evidence-based policies on illegal drugs | The use of illegal drugs remains a serious threat to community health. However, despite the substantial social costs attributable to illegal drugs, a... |
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