Developments and changes in primary public health outcome indicators associated with the legalization of non-medical cannabis use and supply in Canada (2018): a …

H Boury, W Hall, B Fischer - International journal of mental health and …, 2024 - Springer
Canada legalized non-medical cannabis use and supply for adults in 2018. We examined
developments and changes associated with the legalization policy reform on key indicators …

[HTML][HTML] Youth cannabis use and Legalization in Canada–Reconsidering the fears, myths and facts three years in

RJ Haines-Saah, B Fischer - Journal of the Canadian Academy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Canada legalized and regulated non-medical cannabis in October 2018, and in the lead up
to this policy change much debate was generated around the Federal Government's stated …

Assessing the public health impact of cannabis legalization in Canada: core outcome indicators towards an 'index'for monitoring and evaluation

B Fischer, C Russell, J Rehm… - Journal of Public Health, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The legalization of non-medical cannabis use and supply is impending in Canada. This
constitutes a major policy change with the declared objective of improving public health …

Clearing the air: a study of cannabis-related presentations to urban Alberta emergency departments following legalization

MEM Yeung, CG Weaver, K Janz… - Canadian journal of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
ObjectivesNon-medical cannabis recently became legal for adults in Canada. Legalization
provides opportunity to investigate the public health effects of national cannabis legalization …

Cannabis legalization in Canada: how might 'strict'regulation impact youth?

TM Watson, PG Erickson - Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Canada is on course to become, in October 2018, the second country in the world, after
Uruguay, to federally legalize cannabis for recreational use. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's …

Cannabis use is associated with lower rates of initiation of injection drug use among street‐involved youth: A longitudinal analysis

H Reddon, K DeBeck, ME Socias… - Drug and Alcohol …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Introduction and Aims Street‐involved youth are known to be at elevated risk of
initiating injection drug use. However, the impact of so‐called 'gateway'drugs, such as …

Drug legalization, Democracy and Public Health: canadian stakeholders' Opinions and Values with Respect to the legalization of cannabis

M Rochette, M Valiquette, C Barned… - Public Health …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The legalization of cannabis in Canada instantiates principles of harm-reduction and safe
supply. However, in-depth understanding of values at stake and attitudes toward legalization …

Cannabis legalization in Canada: reflections on public health and the governance of legal psychoactive substances

JF Crépault - Frontiers in public health, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The Canadian government is “taking a public health approach to legalizing, strictly
regulating and restricting access to cannabis.” There is, however, no universally accepted …

[HTML][HTML] The devil is in the details! On regulating cannabis use in Canada based on public health criteria: comment on" legalizing and regulating marijuana in Canada …

J Rehm, JF Crépault, B Fischer - International Journal of Health …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This commentary to the editorial of Hajizadeh argues that the economic, social and health
consequences of legalizing cannabis in Canada will depend in large part on the exact …

[HTML][HTML] Legalization of recreational cannabis: Facilitators and barriers to switching from an illegal to a legal source

K Robertson, M Thyne - Preventive Medicine Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Illicit markets persist in places where recreational cannabis has been legalized. This study
aimed to identify perceived facilitators/barriers of switching from an illicit to a licit cannabis …