If the goal of cannabis legalization was to protect public health and safety, education and awareness campaigns must normalize safe cannabis use, not stop cannabis consumption.
Cannabis use doubles the risk of a fatal or serious-injury car crash, but some people believe it’s safer than alcohol-impaired driving. Here’s what you need to know about cannabis behind the wheel.
Health repercussions — including large increases in child cannabis poisonings — must outweigh industry calls to roll back cannabis regulations in the federal review of the impact of legalization.
Cannabis legalization in Canada is a public health strategy. Let’s harness this opportunity to understand how cannabis could fit into a multi-faceted opioid prevention and response strategy.
The government’s advice to cannabis users is to start low and go slow. Given the potential harms of a rapidly expanding retail market, it should heed its own advice and move slowly on regulatory changes.
Potential long-term, serious consequences of cannabis use include severe cyclical vomiting and a form of cardiomyopathy sometimes called ‘broken heart syndrome.’
After Canada legalized recreational cannabis in 2018, many patients left the medical cannabis system. But those who remained used it more actively.
Canada is in a position to be a global leader in setting an international precedent for socially responsible and informed policy for cannabis.
There were concerns about changes that cannabis legalization might bring. But some trends that were already underway beforehand mostly carried on afterward.
Total alcohol sales didn’t change much in the first 17 months after Canada legalized recreational cannabis, but small changes appeared at the local level.
