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Mar 21, 2024 · March 21, 2024 | Ottawa, ON | Health Canada. In 2018, the Government of Canada introduced the Cannabis Act, which put into place a legal framework that takes a comprehensive public health approach to cannabis. The Cannabis Act is designed to protect the health and safety of Canadians while keeping cannabis out of the hands of youth and profits ...
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The cross-sectional, voluntary National Cannabis Survey (NCS) uses an internet-based electronic questionnaire (EQ) and its content was developed in consultation with several government departments.Note 7 More information about the NCS is available online.Note 7On average, each quarter’s sample (provinces only) had 5,651 respondents, a response rate...
Outcomes
Past-three month cannabis and daily or almost daily (DAD)use was based on responses to: "During the past three months, how often did you use cannabis?" Driving within two hours of using cannabiswas based on: "In the past three months, have you driven a motor vehicle within two hours of using cannabis?" Respondents who did not have a valid driver's license were excluded from this part of the analysis. Having been a passengerin a vehicle operated by someone who had consumed cannabis within two...
Cannabis use prevalence
By 2019, more than 5.1 million people nationally, or 16.8% of Canadians aged 15 or older, reported using cannabis in the three months before surveying (Table 1). This was higher than the 14.9% (4.5 million) reporting use, on average, in 2018 (before legalization). A third (33.3%) of 18- to 24-year-olds in 2019 reported consuming cannabis in the past three months, a level unchanged from before legalization and also exceeding the rates for people in all other age groups (ranging from 5.9%-24.4%...
Daily or almost daily use
On average, in 2019, 6.0% of Canadians aged 15 or older reported using cannabis DAD; about the same level as 2018 (5.9%) (Table 1). Regardless of year, DAD users were also more likely to be male and aged 18 to 44. Despite reaching 2.6% in 2019, persons 65 and older continued to be the least likely to consume cannabis DAD but the only population since legalization for whom DADuse increased. The percentages of the population who reported using DAD varied across the country (3.3% to 10.2% depend...
Driving after cannabis use
Legalizationraised concerns about increased use among drivers. According to the NCS, the likelihood of reporting driving after cannabis use did not change with legalization. For example, in 2019, 13.2% of cannabis users with a valid driver's license reported driving within two hours of using cannabis—unchanged from 2018 (Table 2). Males remained more likely to engage in this behaviour than females (15.6% compared to 9.4%, respectively). The proportion who reported driving within two hours was...
This study presents an overview of changes in cannabis use and related behaviours in the months immediately before and after the Cannabis Actwas implemented, using nationally-representative, Canadian data from the ten provinces. There is a growing consensus that cannabis use can harm adolescent brainsNote 11Note 12 and that cannabis use initiated a...
This study has a number of strengths, including the use of a multiple outcomes, having comparison-data collected before and after legalization and the analytical advantage of combining survey quarters. For example, it would not be possible to conduct provincial analyses of cannabis sources or analyses of cannabis sources by spending level without c...
The policies governing cannabis production, distribution, sale, and consumption continue to evolve. While the first year of Canada's legalization policy was accompanied by generally modest change in cannabis-related behaviours several potentially important policy changes are coming into effect in early 2020,Note 2 including the legal sale of more p...
Feb 2, 2020 · By tightly regulating the market for cannabis, the Canadian government has stopped prosecuting citizens for possessing and consuming cannabis (a drug with fewer serious health risks than alcohol or tobacco) while taking millions of dollars out of the hands of criminal organisations.
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Oct 25, 2021 · It is still illegal to enter Canada with cannabis, even if you are coming from a legal cannabis state or have a medical cannabis permit. The cannabis in question must be declared to the Canada Border Services Agency.
With the coming into force of the Cannabis Act (the Act) on October 17, 2018, the Government of Canada legalized and strictly regulated the production, distribution, sale, import and export, and possession of cannabis for adults of legal age.
Dec 16, 2022 · Introduction. The Cannabis Act came into force on October 17, 2018 and provides legal access to cannabis and controls and regulates its production, distribution and sale. To evaluate the impact of the Cannabis Act, data are required to better understand how Canadians view and use cannabis.
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