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Oct 10, 2023 · More than a quarter of Canadian adults — 27 per cent — say they use cannabis, up from 22 per cent in 2017, said author Benedikt Fischer, an adjunct professor at the Centre for Applied Research ...
Oct 11, 2023 · THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck. Five years after Canada's move to legalize the recreational use of cannabis, researchers say the policy's impact has had mixed success on public health goals and ...
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On Oct. 17, 2018, cannabis became legal in all provinces and territories for adults 18 and over, making Canada just the second country to legalize recreational use of the drug. The Cannabis Act, introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, had a number of goals. Among them were to keep the drug out of the hands of youth, take profits a...
Russell Callaghan, a professor in the UBC Northern Medical Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, is researching the impacts of legalization on a range of public health indicators. He says research in that area is still in its early stages. What has stuck out to him so far, however, is that many of the concerns around legalized can...
Some experts caution it may be too early to call legalized marijuana an all-round success. "The research is still quite new, so there's a caveat there," Callaghan said of his work. Another goal of the Cannabis Act is to protect public health, and on that measure, rising consumption may bring new challenges. "When we see increases in rates of use, t...
Now that the third anniversary of legalization has come, the statutory review of the Cannabis Act is set to begin. The Cannabis Council of Canada (C3), which represents more than 700 licensed producers and processors of cannabis in Canada, has some policy changes it wants the government to make. In a report card on legalization released this week, ...
Sep 22, 2022 · The pros, cons and unknowns of legal cannabis in Canada 3 years later A third of recent cannabis users say they have driven while high: government survey Only 484 marijuana pardons have been ...
Mar 21, 2024 · 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 out of the hands of organized crime.
Oct 17, 2023 · In many ways, that economic equation still holds true: Canada's domestic recreational market is valued in the billions. In 2022, Deloitte Canada estimated that cannabis added C$43.5bn ($31.91bn ...
Oct 15, 2021 · Three years after Canada legalized cannabis, the industry appears ready for a reset. When midnight struck on Oct. 17, 2018, Canada became the first developed nation to allow the sale of cannabis for recreational purposes, and since then the industry has had its share of ups and downs. While billions of dollars worth of legal pot has been sold across thousands of licensed stores, helping to ...
