This policy brief is the result of a review of the research on cannabis impairment and driving that is currently underway at the CDPC. This project has…
Cannabis Use and Driving: Knowledge Translation Strategy Recommendations
In reviewing the evidence relating to cannabis impairment and driving, we have highlighted several main considerations with respect to context, tone, and audience when developing messaging for…
Organized Crime in the Cannabis Market: Evidence and Implications
Claims that portray Canada’s current and pre-existing cannabis industry as dominated by organized crime have the potential to misinform government policy and the direction of legislative reform….
Drug Policy and Harm Reduction
For World AIDS Day 2016 we are featuring our policy brief relating HIV/AIDS to harm reduction and drug policy. Brought to you by the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition…
Respect for Communities Act: The Case for Repeal and Q&A
The so-called Respect for Communities Act was passed in 2015 in the last Parliament, with the clear goal of impeding the expansion of supervised consumptions services (scs)….
Civil Society Statement to the National Opioid Summit
Canada is in the midst of an opioid overdose crisis. This statement outlines concerns that civil society organizations have about the emerging federal, provincial and territorial response…
Cannabis Regulation and the UN Drug Treaties: Strategies for Reform
As jurisdictions enact reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively “medical and scientific,” tensions surrounding the existing UN drug treaties and evolving law…
10 Points We Want Canada to Push For at the United Nations
On April 19 – 21, 2016 the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs, (UNGASS) took place in New York City. For the first time in nearly…
Canadian Drug Policy Coalition/Canadian HIV / AIDS Legal Network Policy Briefs
Canada is known around the world as a leader in harm reduction. It is host to the first, and only supervised consumption site in North America, Insite,…
