Liberals to announce marijuana will be legal by July 1, 2018

Get your head out of your ass already/

Below is what the policy objectives are based on


Bowes et al. (2013) Lifecourse SEP and tobacco and cannabis use European Journal of Public Health 23(2): 322-7. Calvignioni et al. (2014) Neuronal substrates and functional consequences of prenatal cannabis exposure European
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 23(10): 931-41. Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. (2015) Cannabis Regulation: Experiences, Impacts and Lessons Learned In
Colorado.
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Cannabis Policy Framework. Toronto, ON: CAMH; 2014 Oct. Chadwick et al. (2013) Cannabis use during adolescent development: susceptibility to psychiatric illness Frontiers in
Psychiatry 4: 129. Degenhardt and Hall (2012) Extent of illicit drug use and dependence, and their contribution to the global burden
of disease The Lancet 379(9810): 55-70. Degenhardt et al. (2013) The global epidemiology and contribution of cannabis use and dependence to the global
burden of disease: results from the GBD 2010 study PLoS One 8(10): e76635. Devinsky O, Cilio MR, Cross H, Fernandez-Ruiz J, French J, Hill J, et al. Cannabidiol: Pharmacology and potential
therapeutic role in epilepsy and other neuropsychiatric disorders. Epilepsia. 2014 Jun;55(6):791−802. El Sohly et al. (2000) Potency trends of delta-9 THC and other cannabinoids in confiscated marijuana from
1980-1997. Journal of Forensic Science 45(1): 24-30. EMCDDA Annual Report (2010) Risk Factors for Cannabis Initiation and Dependence http://www.emcdda. europa.eu/online/annual-report/2010/boxes/p45 Fergusson et al. (2008) Cannabis use and later life outcomes Addiction 103(6): 969-76. George, T., & Vaccarino, F. (Eds.). (2015). Substance abuse in Canada: The Effects of Cannabis Use during
Adolescence. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. Hall W, Degenhardt L. The adverse health effects of chronic cannabis use. Drug Test Anal. 2014
Jan−Feb;6(1−2):39−45. Hall (2015) What has research over the past two decades revealed about the adverse health effects of recreational
cannabis use? Addiction 110(1): 19-35. Hartman RL, Brown TL, Milavetz G, Spurgin A, Pierce RS, Gorelick DA, et al. Cannabis effects on driving lateral control with and without alcohol. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015 Sep 1;154:25−37. Hartman RL, Brown TL, Milavetz G, Spurgin A, Gorelick DA, Gaffney G, et al. Controlled vaporized cannabis, with
and without alcohol: Subjective effects and oral fluid-blood cannabinoid relationships. Drug Test Anal. 2015 Aug 10. doi: 10.1002/dta.1839.
26 TOWARD THE LEGALIZATION, REGULATION AND RESTRICTION OF ACCESS TO MARIJUANA: DISCUSSION PAPER Health Canada. Consumer Information—Cannabis (Marihuana, marijuana). Ottawa, ON: Health Canada; 2015 Dec.
Available from: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/alt_formats/pdf/marihuana/info/cons-eng.pdf Health Canada. Information for Health Care Professionals—Cannabis (marihuana, marijuana) and the cannabinoids. Ottawa, ON: 2013 Feb. Available from: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhpmps/alt_formats/pdf/marihuana/med/infoprof-eng.pdf Heishman SJ, Arasteh K, Stitzer ML. Comparative effects of alcohol and marijuana on mood, memory, and performance. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 1997 Sep;58(1):93−101. Horwood et al. (2010) Cannabis use and educational achievement: findings from three Australasian cohort studies.
Drug and Alcohol Dependence 110(3): 247-53. Hussain SA, Zhou R, Jacobson C, Weng J, Cheng E, Lay J, et al. Perceived efficacy of cannabidiol-enriched cannabis
extracts for treatment of pediatric epilepsy: A potential role for infantile spasms and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
Epilepsy Behav. 2015 Jun;47:138−41. Husni et al. (2014) Evaluation of Phytocannabinoids from High Potency Cannabis sativa using In Vitro Bioassays to
Determine Structure-Activity Relationships for Cannabinoid Receptor 1 and Cannabinoid Receptor 2. Medicinal
Chemistry Research 23(9): 4295-4300. Leyton, M., & Stewart, S. (Eds.). (2014). Substance abuse in Canada: Childhood and adolescent pathways to
substance use disorders. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. Loflin and Earlywine (2014) A new method of cannabis ingestion: the danger of dabs? Addictive behaviors 39(10):
1430-3. Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations, SOR/2013-119. Available from: http://www.lawslois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2013-119/

Meier et al. (2012) Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(40): E2657-64. Naftali T, Bar-Lev Schleider L, Dotan I, Lansky EP, Sklerovsky Benjaminov F, Konikoff FM. Cannabis induces a clinical
response in patients with Crohn’s disease: A prospective placebo-controlled study. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol.
2013 Oct;11(10):1276−80. Porter BE, Jacobson C. Report of a parent survey of cannabidiol-enriched cannabis use in pediatric treatmentresistant epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav. 2013 Dec;29(3):574−7.
Public Health Agency of Canada. (2016) The Chief Public Health Officer's Report on the State of Public Health in
Canada, 2015: Alcohol Consumption in Canada. Radhakrishnan et al. (2014) Gone to Pot—A review of the association between cannabis and psychosis Frontiers in
Psychiatry 5: 54. 27 TOWARD THE LEGALIZATION, REGULATION AND RESTRICTION OF ACCESS TO MARIJUANA: DISCUSSION PAPER Rigucci et al (2015) Effect of high-potency cannabis on corpus callosum microstructure Psychological Medicine Nov
27: 1-14. Rogosch et al. (2010) From child maltreatment to adolescent cannabis abuse and dependence: a developmental
cascade model Development and Psychopathology 22(4): 883-97 Sewell RA, Poling J, Sofuoglu M. The effects of cannabis compared with alcohol on driving. Am J Addict. 2009;18(3):185−93.
Silins et al. (2014) Young adult sequelae of adolescent cannabis use: an integrative analysis The Lancet Psychiatry 1(4): 286-93. UNICEF Office of Research (2013). ‘Child Well-being in Rich Countries: A comparative overview’, Innocenti Report
Card 11, UNICEF Office of Research, Florence. UNODC, World Drug Report 2012 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.12.XI.1). Vanyukov et al. (2012) Common liability to addiction and “gateway hypothesis”: theoretical, empirical and evolutionary perspective Drug and Alcohol Dependence 123 Suppl 1 S3-17. Volkow ND, Baler RD, Compton WM, Weiss SRB. Adverse health effects of marijuana use. New Engl J Med. 2014
Jun 5;370(23):2219−27

/r/canadients Thread Parent Link - cbc.ca