ArticleFrontiers in public health2018
Cannabis Legalization in Canada: Reflections on Public Health and the Governance of Legal Psychoactive Substances.
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- Cannabis Use Disorder in the Era of Legalization: Implications for Addiction Treatment Systems.Substance abuse and rehabilitation · 2026Review
- Defining a public health approach to substance use: insights from a systematic scoping review and conceptual framework development approach.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Cannabinomics in the flower of Cannabis sativa: a systematic review of extraction, analytical identification, and micro/nanoencapsulation methods for bioactive metabolites.Journal of cannabis research · 2025Review
- Comprehensive Phenotypic Characterization of Diverse Drug-TypePlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Therapeutic Cannabis Use in Kidney Disease: A Survey of Canadian Nephrologists.Kidney medicine · 2022Article
- Harmful Effects of Smoking Cannabis: A Cerebrovascular and Neurological Perspective.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019Review
- Six policy lessons relevant to cannabis legalization.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2019Review
- Opinions of Illicit Cannabis Growers on the Industrial Legalization of Cannabis in Ghana: An Exploratory Qualitative Study.Substance use : research and treatmentArticle
- Assessing the impact of a cannabis course on pharmacy students' understanding, beliefs and preparedness regarding medical and recreational cannabis.Canadian pharmacists journal : CPJ = Revue des pharmaciens du Canada : RPCArticle
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Abstract
The Canadian government is "taking a public health approach to legalizing, strictly regulating and restricting access to cannabis." There is, however, no universally accepted definition of a public health approach to cannabis. This paper presents what such an approach is, and is not, and discusses its applicability to legal psychoactive substances more generally. It critically reflects on the role of the public health sector in the governance of addictive substances and activities, noting its function of "responsibilizing" individuals and coaxing them to self-regulate-and the contradiction involved when other state actors involved in governance are actively inciting consumption of those substances and activities.
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