Reading Time: 3 minutes The Liberal strategy faces a Senate roadblock, questions about police preparedness and concerns that the provinces won’t be ready by July 1
Tag: Addiction
Let private enterprise retail cannabis in Nova Scotia
Reading Time: 3 minutes A private retail model offers more entrepreneurship overall and better distribution, particularly in rural areas
How alcohol is killing Aboriginal Canadians
Reading Time: 6 minutes In his important book Firewater, Harold Johnson talks about the enormous problem of alcohol abuse that plagues so many Indigenous communities
Cure-all claims for marijuana up in smoke?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite the fanfare, the medical benefits of marijuana remain experimental for many conditions
We must rethink our approach to battling opioid abuse
Reading Time: 4 minutes As fentanyl deaths continue to rise, we cannot continue to pretend that we are on the path to solving this problem
Give First Nations priority access to marijuana industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes Indigenous communities should have the same access that private sector parties are demanding
What’s missing in Ontario’s approach to marijuana distribution
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ontario says it won’t allow edibles. But the black market will fill the gap and may impact the province’s attempts to mitigate public risk
A burning need for visionary pragmatism on nicotine
Reading Time: 4 minutes Nicotine is both the problem and the solution to smoking and the epidemic can be stopped by using non-combustion alternatives
Provinces must act to prevent another OxyContin debacle
Reading Time: 3 minutes Two solutions to increase pharmaceutical manufacturers’ accountability to Canadians and their governments
Breaking technology’s pernicious grip on our children
Reading Time: 3 minutes The formative years with our children only come once. When we make them the highest priorities in our lives, we give them the message that they’re worthwhile