Cannabis Legalization in Canada: Reflections on Public Health and the Governance of Legal Psychoactive Substances

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 i...

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Main Author: Jean-François Crépault
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00220/full