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• Title: Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines for Canada (LRCUG): a Narrative Review of Evidence and Recommendations (Report)
• Author : Canadian Journal of Public Health
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 280 KB

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More than 10% of the general adult population in Canada report use (largely recreational) of cannabis in the past year, the highest use rate of any illegal drug. (1) Use rates among adolescents and young adults (i.e., 16-29 years of age) range from 26-46%. While cannabis use--like all psychoactive substance use--is associated with possible harms, it is currently governed by a policy of categorical prohibition in Canada. (2) Specifically, the current Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) makes 'simple cannabis possession' a criminal offense; 45,000 Canadians (or 1-2% of all estimated past-year users) are arrested annually for this offense. (3) Similarly, current prevention and treatment efforts predominantly aim at abstinence. The policy approach to cannabis is fundamentally different from current approaches to other popular drugs like alcohol, where a public health approach instead focuses on high-risk users, risky use practices and settings, and especially on modifiable risk factors, to reduce harms to individuals and society. (4) Given that the majority of harms related to cannabis use appear to occur in selected high-risk users or in conjunction with high-risk use practices, a similar public health-oriented approach to cannabis use should be considered. (5) Such an approach would rely on targeted and health-oriented interventions mainly aimed at those users at high risk for harms, and not criminalization of use--and its limited effectiveness and undesirable side-effects--as the main intervention paradigm, therefore increasing benefits for society. (2) Recent surveys consistently show that a majority of Canadians (i.e., 50%) support the decriminalization of personal cannabis use. (6)

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