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Canada is a producer and exporter of both cannabis and ecstasy, a trend that harsher penalties for those caught has failed to stop. [19] Recently, the idea of drug courts has gained popularity in Canada, numbering in the hundreds. These drug courts attempt to divert those that violate controlled drugs regulations from prisons into treatment ...
Eby expects drug decriminalization will be an issue in the Oct. 19 provincial election. Oregon, the first U.S. state to decriminalize illicit drugs, recently reversed course and reinstated ...
Canada’s government said Tuesday it will allow British Columbia to try a three-year experiment in decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs, seeking to stem a record number of ...
Canada's federal government is considering decriminalization of the possession of opioids and other illicit drugs in its efforts to tackle a spiraling overdose crisis, a government official said ...
The three treaties are complementary and mutually supportive. [1] They serve to maintain a classification system of controlled substances, including psychoactive drugs and plants, and chemical precursors, to ensure the regulated supply of those substances determined to be useful for medical and scientific purposes, and to otherwise prevent production, distribution and use, with some limited ...
Drug policy in the Netherlands is based on two principles: that drug use is a health issue, not a criminal issue, and that there is a distinction between hard and soft drugs. It was also one of the first countries to introduce heroin-assisted treatment and safe injection sites . [ 40 ]
Canada is the second country (after Uruguay) to legalize the drug. [33] As expected, the use of cannabis for recreational purposes became legal across the country on October 17, 2018, under the Cannabis Act. [34] Persons aged 18 or older can possess up to 30 grams of dried or “equivalent non-dried form” in public.
The Canadian Forces Drug Control Program is a series of regulations established in 1992 to prevent drug use among members of the Canadian Forces (CF), under the broad regulation-making auspices of section 12 of the National Defence Act (NDA). It prohibits CF members from involvement with most drugs, except alcohol and tobacco, purportedly to ...