PHGY 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Public Health, Harm Principle, Externality
29 Jun 2018
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Lecture 8 – Legalizing Cannabis Friday, March 16th, 2018
Short Essay Due: March 23rd, 2018
Paper Topic – Due by Next Week
Office Hours – Cancelled nest Friday but available Tuesday/Thursday
Presentation for Essay:
1. What is the purpose of your paper/what you hope to discover
2. What approach/perspective did you use to inform your presentation
3. Discussion in the body of the text of your paper
4. Then see if anyone has any questions or comments
Cannabis Policy – New Policy Area
- Legacy of institutional inequality, how drug policy disproportionately impacts women
- Michael DeVillaer – Chapter 6
1992: Canada Dug Strategy, conservative approach on drugs reducing demand and
death of drug use, effectiveness of treatment programs, restricting supply of drugs and
reducing the costs of substance abuse to society
Bill CA 1996: codifies Marijuana to be illegal even if under medical use, because its
illegal to have it in your possession and thus no mechanism in place to obtain it
1996-2007: only progress on Cannabis is solely within the judicial realm
- 1998: MS men supplied a fellow MS patient in Alberta with Cannabis and the court ruled an
acceptation to common law precedent that traffickers should receive a mandatory jail sentence,
and thus only a fine issued on the premise that the use of weed was for harm reduction of a
suffering patient
- Ontario Case individual held a medical certificate but had no means to obtain it,
- Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs argued the state has an onus to prove it is more harmful to
use marijuana than it would be the harm patients face in not being able to use it
Guest Skype-In – Lindsay
- Use of grassroots methods of advocacy within federal political parties to entrench marijuana
legalization as a mainstream discussion
- Convention from the Young Liberals Commission within the Liberal Party at large
- Numerous things done within the leadership, brought in people who were not originally part of
the party to advocate for this policy army of activists and turning it into platform to benefit the
party
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Document Summary
Office hours cancelled nest friday but available tuesday/thursday. Legacy of institutional inequality, how drug policy disproportionately impacts women. 1992: canada dug strategy, conservative approach on drugs reducing demand and death of drug use, effectiveness of treatment programs, restricting supply of drugs and reducing the costs of substance abuse to society. Bill ca 1996: codifies marijuana to be illegal even if under medical use, because its illegal to have it in your possession and thus no mechanism in place to obtain it. 1996-2007: only progress on cannabis is solely within the judicial realm. Ontario case individual held a medical certificate but had no means to obtain it, Senate committee on illegal drugs argued the state has an onus to prove it is more harmful to use marijuana than it would be the harm patients face in not being able to use it. Use of grassroots methods of advocacy within federal political parties to entrench marijuana legalization as a mainstream discussion.
