Guy Felicella, a harm reduction and recovery expert in British Columbia, says all regions in Canada need to persevere with treating substance addictions as a health issue.
Decriminalizing drugs can make them safer, but not always, and reduce some harms of using drugs. What cannot be resolved ...
Critics say the focus on decriminalization is an unhelpful distraction from the lack of progress on other solutions to the ...
As British Columbia throws in the towel on its experiment of decriminalizing hard drugs, admitting defeat in liberalizing its ...
The federal government has rejected a request from Toronto to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illegal drugs ...
The Ontario government says it is "100 per cent opposed" to Toronto Public Health's bid to have small amounts of illegal ...
Toronto’s attempt to decriminalize possession of small amounts of hard drugs has no hope of success, the head of the city’s health board conceded Thursday, because Ottawa is unwilling to ...
The Toronto Board of Health’s push to legalize illicit drugs — following the disastrous pilot project in British Columbia — ...
The federal government has rejected Toronto's request to decriminalize simple possession of small amounts of drugs for ...
Toronto's bid to decriminalize the possession of illegal drugs for personal use has been plunged into uncertainty in recent days, as drug policy experts suggest political debates over British ...
Drug addiction researchers and advocates for a comprehensive, health-based approach say decriminalization needs time to work, ...