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Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER -- Canada's Federal Court has agreed with British Columbia's Minister of Mental Health and Addictions that she should be a respondent to a court challenge [...]

Byline: CAMPBELL CLARK; Staff Canadians can see why drug policy has become a big political issue. The opioids epidemic is tragic and visible. People suffering from life-altering addiction can be [...]

Byline: MARCUS GEE; Staff Larry Campbell has seen Canada's drug crisis up close. As an RCMP drug-squad cop in the 1970s, he watched heroin flood the streets of Vancouver. As [...]

British Columbia's partial retreat from an experiment to decriminalize drug possession reveals a political shift in Canada over combating the opioid crisis. The mood was cautiously optimistic and the message [...]

British Columbia Premier David Eby promised his government would not abandon people with drug addictions when he rolled back decriminalization in the province. There would be better, more consistent care [...]

British Columbia's New Democratic Party government's blind spot on public safety was on display this week, with the promise of a task force to draft a policy around open use [...]

Byline: Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY Hawaii's state Senate made headlines last month after overwhelmingly approving a bill to legalize recreational marijuana by 2026, but its passage into law is far [...]

Byline: IRENE GALEA; Staff The German parliament has voted to decriminalize recreational cannabis, laying the groundwork for full legalization by the end of the decade and signalling a significant shift [...]

In February 2021, Oregon decriminalized possession of small amounts of all drugs, via a ballot initiative known as Measure 110. The idea was to treat addiction as a public health [...]

Byline: GARY MASON; Staff VANCOUVER -- When the B.C. government convinced Ottawa to allow the province to commence a three-year experiment to decriminalize the possession of hard drugs, it believed [...]

Byline: FRANCES BULA British Columbia city councillors and mayors have voted to ask the province to expand a ban on illicit drug possession and use near areas where children are [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER -- Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry is urging patience from British Columbia's municipal leaders on drug decriminalization, saying more arrests won't address the complex [...]

More than a decade ago, I met a scared 15-year-old who was trying to recover her life after having been kidnapped by a pimp and sold for sex. Melanie Thompson [...]

It is a curiosity of the law that you can legally sit in a Toronto park, roll a joint and start puffing away - but if you crack open a [...]

Byline: GARY MASON; Staff VANCOUVER -- An hour down the road from Vancouver is the U.S. port city of Bellingham, Wash. Known for its craft beer and hippie vibe, it [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto has updated its 14month-old decriminalization request to the federal government, clarifying it wants a Health Canada exemption to cover young people as well as adults, [...]

Byline: IAN BAILEY; Staff Vancouver's mayor criticized federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for making comments that depicted the decriminalization of drugs in B.C. as a failure and described parts of [...]

Byline: BENEDIKT FISCHER VANCOUVER -- British Columbia-based senior addiction and public health researcher The illicit drug death crisis in British Columbia is mercilessly raging on. More than 2,000 individuals, mostly [...]

Byline: Amanda Coletta HAMILTON, Bermuda - The idea was to bring Bermuda's drug laws into the 21st century. The cannabis laws in Britain's oldest overseas territory harmed Black islanders disproportionately, [...]

Byline: LEILA RAFI, SASA JARVIS Partners at McMillan LLP, working in the Capital Markets and M&A Group. They work with clients, including investors, companies and private-equity funds, in the psychedelics [...]

Byline: Erin Cunningham The Supreme Court's decision Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade and scrap the constitutional right to an abortion has placed the United States among a select few [...]

Byline: Amanda Coletta TORONTO - The possession of small amounts of several illicit drugs, including cocaine and opioids such as fentanyl or heroin, will be temporarily decriminalized in British Columbia, [...]

Democrats, with some Republican support, voted 220-204 to remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances, moving to catch up to the states. WASHINGTON -- The House passed legislation [...]

Byline: Felicia Sonmez and Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - The House on Friday passed legislation that would remove marijuana from the federal schedule of controlled substances, a move that comes as [...]

The court's decision follows years of organizing by women across Latin America for greater protections and more rights, and significant shifts in the region's legal landscape. BOGOTÁ, Colombia -- Having [...]

When I took my first client as a sex worker in the 1980s, I had no other choice. It was right after the fall of the dictatorship in Argentina. As [...]

There are two competing bills in New York: One would punish pimps and customers, while the other would decriminalize the entire trade. TS Candii first traded sex at age 13, [...]

Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, offered draft legislation to remove marijuana from the list of controlled substances and begin regulating and taxing it. WASHINGTON -- Senator Chuck Schumer of [...]

Taking their cue from Trump, absolutists are going all out to overturn Roe v. Wade. South Carolina last month became the latest state to pass a so-called heartbeat ban, criminalizing [...]

Byline: ANDREA WOO, Staff VANCOUVER -- Lead British Columbia is seeking approval from Ottawa to become the first province where possession of small amounts of illicit drugs is not a [...]

Byline: MATTHEW DALY, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Lead The Democratic-controlled House on Friday approved a bill to decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level, reversing what supporters call a [...]

Lead On Wednesday morning, the BC Coroners Service issued its latest grim news: Illicit drug toxicity killed 162 people in October in British Columbia. It had been another brutal month, [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER -- Lead Councillors in Vancouver have voted unanimously to ask the federal government to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. Mayor Kennedy Stewart [...]

Byline: ANDREA WOO, Staff VANCOUVER -- Lead Vancouver would become the first Canadian city to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs under a new proposal aimed at [...]

There were 38 statewide citizen initiatives being decided across the country on Tuesday, about half the level of the last presidential election. OAKLAND, Calif. -- The march to decriminalize drugs [...]

The coronavirus pandemic has put a dent in the signature-gathering process, but voters still managed to put forward dozens of measures nationwide. SAN FRANCISCO -- If ever there was a [...]

Byline: Justin Wm. Moyer Melissa Lavasani took 'microdoses' of illegal psychedelic mushrooms to recover from postpartum depression in 2018. After her condition improved, she wanted others to have access to [...]