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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 [...]

In the last few years, the Indian government has taken various steps to reform the patent filing process in India and strengthen the Indian IP ecosystem. In the latest series [...]

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 [...]

In the Union Budget 2023, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke about India taking big strides in enhancing the ease of doing business. The introduction of PAN as a single-point identifier [...]

The Queensland government has announced it will implement a decriminalised model of sex work, following a series of recommendations from the Queensland Law Reform Commission. The legal status of sex [...]

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: Kris Olson When a person's record includes a conviction for an incident that is no longer considered a crime, it should be simple and straightforward to get it removed. [...]

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 [...]