The latest news articles featuring BC Centre on Substance Use.
Aboriginal street youth in Vancouver experience elevated risk of incarceration
October 07, 2015 | Vancity Buzz
Aboriginal street youth in Vancouver are 1.4 times more likely to end up in jail, compared to non-Aboriginal street youth, a new study has found. The study, released by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, collected data from 1050 street youth between September 2005 and May 2013, determining wh...
Experts refute Harper’s claim pot is more dangerous than tobacco
October 06, 2015 | The Globe and Mail
Is cannabis, as Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper claims, “infinitely worse” than tobacco, a substance that kills tens of thousands of Canadians each year? Definitely not, say medical researchers and addiction experts, who are refuting Mr. Harper’s provocative comparison b...
Canada’s PM says weed is ‘infinitely worse’ than tobacco and experts call bullshit
October 05, 2015 | VICE News
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told reporters that marijuana is “infinitely worse” than tobacco – a claim that was widely dismissed by public health experts. The comment was made at a press conference on Saturday, after the final federal leaders’ debate of the Canadia...
Marijuana advocates warn NDP plans for decriminalization would leave organized crime in control
September 21, 2015 | The Georgia Straight
In November 2001, Kash Heed stood before the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs and outlined why his police department had essentially stopped arresting people for marijuana possession. “It was de facto decriminalization,” the retired commanding officer of the Vancouver police dru...
Psychedelics could trigger a ‘paradigm shift’ in mental health care
September 17, 2015 | The Huffington Post
Is American medicine on the brink of a psychedelic revolution? It’s seeming more and more likely. A scientific review of the existing research into the therapeutic applications of psychedelics, published last week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, highlights the enormous potential o...
