2018 Marijuana Conference
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New Chancellor Day Hall, Maxwell Cohen Moot Court room 100, Faculty of Law, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University, 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, Canada
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Price:ÌýStudents: 25$. General admission: 100$
Organized by ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's Institute for Health and Social Policy, this conference is a chance to reflect on the broad societal implications and policy challenges of the Canadian federal government’s decision to legalize marijuana and to learn from the experience of states and jurisdictions that have undergone similar legislative change.
The conference will examine all aspects of the policy challenges that face Canada as it moves to legalize marijuana – from clinical considerations to do with health, to public safety, to Canada’s international legal obligations and the economic and political implications of legalization.
We will hear from academics, policy-makers and high-ranking government officials from Canada, Portugal and Uruguay.
Panelists will discuss themes such as Health Outcomes and Marijuana Legalization; Community Responses; Harm Reduction; and Marijuana Legalization: Economic Implications. The program is still being finalized.
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Inaugural speaker:
Bill Blair,ÌýMember of Parliament, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, Attorney General of Canada and Minister of Health
Plenary speakers:
João Castel-Branco Goulão, General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (SICAD), Portugal
Leonardo Costa, Brum & Costa, Uruguay
Ethan Nadelmann, founding and former executive director, Drug Policy Alliance, USA
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Speakers:
Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Scarborough
Alana Klein, Faculty of Law, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University
Allison Christians, Faculty of Law, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University
Anindya Sen, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo
Caitlin Hughes, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales and National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
Cam Battley, Chief Corporate Officer, Aurora Cannabis
ChiefÌýGina DeerÌý& ChiefÌýRhonda Kirby, Mohawk Council of Kahnawà ke
David Hammond, CIHR Applied Chair in Public Health and Professor in the School of Public Health & Health Systems, University of Waterloo
Gabriella Gobbi, Department of Psychiatry, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University
Hanan Kolko, Meyer Suozzi
Hannah Hetzer, Drug Policy Alliance
Jonathan Zaid, Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana
Kia Faridi, Department of Psychiatry, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University
Magdalena Cerda,ÌýDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis
Malcolm Bird, Department of Political Science, The University of Winnipeg
François Gagnon, Institut national de santé publique du Québec
Michael DeVillaer, Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University
Roojin Habibi, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Serge Brochu,ÌýCentre international de criminologie comparée, Université de Montréal
Sue Montgomery, Mayor of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, City of Montréal
Stephen Easton, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University
Tahira Rehmatullah, Managing Director, Hypur Ventures
Van Butsic, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California (Berkeley)
Vardit Ravitsky, Bioethics Programs, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of the School of Public Health, Université de Montréal
Vern White, Senator & former chief of the Ottawa Police Service
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**This conference has been accredited for 15.25 hours of continuing legal education by a recognized provider.**