The community is eager to track the wide-ranging social, economic and health impacts of this historic shift in public policy.
Sometime later this year, if all goes as planned, Canada will usher in what University of Calgary health policy researcher Fiona Clement calls “the largest cultural change in my lifetime” – cannabis will cease to be an illegal drug, ending decades of prohibition. It is a development that few people would have thought possible just a few short years ago, and researchers across the country are eager to study the wide-ranging social, economic and health impacts of this momentous shift. Read more in University Affairs.