Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network – Drug Policy, Overdose Awareness, and the Federal Election

It’s been a busy summer for Canadians with federal election campaigns now well underway. Interestingly, harm reduction services, the legalization of cannabis, and drug policy writ large have been prominent issues in the news — and we hope these critical human rights issues will remain front and centre.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be connecting with each of the political parties to see where they stand on many of the issues we work on  — the issues you care about — and we’ll be sharing our findings with you shortly. In the meantime, we hope you’ll take a minute to peruse the following resources on drug policy, in Canada and abroad:

• Our Q&A on Bill C-2, the so-called Respect for Communities Act, which recently became law and affects the future operation of supervised consumption services in Canada; and
• The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy’s #CannabisClaims reports.