Legalization and regulation are seen as best way to reduce harm.

By Paige Desmond, Record Reporter

Fri., Feb. 11, 2022
https://www.therecord.com/news...egalizing-drugs.html

Tuesday February 1, 2022
7pm to 9:30pm Eastern

Canada’s prohibitionist narcotic laws are 114 years old, actively criminalizing certain substances and, disproportionately, certain people. Decades of evidence indicates that criminalization via prohibition is expensive and harmful – and a clear barrier to eliminating Canada’s chronic drug poisoning crisis that kills 19 people every day.

Join esteemed leaders from civil society and municipal government in a discussion of their upstream efforts to improve everyone’s health, safety and well-being with drug laws and policies grounded in equity, and built for the 21st century.

Panel:

• Natasha Touesnard, Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs
• Sandra Ka Hon Chu , Canadian HIV/Aids Legal Network
• Alicia Neufeld, Toronto Public Health
  
  
• Moderated by Michael Parkinson, Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council

Details and Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/re...tration-205675118817

Presented by:
Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council (WRCPC)

Check out other upcoming events as part of WRCPC’s Upstream Speaker Series at: https://preventingcrime.ca/upstream-speaker-series/