Key Information
CPHA has curated key documents and resources as a primer to a public health approach to cannabis. These documents include topics such as harm reduction, health promotion, health effects, regulatory frameworks and stigma as applied to cannabis and other substances.
Policy Frameworks
- A Public Health Approach to the Legalization, Regulation and Restriction of Access to Cannabis (CPHA)
- Public Health: A Conceptual Framework (CPHA)
- A New Approach to Managing Illegal Psychoactive Substances in Canada (CPHA)
- Cannabis Policy Framework (CAMH)
- Cannabis Regulation: Lessons Learned in Colorado and Washington State (CCSA)
- Growing at Home: Health and Safety Concerns for Personal Cannabis Cultivation (NCCEH)
Perceptions, Practice, and Stigma
- The World Drug Perception Problem: Countering Prejudices about People Who Use Drugs
- New Terrain: Tools to Integrate Trauma and Gender Informed Responses into Substance Use Practice and Policy
- Gender Informed Resources: Substance Use Field
- Doorways to Conversation: Brief Intervention on Substance Use with Girls and Women
- Brief Intervention on Substance Use with Girls and Women: 50 Ideas for Dialogue, Skill Building, and Empowerment
Health Promotion
Harm Reduction
- Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines: A Comprehensive Update of Evidence and Recommendations
- Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines for Canada: A Narrative Review of Evidence and Recommendations
- Learn About Cannabis
- Indigenous Harm Reduction Principles and Practices Fact Sheet
Health Effects
- Cannabis Health Effects
- The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine)
- Sex, Gender and Cannabis
Youth
- Cannabis: Information for Parents and Guardians (Ottawa Public Health)
- Chinese (traditional) and (simplified)
- Canadian Youth Perceptions on Cannabis (CCSA)
- The Effects of Cannabis Use During Adolescence (CCSA)
Last modified: February 26, 2019