CAMH media advisory on cannabis legalization
TORONTO, Oct. 15, 2018 /CNW/ - On Wednesday, October 17, Canada will officially become the second country in the world (after Uruguay) to fully legalize the consumption and sale of recreational cannabis nationwide.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has produced a digital resource guide on cannabis legalization, and has a variety of experts available for interviews on a range of topics.
Dr. Peter Selby - Clinician Scientist, Addictions Division and Director, Medical Education
- Education on harm reduction and substance use disorder
Dr. Romina Mizrahi - Head, Focus on Youth Psychosis Prevention Clinic, Head, Psychosis PET program and Clinician Scientist, Research Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute
- Potential impact on the developing brain and risk for psychosis
Dr. Isabelle Boileau - Scientist and Head, Addiction Imaging Research Group, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute
- Brain imaging to study what happens when it is under the influence of cannabis
Dr. Bernard Le Foll - Clinician Scientist and Head, Translational Addiction Research Laboratory, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute.
- Education on harm reduction and substance use disorder
Dr. Benedikt Fischer - Senior Scientist, Institute for Mental Health Policy Research
- Effects of cannabis use and health/social outcomes, policy change/models/options, prevention and treatment interventions for cannabis, overall cannabis use and public health
Dr. Robert Mann - Senior Scientist, Institute for Mental Health Policy Research
- Cannabis and driving
Dr. Tony P. George - Chief, Addictions Division, Clinician Scientist and Head, Biobehavioural Addictions and Concurrent Disorders Research Laboratory, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute
- Cannabis and mental illness
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world's leading research centres in its field. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues. CAMH is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. For more information, please follow @CAMHnews or @CAMHResearch on Twitter
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