{"id":20031,"date":"2021-11-29T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/?p=20031"},"modified":"2022-09-30T00:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T04:18:45","slug":"letter-to-eileen-de-villa-re-torontos-submission-to-health-canada-for-a-section-56-exemption-to-the-controlled-drugs-and-substances-act","status":"publish","type":"blog22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/letter-to-eileen-de-villa-re-torontos-submission-to-health-canada-for-a-section-56-exemption-to-the-controlled-drugs-and-substances-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Eileen de Villa re: Toronto\u2019s submission to Health Canada for a section 56 exemption to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act"},"content":{"rendered":"Today, November 29, Toronto&#8217;s Medical Officer of Health has proposed a new model for drug policy \u2014 you can read more about the Toronto model here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/legdocs\/mmis\/2021\/hl\/bgrd\/backgroundfile-173568.pdf\">https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/legdocs\/mmis\/2021\/hl\/bgrd\/backgroundfile-173568.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are pleased that drug decriminalization is being considered and that the process is beginning. You can read our assessment of the Toronto model <a href=\"..\/download\/20033\/\">here<\/a>. It&#8217;s time for decriminalization in Toronto \u2014 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Download our letter to Dr. de Villa:<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"HLN-TPH-decrim-submission-Nov29_2021.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/20033\/?tmstv=1776396017\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","publication_topics":[147],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-20031","blog22","type-blog22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-drug-policy","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog22\/20031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=20031"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=20031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}