{"id":17213,"date":"2018-10-17T09:23:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=17213"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:16:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:16:15","slug":"statement-legal-regulation-of-cannabis-a-welcome-step-forward","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/statement-legal-regulation-of-cannabis-a-welcome-step-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Legal regulation of cannabis a welcome step forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<b>October 17, 2018 <\/b><b>\u2014<\/b> Today marks an important step forward in Canada\u2019s drug policy, as the legal regulation of cannabis for non-medical purposes takes effect. The Legal Network welcomes this important development toward sensible drug policy, but more must be done to uphold the health and human rights of people who use drugs in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Canada must undertake a deeper rethinking of its drug laws and policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Legal regulation of cannabis a welcome step forward\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/17210\/?tmstv=1776674330\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 17, 2018 \u2014 Today marks an important step forward in Canada\u2019s drug policy, as the legal regulation of cannabis for non-medical purposes takes effect. The Legal Network welcomes this important development toward sensible drug policy, but more must be done to uphold the health and human rights of people who use drugs in this &#8230; <a title=\"Statement: Legal regulation of cannabis a welcome step forward\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/statement-legal-regulation-of-cannabis-a-welcome-step-forward\/\" aria-label=\"More on Statement: Legal regulation of cannabis a welcome step forward\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[147],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-17213","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-drug-policy","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17218,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17213\/revisions\/17218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=17213"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=17213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}