{"id":15914,"date":"2017-01-24T09:59:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T14:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=15914"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:46:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:46:51","slug":"recommendations-for-aligning-canadas-international-obligations-with-the-countrys-new-legal-framework-for-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/recommendations-for-aligning-canadas-international-obligations-with-the-countrys-new-legal-framework-for-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommendations for Aligning Canada\u2019s International Obligations with the Country\u2019s New Legal Framework for Cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"&#8221;<span lang=\"EN-GB\">As Canada prepares to enact legislation that will legalize and regulate cannabis, the government should begin to explore Canada\u2019s options for ensuring that the country\u2019s international legal obligations are brought into alignment with its new legal framework for cannabis. Canada\u2019s reform will inevitably involve entering into non-compliance with specific elements of the UN drug control treaties. This should not be regarded as an insurmountable obstacle to Canada\u2019s cannabis reform, but nor should it be denied or considered irrelevant. The outmoded treaty obligations that bind States to a counterproductive pursuit of cannabis prohibition are the problem, giving rise to the need for a <b>temporary, transitional period of what we would call &#8216;principled non-compliance,&#8217;<\/b>\u00a0accompanied by good-faith efforts to resolve this tension.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Recommendations for Aligning Canada\u2019s International Obligations with the Country\u2019s New Legal Framework for Cannabis\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/15911\/?tmstv=1776700166\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[147],"publication_type":[173],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-15914","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-drug-policy","publication_type-briefing-papers","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/15914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/15914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21614,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/15914\/revisions\/21614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=15914"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=15914"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=15914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}