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DESCRIPTION:April 26-27\, 2018 | Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (3644 Peel St.\, 
 Montreal\, QC)\n\nClick here to register! | General admission: $100 / Stud
 ent admission: $25\n\n**This conference has been accredited for 15 hours o
 f continuing legal education for jurists by a recognized provider.**\n\n\n
 	This two-day conference will offer attendees the chance to reflect on the 
 broad societal implications and policy challenges of marijuana legalizatio
 n\, and to learn from the experience of states and jurisdictions that have
  undergone similar legislative change. The IHSP has assembled a very disti
 nguished list of speakers\, including researchers\, industry professionals
 \, policy-makers\, and high-ranking government officials from Canada\, Por
 tugal\, and Uruguay\, who will help us to think through the challenges and
  opportunities that legalization will give rise to. These include public s
 afety and public health concerns\, workplace challenges\, economic implica
 tions\, and complex questions as to how best to put in place a legal marij
 uana market in a context where an illegal market already exists. \n\nClick
  here to view the schedule.\n\nInaugural speaker:\n\nBill Blair\, Member o
 f Parliament\, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice\, Attorn
 ey General of Canada and Minister of Health\n\n \n	Plenary speakers:\n\nJoã
 o Castel-Branco Goulão\, General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive
  Behaviours and Dependencies (SICAD)\, Portugal\n\nLeonardo Costa\, Brum &
  Costa\, Uruguay\n\nEthan Nadelmann\, founding and former executive direct
 or\, Drug Policy Alliance\, USA\n	 \n\nSpeakers:\n\nAkwasi Owusu-Bempah\, D
 epartment of Sociology\, University of Toronto\, Scarborough\n\nAlana Klei
 n\, Faculty of Law\, 91ºÚÁÏÍø\n\nAllison Christians\, Faculty of 
 Law\, 91ºÚÁÏÍø\n\nAnindya Sen\, Department of Economics\, Univers
 ity of Waterloo\n\nCaitlin Hughes\, Faculty of Medicine\, University of Ne
 w South Wales and National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre\n\nCam Battley
 \, Chief Corporate Officer\, Aurora Cannabis\n\nChief Gina Deer & Chief Rh
 onda Kirby\, Mohawk Council of Kahnawàke\n\nDavid Hammond\, CIHR Applied C
 hair in Public Health and Professor in the School of Public Health & Healt
 h Systems\, University of Waterloo\n\nGabriella Gobbi\, Department of Psyc
 hiatry\, 91ºÚÁÏÍø\n\nHanan Kolko\, Meyer Suozzi\n\nHannah Hetzer\
 , Drug Policy Alliance\n\nJonathan Zaid\, Canadians for Fair Access to Med
 ical Marijuana\n\nKia Faridi\, Department of Psychiatry\, 91ºÚÁÏÍø Universit
 y\n\nMagdalena Cerda\, Department of Emergency Medicine\, University of Ca
 lifornia\, Davis\n\nMalcolm Bird\, Department of Political Science\, The U
 niversity of Winnipeg\n\nFrançois Gagnon\, Institut national de santé publ
 ique du Québec\n\nMichael DeVillaer\, Department of Psychiatry\, McMaster 
 University\n\nRoojin Habibi\, Faculty of Law\, University of Ottawa\n\nSer
 ge Brochu\, Centre international de criminologie comparée\, Université de 
 Montréal\n\nSue Montgomery\, Mayor of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce\
 , City of Montréal\n\nStephen Easton\, Department of Economics\, Simon Fra
 ser University\n\nTahira Rehmatullah\, Managing Director\, Hypur Ventures
 \n\nVan Butsic\, Department of Environmental Science\, Policy & Management
 \, University of California (Berkeley)\n\nVardit Ravitsky\, Bioethics Prog
 rams\, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of the School of Publi
 c Health\, Université de Montréal\n\nVern White\, Senator & former chief o
 f the Ottawa Police Service\n
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180427
LOCATION:3644 Peel St.\, Montreal\, QC
SUMMARY:CONFERENCE - Legalizing Marijuana in Canada: Policy Challenges
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