2018 Marijuana Conference

Registration: purchase your tickets online

New Chancellor Day Hall, Maxwell Cohen Moot Court room 100, Faculty of Law, McGill University, 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, Canada

Price: Students: 25$. General admission: 100$

Organized by McGill's Institute for Health and Social Policy, this conference is a chance to reflect on the broad societal implications and policy challenges of the Canadian federal government’s decision to legalize marijuana and to learn from the experience of states and jurisdictions that have undergone similar legislative change.

The conference will examine all aspects of the policy challenges that face Canada as it moves to legalize marijuana – from clinical considerations to do with health, to public safety, to Canada’s international legal obligations and the economic and political implications of legalization.

We will hear from academics, policy-makers and high-ranking government officials from Canada, Portugal and Uruguay.

Panelists will discuss themes such as Health Outcomes and Marijuana Legalization; Community Responses; Harm Reduction; and Marijuana Legalization: Economic Implications. The program is still being finalized.

Inaugural speaker:

Bill Blair, Member of Parliament, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, Attorney General of Canada and Minister of Health

Plenary speakers:

João Castel-Branco Goulão, General Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (SICAD), Portugal

Leonardo Costa, Brum & Costa, Uruguay

Ethan Nadelmann, founding and former executive director, Drug Policy Alliance, USA
 

Speakers:

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Scarborough

Alana Klein, Faculty of Law, McGill University

Allison Christians, Faculty of Law, McGill University

Anindya Sen, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo

Caitlin Hughes, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales and National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre

Cam Battley, Chief Corporate Officer, Aurora Cannabis

Chief Gina Deer & Chief Rhonda Kirby, Mohawk Council of Kahnawàke

David Hammond, CIHR Applied Chair in Public Health and Professor in the School of Public Health & Health Systems, University of Waterloo

Gabriella Gobbi, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University

Hanan Kolko, Meyer Suozzi

Hannah Hetzer, Drug Policy Alliance

Jonathan Zaid, Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana

Kia Faridi, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University

Magdalena Cerda, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis

Malcolm Bird, Department of Political Science, The University of Winnipeg

François Gagnon, Institut national de santé publique du Québec

Michael DeVillaer, Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University

Roojin Habibi, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa

Serge Brochu, Centre international de criminologie comparée, Université de Montréal

Sue Montgomery, Mayor of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, City of Montréal

Stephen Easton, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University

Tahira Rehmatullah, Managing Director, Hypur Ventures

Van Butsic, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California (Berkeley)

Vardit Ravitsky, Bioethics Programs, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of the School of Public Health, Université de Montréal

Vern White, Senator & former chief of the Ottawa Police Service

**This conference has been accredited for 15.25 hours of continuing legal education by a recognized provider.**