CRI210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Louise Arbour, Opiate, Insite
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Winter term: governments can also regulate advertising or prohibit advertising altogether, governments can tax drugs to discourage their excessive use. A century of using the criminal law and prohibition : before 1908. Insite, in vancouver, and it supported heroin maintenance trial projects in vancouver and. In short, the conservative government in power since 2006 has taken a highly punitive line, apart from the recent hint that it might consider lower penalties for cannabis possession. In may 2010 the head of the u. s. office of national drug control policy acknowledged this: the successful constitutional challenge to the attempt by the current conservative government to shut down vancouver"s insite is a case in point. Instead of relying on parliament to fix the broken drug-control system, returns advocates have increasingly turned to the courts. Alternatives to prohibition: several groups have described regulatory models that could replace prohibition.