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Outreach project linked to higher rates of drug treatment among street-based sex workers
October 27, 2010 | Westender
Street-based prostitutes working in Vancouver’s isolated areas are more likely to seek addiction treatment if they receive frontline support from other sex workers, a new BC-CfE study has found.
7 Tips for California: How to Make Legalizing Marijuana Smart
October 27, 2010 | TIME.com
What would be the best way to legally control marijuana? TIME.com offers proposed regulations, with comments from drug-policy experts, including the BC-CfE's Dr. Evan Wood.
The failure of cannabis prohibition: Dr. Evan Wood interview
October 18, 2010 | Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Dr. Evan Wood, director of the BC-CfE's International Centre for Science in Drug Policy argues that cannabis prohibition and the war on drugs have been major policy failures.
The promise of legalization
October 16, 2010 | Los Angeles Times
The BC-CfE's Dr. Evan Wood argues that science and empirical research have been given short shrift in the discussion around California's upcoming ballot measure to regulate, control, and tax cannabis.
Van patrol helps Vancouver sex workers access drug treatment: study
October 14, 2010 | The Globe and Mail
A special outreach van driven by former sex-trade workers has become a meaningful route for prostitutes to get drug treatment, according to a new BC-CfE study.
CBC Early Edition interview: Dr. Kate Shannon
October 13, 2010 | CBC.ca
Dr. Kate Shannon, director of the BC-CfE's Gender and Sexual Health Initiative, speaks with CBC's Early Edition about the findings of a new study demonstrating the effectiveness of a mobile outreach van for sex workers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
CKNW - The Bill Good Show: Dr. Kate Shannon interview
October 13, 2010 | CKNW
Dr. Kate Shannon explains the findings of a new study demonstrating the benefits of mobile harm reduction services for sex-trade workers.
Van patrol helps Vancouver sex workers access drug treatment: study
October 13, 2010
A study of Vancouver's drug-plagued Downtown Eastside has found that prostitutes there were more likely to seek addiction treatment if other women in the industry showed them the way.
Study suggests US should decriminalise cannabis
October 8, 2010 | Financial Times
A new study by the BC-CfE's International Centre for Science in Drug Policy demonstrates that prohibition of cannabis has increased the drug's availability and potency while failing to reduce its use.
The case for legalizing marijuana
October 7, 2010 | The Globe and Mail
A new report by the BC-CfE's International Centre for Science in Drug Policy demonstrates the abject failure of marijuana prohibition in the United States.