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Bill Blair announces $24.5 million in funding for cannabis research

Kirk Smol by Kirk Smol
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Bill Blair announces $24.5 million in funding for cannabis research

On Wednesday (May 22), Canada’s point man on legalization Bill Blair met with researchers at the University of Calgary to announce a swell in funding for cannabis research.

The minister of organized crime reduction and former Toronto police chief says $24.5 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research is allotted to studying cannabis use and its effects.

“That research across the country is going to help Canadians make healthier, safer choices, it’s going to help our kids,” Blair told reporters.

The money will finance 26 projects across the country, including over $500,000 allocated to the research department at the university where the announcement was made.

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Dr. Rebecca Haines-Saah, an assistant professor at U of C, will head the project and says her institution’s studies seek to explore the role of cannabis in treating migraines and hyperemesis, as well as various youth harm reduction methods.

‘We’ve known for some time that “just say no” is not an effective strategy,’ she told the media.

‘Now, we’re trying to mobilize different messages.”

Minister @BillBlair meets with CSM students and associate professor @RebeccaSaah for round table discussion on harm reduction. pic.twitter.com/FGkB2yhWxl— UCalgaryMedicine (@UCalgaryMed) May 22, 2019

Haines-Saah says she wants her research, which is expected to be complete by April 2020, to investigate reducing youth exposure in marginalized communities.

“We need the work of these researchers,” added Blair.

“We need evidence-based information in policy so that those discussions can be informed not by myth, and not by people who are just trying to make a buck off the most vulnerable people in our society, but by people who care about our kids and care about our communities.’

He also announced three additional sources of funding:

  • $4.5 million from the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction to investigate the impact of new drug laws on public health;
  • $2.85 million from the Mental Health Commission of Canada to fill gaps in research;
  • And $390,000 allocated to two public awareness campaigns in Alberta.

With this recent surge of funding, Canada is set to join countries long-since invested in cannabinoid research, like Isreal, Spain, and the Netherlands.

“It makes us a leader in the world because the world is looking to Canada, [which] is now a place where research can take place,” said Blair.

Kirk Smol

Kirk Smol

Kirk's journey through the digital realm began with lines of code and algorithms dancing in his dreams. Armed with a keyboard and an insatiable curiosity, he embarked on the path of software engineering. However, fate had a smoky twist in store for him. As the ones and zeros swirled around him, Kirk had an epiphany – he realized that he was more interested in the highs and lows of the cannabis industry than debugging lines of code. With a leap of faith that would make a bungee jumper blush, he bid farewell to the world of semicolons and database queries and embraced the intoxicating allure of cannabis journalism. Now, Kirk finds himself navigating a different kind of network, one that's all about buds, trichomes, and terpenes. Armed with a pen that's mightier than a vaporizer and a keen eye for detail, he's on a mission to unravel the mysteries of the green world.

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