Dr. Matthew Hill

I think some of them certainly would fall under the criteria of cannabis use disorder because if you start looking and say, well, you know, if you travel to like – Egypt. Are you going to go put yourself at risk of going to jail to get access to cannabis because you can't function without it? If you do, then yeah, you've got cannabis use disorder. Are you going to burn relationships?

Are you going to start failing at meeting responsibilities or getting things done on time because you're preoccupied with cannabis? yes, you're going to hit the criteria for cannabis use disorder. If it's someone who's kind of just intermittently using it the same way that a lot of people casually use alcohol, I would say a lot of them probably wouldn't hit criteria.

Are you going to start failing at meeting responsibilities or getting things done on time because you're preoccupied with cannabis? yes, you're going to hit the criteria for cannabis use disorder. If it's someone who's kind of just intermittently using it the same way that a lot of people casually use alcohol, I would say a lot of them probably wouldn't hit criteria.

Are you going to start failing at meeting responsibilities or getting things done on time because you're preoccupied with cannabis? yes, you're going to hit the criteria for cannabis use disorder. If it's someone who's kind of just intermittently using it the same way that a lot of people casually use alcohol, I would say a lot of them probably wouldn't hit criteria.

But I think to someone who has never had cannabis in their inner circle or in their life, they look at it like a drug like cocaine, whereas they're like, wow, if you were using cocaine on a daily basis, we'd be super concerned about you. And so I think that's this like...

But I think to someone who has never had cannabis in their inner circle or in their life, they look at it like a drug like cocaine, whereas they're like, wow, if you were using cocaine on a daily basis, we'd be super concerned about you. And so I think that's this like...

But I think to someone who has never had cannabis in their inner circle or in their life, they look at it like a drug like cocaine, whereas they're like, wow, if you were using cocaine on a daily basis, we'd be super concerned about you. And so I think that's this like...

It's just as you go – I mean cannabis is in this really weird transitionary period I would say of going from illicit to not just because of the changes in the legal regulatory framework. I mean in Canada now we're like five and a half years into legalization.

It's just as you go – I mean cannabis is in this really weird transitionary period I would say of going from illicit to not just because of the changes in the legal regulatory framework. I mean in Canada now we're like five and a half years into legalization.

It's just as you go – I mean cannabis is in this really weird transitionary period I would say of going from illicit to not just because of the changes in the legal regulatory framework. I mean in Canada now we're like five and a half years into legalization.

So in many ways I would say the transition has happened where a lot of people view cannabis very similarly to alcohol whereas you go to some states and the perspective is still very different. Certainly if you're still in one of the states where there's no legal access, people still look at cannabis the same way they look at a lot of other – illicit drugs like cocaine or amphetamines or things.

So in many ways I would say the transition has happened where a lot of people view cannabis very similarly to alcohol whereas you go to some states and the perspective is still very different. Certainly if you're still in one of the states where there's no legal access, people still look at cannabis the same way they look at a lot of other – illicit drugs like cocaine or amphetamines or things.

So in many ways I would say the transition has happened where a lot of people view cannabis very similarly to alcohol whereas you go to some states and the perspective is still very different. Certainly if you're still in one of the states where there's no legal access, people still look at cannabis the same way they look at a lot of other – illicit drugs like cocaine or amphetamines or things.

It's ironic, yeah, sadly. It's very, I mean... Obviously, a big push for legalization is not endorsement of the safety of cannabis. It's more the harms associated with prohibition outweigh the harms associated with legalization. I think that's generally the public health perspective. That's certainly what motivated it in Canada. And there was a –

It's ironic, yeah, sadly. It's very, I mean... Obviously, a big push for legalization is not endorsement of the safety of cannabis. It's more the harms associated with prohibition outweigh the harms associated with legalization. I think that's generally the public health perspective. That's certainly what motivated it in Canada. And there was a –

It's ironic, yeah, sadly. It's very, I mean... Obviously, a big push for legalization is not endorsement of the safety of cannabis. It's more the harms associated with prohibition outweigh the harms associated with legalization. I think that's generally the public health perspective. That's certainly what motivated it in Canada. And there was a –

some attempts, let's say, at restorative justice in terms of removing criminal records and things may not have been entirely as successful as people had hoped it would be, but it certainly has changed things. I mean, we can look at our federal data and see that arrest rates related to cannabis are obviously very low compared to what they were.

some attempts, let's say, at restorative justice in terms of removing criminal records and things may not have been entirely as successful as people had hoped it would be, but it certainly has changed things. I mean, we can look at our federal data and see that arrest rates related to cannabis are obviously very low compared to what they were.

some attempts, let's say, at restorative justice in terms of removing criminal records and things may not have been entirely as successful as people had hoped it would be, but it certainly has changed things. I mean, we can look at our federal data and see that arrest rates related to cannabis are obviously very low compared to what they were.

That obviously becomes very important because there are clearly minoritized communities. They get hit more with this than other communities. And so the kind of perpetual disenfranchisement that happens with a prohibition model in communities that are already suffering from various other things that affect them just potentiates all that.