Low-Risk Cannabis Use on Campus
Webinar Registration
Overview
We are very excited to be offering an enhanced version of the webinar: Putting the Pieces Together: Low-Risk Cannabis Use on Campus. This webinar will coincide with April 20, 2015 or “4:20â€, a timely contribution on a topic that may be on some of the minds of our campus stakeholders. The current atmosphere around cannabis on Canadian campuses and in society is quite hazy. This is partly the result of conflicting messages around the impact of consumption on those who use the substance.
This webinar will aim to dispel some of the haze. It will consider incidence, motivations for and effects of use, offer some suggestions on content for communication to encourage lower-risk practice among those who decide to use cannabis, and allude to means through which that messaging can be shared on campus.
We will be holding a Q&A session with Dr. Tara Lyons, intended to offer our community members another perspective on promoting healthier cannabis use on campus. Dr. Lyons is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC in the Urban Health Research Initiative & Gender and Sexual Health Initiative. She is a founding member and served on the national executive for Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
Learning Objectives
Become familiar with both micro and macro level factors that influence cannabis use both on and off campus
Consider the beneficial and harmful aspects of cannabis use and how these aspects impact decisions that influence use on campus
Explore the role of prevailing attitudes and current legislature when creating campus cannabis use policies
Become familiar with the Paradox of Prohibition Curve and the tradeoffs around various substance use policies
Explore areas for action on campus around cannabis, including managing accessibility, quality control, information brokering, contexts for use, policy and messaging
Facilitators
This webinar will be led by Tim Dyck and Catriona Remocker from the Centre of Addictions Research of British Columbia (CARBC).
