Crépault Jean-François
Communications and Partnerships, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Front Public Health. 2018 Aug 6;6:220. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00220. eCollection 2018.
The Canadian government is "taking a public health approach to legalizing, strictly regulating and restricting access to cannabis." There is, however, no universally accepted definition of a public health approach to cannabis. This paper presents what such an approach is, and is not, and discusses its applicability to legal psychoactive substances more generally. It critically reflects on the role of the public health sector in the governance of addictive substances and activities, noting its function of "responsibilizing" individuals and coaxing them to self-regulate-and the contradiction involved when other state actors involved in governance are actively inciting consumption of those substances and activities.
加拿大政府正在“采取公共卫生方法将大麻合法化、严格监管并限制其获取途径”。然而，对于针对大麻的公共卫生方法，目前尚无普遍认可的定义。本文阐述了这种方法是什么、不是什么，并更广泛地讨论了其对合法精神活性物质的适用性。它批判性地反思了公共卫生部门在成瘾性物质及活动治理中的作用，指出其让个人“承担责任”并促使他们自我监管的功能，以及当参与治理的其他国家行为体积极煽动对这些物质及活动的消费时所涉及的矛盾。
