Nov 20, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
It has been a year of drug policy change for Canada and many drug addictions experts are saying that this should just be the start. Those who work within addictions and frontline health services are looking towards the decriminalization of all drugs. This is seen not...
Nov 16, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
As the legalization of cannabis settles in, coming up on the one month mark, there are many challenges which have arisen in the legal sales arena. There have been issues across the country with the legal dispensaries, either online (ON) or store fronts (NB, QC)...
Nov 13, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Shoppers Drug Mart has begun a series of events which are being marketed to doctors as educational events which will give them the ability to “capably and confidently authorize medical cannabis for your patients”. So said the notice which was sent out to doctors...
Nov 9, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
The Canadian police forces in western Canada, with the help of the RCMP, have concluded a 10-month investigation ending with a major bust. Winnipeg police have seized nearly $3 million worth of illicit drugs and arrested ten people who face multiple drug trafficking...
Nov 6, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
Cannabis has now been legal in Canada for nearly three weeks but that doesn’t mean that the efficacy of roadside impairment testing is where it needs to be. Chief. Supt Dennis Daley of the RCMP told The Fifth Estate that the testing that currently exists for...
Oct 31, 2018 | Drug & Alcohol Testing News
There is growing concern in the prairies regarding the rise in the use of crystal meth due to fear over fentanyl deaths and it being a cheaper choice for users. Although opioid use continues to be a public-health crisis police in the prairies are saying that crystal...