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October 8, 2010
Report tracks ‘clear failure’ of cannabis prohibition
The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP) released today a new research report demonstrating “the clear failure of U.S. marijuana prohibition and supports calls for evidence-based models to legalize and regulate the use of cannabis." One of the authors is Benedikt Fischer of SFU Health Sciences and the Centre for Applied Research in Addictions and Mental Health.
Entitled Tools for debate: U.S. federal government data on cannabis prohibition, the report uses 20 years of data collected by surveillance systems funded by the U.S. government to highlight the failure of cannabis prohibition in America.
A British Medical Journal editorial concludes: "The evidence from Tools for Debate is not only that the prohibition system is not achieving its aims, but that more efforts in the same direction only worsen the results."
The report (PDF): http://at.sfu.ca/EsWfwS
British Medical Journal: http://at.sfu.ca/ddFrpR
Benedikt Fischer, (currently in Toronto, available via email) benedikt_fischer@sfu.ca
Mapping media exploitation of women
Even though women are politically more powerful today than they were before feminism took hold, they are at risk of being pushed into the dark ages by sex, media and money in today’s digital age. International artists, film industry leaders and policy-makers will explore that conundrum at a three-day symposium, SexMoneyMedia Oct 14-16 at the Harbour Centre campus. It’s being hosted by Women in View, a coalition of independent artists and professionals, and SFU’s School of Communication and Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies (GSWS).
Catherine Murray, GSWS chair, says society needs to address how the digital age is perpetuating and intensifying misogyny and sexual degradation of women in all forms of media, from film to podcasting. Symposium presenters and discussion panels will discuss why women still need to move into positions of control in conventional and new media production to stem society’s gratuitous sexualization of them.
http://www.womeninview.ca/
Catherine Murray, 604.838.5272, 778.782.5526; murraye@sfu.ca
The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP) released today a new research report demonstrating “the clear failure of U.S. marijuana prohibition and supports calls for evidence-based models to legalize and regulate the use of cannabis." One of the authors is Benedikt Fischer of SFU Health Sciences and the Centre for Applied Research in Addictions and Mental Health.
Entitled Tools for debate: U.S. federal government data on cannabis prohibition, the report uses 20 years of data collected by surveillance systems funded by the U.S. government to highlight the failure of cannabis prohibition in America.
A British Medical Journal editorial concludes: "The evidence from Tools for Debate is not only that the prohibition system is not achieving its aims, but that more efforts in the same direction only worsen the results."
The report (PDF): http://at.sfu.ca/EsWfwS
British Medical Journal: http://at.sfu.ca/ddFrpR
Benedikt Fischer, (currently in Toronto, available via email) benedikt_fischer@sfu.ca
Mapping media exploitation of women
Even though women are politically more powerful today than they were before feminism took hold, they are at risk of being pushed into the dark ages by sex, media and money in today’s digital age. International artists, film industry leaders and policy-makers will explore that conundrum at a three-day symposium, SexMoneyMedia Oct 14-16 at the Harbour Centre campus. It’s being hosted by Women in View, a coalition of independent artists and professionals, and SFU’s School of Communication and Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies (GSWS).
Catherine Murray, GSWS chair, says society needs to address how the digital age is perpetuating and intensifying misogyny and sexual degradation of women in all forms of media, from film to podcasting. Symposium presenters and discussion panels will discuss why women still need to move into positions of control in conventional and new media production to stem society’s gratuitous sexualization of them.
http://www.womeninview.ca/
Catherine Murray, 604.838.5272, 778.782.5526; murraye@sfu.ca