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In an attempt to combat stigmas and barriers associated with substance-use, the province has set out on a three-year project to decriminalize the personal use of drugs, allowing the small possession of certain illicit substances.
The Vancouver Island Drug Checking Project finds a new home Eventual expansion put on hold as project seeks Health Canada exemptions The Vancouver Island Drug Checking Project, an interdisciplinary collaboration between the University of Victoria and Health Canada, has a new home. Following months of moving around in conjunction with provincial health orders, the project recently opened up their own storefront at 1802 Cook Street, near Royal Athletic Park. The project offers anonymous drug-checking services to community members and provides non-judgemental answers to those seeking to learn mo...
A team of researchers from the University of Victoria have developed an AI system capable of determining the expected chemical makeup of drugs. While it involves supercomputers and a robust cocktail of cloud-based machine learning technologies, the ultimate goal is to make it dead-simple for just about anyone to tell what’s in their drugs. Approximately […]