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Alleged drug offences remain among the most common reasons for criminal charges brought before the Calgary courts, even while attitudes towards drug use (especially marijuana) are undergoing a major shift.
Pharmaceutical drugs are one of the most important innovations of modern mankind, having saved countless lives and improved the quality of life for many more.
Drug use has long been a complex legal, social, medical/public health problem, not just in Calgary but throughout the world.
Drug offences remain some of the most common in the City of Calgary and throughout the Greater Calgary Area.
Laws banning or controlling access to certain substances have always been controversial.
More and more, drug addiction and drug use in Calgary and elsewhere in the world is being dealt with as a public health issue rather than a criminal problem.
Canada's new federal regulations involving medical marijuana have gone into effect, and Calgary was among the first Canadian cities to start putting these new regulations into action.