Nurses say Ontarians need a $48M cannabis health lesson

CalyxCrusher

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/nurses-cannabis-public-education-ontario-1.4492226

Canadian Nurses Association also asking for funding to train nurses for upcoming legalization
CBC News Posted: Jan 18, 2018 6:48 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 18, 2018 6:48 AM ET


The Canadian Nurses Association wants the Ontario government to pitch in $600,000 to train nurses before marijuana becomes legal later this year and $48 million to teach the public about health risks. (CBC)






The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) is asking the province for $48 million over five years for a public education campaign to reduce the harm of recreational cannabis use.

Carolyn Pullen, chief of programs and policy with the CNA, told the Ontario standing committee on finance during pre-budget consultations in Ottawa Wednesday that nurses should be a vital part of that campaign.

Pullen said nurses are well-positioned to help develop such a campaign and have enormous opportunity to influence personal health choices.

Under the federal government's Cannabis Act, which hasn't officially become law, possession and consumption of recreational pot would become legal in Canada in July.

The federal government has committed to keep cannabis out of the hands of minors and set aside $9.6 million in last year's budget for public education about the risks of cannabis use with a focus on young people.

Pullen said the CNA is hoping all provinces contribute so that they can collectively meet the funding levels needed to have an adequate impact on public education.

Getting nurses up to speed
The CNA is also asking the Ontario government for $600,000 to teach nurses about cannabis.

The organization did a survey in 2017 asking nurses about their knowledge of recreational cannabis.

The survey found many have knowledge gaps about cannabis use during pregnancy, health risks associated with the various methods of cannabis consumption, the impact of cannabis on the developing brain, the risk of addiction and mental health.

"For them to understand and be able to explain those risks … to their clients and their patients is a really important opportunity to seize," Pullen said.

"But in order to do that, we have to develop the materials for the public and professionals and that is going to require significantly more than what we've already seen governments commit."

Overdose prevention
The association also wants Ontario to make nurses part of its overdose prevention strategy by including them in naloxone programs and increasing the number of nurses in supervised injection sites.

Pullen said she wants to see nurses across the country empowered to prescribe and distribute naloxone kits.

Nurses are on the front line, she added, and are often the first point of contact for people in the healthcare system.

"They're perfectly positioned to have this harm reduction tool in their toolkit."

Greedbags are coming out of the woodwork to piss away tax payer dollars on completely unnecessary things.
 

VIANARCHRIS

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Can't they just pull out the stacks of files the have for all the cannabis-related overdoses, disease and death they have collected during the past 70 years of cannabis use in Canada? We have one of the highest percentage of cannabis users in the world - if there was something that nurses were required to know, you would think they would have had the training already. Unless they are going to employ them to fetch munchies for us, we really have no need for cannabis nurses. Another union looking for a piece of the pie. This weedcbo and is going to cost Ontario billions.
 

ANC

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Once again we have the blind studying rainbows on the general population's behalf.
We can not let those who were leading the front of prohibition to now "educate" people on weed.

People have been using weed en masse since forever, If they are equipped to deal with the day to day medical needs of society they have already been dealing with the full spectrum of possible negative effects. They need no new training. What they need is training in respecting people's choices.
 

HotWaterKarl

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The entirety of the summation, can be paraphrased with the following quote:

"For them to understand and be able to explain those risks … to their clients and their patients is a really important opportunity to seize," Pullen said.
MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!! MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!!
 

CalyxCrusher

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Maybe if they had actually learned about cannabis in school we wouldn't be footing the bill for what I can only assume is a continuing education for them to finally learn about it. And if the government's track record has showed us anything its that it will be done half assed and filled with inaccuracies

Wait.......scrap that. There's not currently enough data on it according to our government's past statements.........
Therefore no need for our $48M, this is a make work project. Much like the $274MILLION for police training "required" for legalization, just Blair throwing his buddies a bone. Why do you think the number of upcoming cannabis offences under legalization are two to three times more than what they currently are without legalization?

Money better spent in grants for small businesses entering the legalization market
 
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VIANARCHRIS

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Maybe if they had actually learned about cannabis is school we wouldn't be footing the bill for what I can only assume is a continuing education for them to finally learn about it. And if the government's track record has showed us anything its that it will be done half assed and filled with inaccuracies

Wait.......scrap that. There's not currently enough data on it according to our government's past statements.........
Therefore no need for our $48M, this a make work project. Much like the $274MILLION for police training "required" for legalization, just Blair throwing his buddies a bone. Why do you think the number of upcoming cannabis offences under legalization are two to three times more than what they currently are without legalization?

Money better spent in grants for small businesses entering the legalization market
And those are just the existing government union guys begging for more money. Wynne is going to introduce a whole new bunch that want some of your money, too.
Every year we hear of someone ending up in the emergency room after partaking in 420 celebrations. How were these people medically treated by nurses with no training? Medical has been legal for 17 years. How did the nurses deal with the od'ing cannabis patients that must have been stretching resources - oh, right, it didn't happen.Did any of the patients suffer any negative effects as a consequence of the nurses lack of training? Maybe the nurses union can explain why they need $48 mil for something that they are already dealing with.
I want to do a video interview comparison of a privately owned cannabis retailer vs. a government store. I'm guessing the kid working in the private business for $13/hr will be a lot more knowledgeable than the $38/hr government worker.
 
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