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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Cannabis Legalization in Canada: Reflections on Public Health and the Governance of Legal Psychoactive Substances
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Public Health, August 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00220 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jean-François Crépault |
| Abstract |
The Canadian government is "taking a public health approach to legalizing, strictly regulating and restricting access to cannabis." There is, however, no universally accepted definition of a public health approach to cannabis. This paper presents what such an approach is, and is not, and discusses its applicability to legal psychoactive substances more generally. It critically reflects on the role of the public health sector in the governance of addictive substances and activities, noting its function of "responsibilizing" individuals and coaxing them to self-regulate-and the contradiction involved when other state actors involved in governance are actively inciting consumption of those substances and activities. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 22 | 55% |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 2 | 5% |
| United States | 2 | 5% |
| Panama | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Saint Barthélemy | 1 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 10 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 27 | 68% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 9 | 23% |
| Scientists | 3 | 8% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 91 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 91 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 20 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 15% |
| Researcher | 6 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 5% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 15% |
| Unknown | 27 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 13% |
| Psychology | 10 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 9% |
| Neuroscience | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 15 | 16% |
| Unknown | 34 | 37% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 August 2022.
All research outputs
#1,432,793
of 26,147,626 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Public Health
#735
of 14,594 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,767
of 344,165 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Public Health
#7
of 83 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 14,594 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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