Some University of Alberta graduate students want the province to roll any tax revenue raised from the legal sale of marijuana into mental-health and addictions programs.
Student Advocates for Public Health say such programs are badly underfunded at a time when substance abuse is costing the province’s health-care system about $1 billion a year.
“We are calling on Alberta’s NDP government to reinvest 100 per cent of cannabis sales tax revenue into Alberta’s addiction and mental-health strategy,” group spokeswoman Stephanie Wilkes said Thursday.
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