Program

(Note: PDFs of talks linked to titles)

Thursday 15 November 2018  (Panelists, Invitees and General Public)

• 8:15-9:00 Registration, Coffee, Tea and Pastries
• 9:00-9:15 Introduction/Charge for the meeting
  • Karl G. Hill (University of Colorado Boulder)
  • Bonnie Leadbeater (University of Victoria)

• 9:15-10:00 The impact of cannabis use patterns on adolescent and youth outcomes

  • Angela Bryan (with Kent Hutchison and Cinnamon Bidwell, University of Colorado Boulder)
    Relationships of cannabis use to neurocognitive structure and function and risk behavior among adolescents

  • Kara Thompson and Bonnie Leadbeater (University of Victoria)
    Patterns and Consequences of Cannabis Use in the Transition from Adolescence to young adulthood: Observations across a decade

  • Marina Epstein (University of Washington)
    Consequences of Cannabis Use Across the Lifecourse and Across Generations

• 10:00-10:30 Discussion

• 10:30-10:45 Break

• 10:45-12:00 Health policy and state health department experiences

  • Beau Kilmer (RAND Drug Policy Research Center, San Francisco)
    Understanding the policy landscape and emerging evidence

  • Jessica Neuwirth (Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment)
    Youth Prevention in Colorado: Policy, Practice, & Social Marketing

  • Sarah Mariani (Washington State Health Care Authority)
    Cannabis Legalization in Washington State – Impact and Prevention

  • Richard Stanwick (Island Health, Victoria BC)  
    Anticipating changing health demands for Canadian youth using cannabis: A Public Health Perspective in Canada

  • Melissa Ramphal (Health Canada) and Dr. Pamela Ponic (Public Health Agency of Canada)
    Cannabis Public Education and Awareness: Reaching Canadian Youth and Young Adults

• 12:00-12:30 Discussion

• 12:30-1:30 LUNCH

• 1:30-2:30 Evidence-based Cannabis Abuse Prevention and Treatment Interventions

  • Nathaniel Riggs (Colorado State University)
    The Colorado State University Cannabis Research Group: Early projects and future directions

  • Laura Griner Hill (Washington State University)
    Letting Go and Staying Connected, a theoretically guided, developmentally targeted, and empirically supported intervention for parents of students transitioning to college.

  • Hanie Edalati & Patricia Conrod (Université de Montréal)
    Personalizing drug prevention by targeting personality risk factors for cannabis misuse

  • Michael Mason (The University of Tennessee Knoxville)
    Personalized Text-delivered Cannabis Use Disorder Treatment with Young Adults: Outcomes and Acceptability of Peer Network Counseling

• 2:30-3:00 Discussion

• 3:00-3:15 Break

• 3:15-4:00  Community-based youth development and harm reduction approaches

  • Kevin Haggerty (University of Washington)
    Six Lessons Learned From Marijuana Legalization in Washington State….one researcher's perspective

  • Beverly Kingston (University of Colorado Boulder)
    Implementation of Communities that Care in Colorado

  • Julie Bull (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto)
    The grass isn’t always greener on the other side: Indigenous considerations and complexities in cannabis legalization in Canada.

• 4:00-4:30  Discussion

• 4:30-5:00 Closure of the Day and Summary of Lessons Learned

• 7:00 PM Group dinner and networking for panelists and invited participants

   

Friday 16 November 2018 (Panelists and Invited Participants Only)

• 8:15-9:00 Registration, Coffee, Tea and Pastries

• 9:00-9:45 Establishing national and cross-national research collaborations & funding opportunities

  • Heather Kimmel (National Institute on Drug Abuse)

  • Michael Hilton (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)

  • Samuel Weiss (Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction)
    (Dr. Weiss was unable to attend, so we held a panel discussion among Canadian Researchers and Agency staff.)

• 9:45-10:15 Discussion

• 10:15-10:30 Break

• 10:30-12:00 Networking opportunity and small group discussions of potential research collaborations nationally and cross-nationally.

• 12:00-12:30 Closure Day 2 and Symposium

• 12:30-1:30 Lunch