Dr. Daniel Bear

Dr. Daniel Bear

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Toronto, Ontario

Drug Policy Resercher, Criminal Justice Professor and Speaker

Dr. Daniel Bear is a drug policy expert with nearly 20 years of experience studying how we use drugs, why we use drugs, and how we regulate drugs. He is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Social and Community Services at Humber College, where he leads nationally-funded research examining how to better engage young people with public health information about drugs.

DR. DANIEL BEAR BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Daniel Bear is a drug policy expert with nearly 20 years of experience studying how we use drugs, why we use drugs, and how we regulate drugs. His research spans many areas of drugs policy and Dr. Bear has done everything from working alongside terminally ill patients as they grew an acre of medical cannabis, to spending a year alongside police in London as they raided cannabis grow ops.

Throughout his research Dr. Bear has looked not just at drugs themselves but how responses to drug issues impact both the targeted groups and the organizations and agents tasked with implementing the responses. In his published work for academic journals, appearances on radio, and television, and in op/ed pieces, Dr. Daniel Bear manages to make a very complex topic accessible to all.

Dr. Daniel Bear has a Ph.D. and MSc in Social Policy from The London School of Economics and Political Science, where he studied what drove street-level policing of drugs and the resulting impact on communities of colour. Dr. Bear earned his BA in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

He has held positions with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General and sat on advisory committees of the British Society of Criminology and the Drug Policy Alliance. He has consulted on criminal justice reform issues for the UK’s Ministry of Justice, the BBC, and several non-profit organizations.

Dr. Daniel Bear is currently a Professor in the Faculty of Social and Community Services at Humber College in Toronto where he leads nationally-funded research examining how to better engage young people with public health information about drugs.

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March 5, 2020: Marijuana legalization through a public health lens

Dr. Daniel Bear Topic Presentations

everything you ever wanted to know about why we take drugs

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  • Humans have been trying to alter their consciousness by utilizing chemical compounds for at least 10,000 years and we’re not done experimenting yet! From alcohol to salvia, and all the drugs in between, we’ll explore the sociological history of drugs and drug use. Join Dr. Daniel Bear on this sometimes whimsical, sometimes serious look at the drugs we love, the drugs we despise, and the ways we’ve figured out how to get them into our bodies and our societies.

    Dr. Daniel Bear will discuss various drugs that have shaped human history and our social interactions, the relation of current drug consumption practices to historical issues and policies, the sociological and neurological impetus to consume various drugs, and current drug issues in a sociological context.

    Target Audience: Parents, teachers, businesses, community groups. Delivery Format: 30, 60, or 90-minute talk.

cannabis - a primer

talking to kids about drugs - just say no to just say no

understanding and addressing implicit bias

hitting targets but missing the point

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Will legalizing marijuana actually dismantle its black market?

The Globe and Mail

Daniel Bear is a professor of criminal justice at the School of Social and Community Services, Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Liberal politicians have often tried to take the right flank on issues of criminal justice in order to defend themselves against the notion that they are "soft on crime." U.S. President Bill Clinton's embrace of the drug war and mandatory minimum sentencing is an example of this, but for many in the drug policy community there was a quiet tension leading up to today's release of the report from the Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation. Would the report ordered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government propose to legalize...
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CANNABIS POLICY | Professor Daniel Bear
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