THE MEDIA
DEBATE 2004
THE ISSUE: CANNABIS IN CANADA
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CURRENT CLIMATE: YOUTH, HEMP, USA
YOUTH:
- Why Do
Teens Turn To Sex, Booze And
Drugs?
- Nagging
Leads Teens To Drugs, Says
Study
- Canadian
Kids Fat, Lazy Weed Smokers:
Report
- Defiant
Teens Join Pot Rally
- Teenage
Drug Smugglers Will Be
'Hammered' "When we get juveniles . . . we're going to hammer them
to send a message that it's
not a game," Whatcom County juvenile prosecutor Tom Verge said
- Weed-Selling
Teen Gets Jail Term
An 18-year-old caught selling drugs at a school dance was ordered to
serve 90 days in jail
Thursday.
- Students
Heading For Ski Hill
Confined To Bus For Nine Hours During Drug Search
- Are Our
Teens Afraid of Taking a
Chance?
- Drug
Dogs Would Cost Schools If
Surrey school trustees want drug dogs to sniff school lockers, they'll
have to hire a private
security firm at a cost of roughly $50,000 a year because the RCMP
can't spare the officers or
canines.
- Teachers
Now Fine With DARE
Program
- Dare
Dance Cancelled The
fundraising dance for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program,
scheduled for March 13 at the
Royal Canadian Legion in Langford, was canceled due to lack of ticket
sales.
- Teens
Die after Inhaling
Butane
- Teens Getting
High On Flower Seeds
- OPP
Issue Jimson Weed
Warning
- Teens
Spurn Tobacco, Embrace Pot
More Adolescents Smoke Pot In Canada Than Anywhere Else In The World
- School
Board Lobbys To Keep Pot
Illegal
- 'Just
Say No' Just Doesn't
Work
- Dogs To
Sniff School Lockers
- Drug
Dogs In Schools The
government has entered into a $100,000 agreement with the Mounties to
use the dogs to search jails
across the province on a random basis.
- Drug
Cops Sweep Schools
- Police
Find Drugs At All High
Schools
- Random
School Locker Searches
Invasive And Unreasonable Now, a Fraser Valley school district
plans to let privately-trained
sniffing dogs loose in the corridors of Abbotsford schools in a bid to
flush out drugs kids may
have stashed in personal belongings stored in their lockers. Annually,
the canine initiative could
cost upwards of $50,000.
- Unjustified
Raids Abuse Students'
Rights
HEMP
UNITED STATES:
- Ashcroft
Visits Ottawa This Week To
Talk Trafficking In Guns, Drugs On his last trip to Canada in July,
2002, Mr. Ashcroft told a
gathering in Banff, Alta., he would like to see Canada loosen
restrictions to allow armed U.S. law
enforcement officers to pursue suspects in Canada. Canadian officials
rebuffed the proposal.
- FBI
Official Wants Canada To Adopt
Strict Wiretapping it would be "desirable" for Canada to give
police and spy agencies authority
to tap citizen's private e-mail and Internet-driven phone calls, and
compel cellphone and Internet
service providers to make equipment easier to tap.
- US
Uses Anti-terror Law Against BC
Pot Suspects
- US
Uses Drug Law Against BC Lumber
Importers
- Relaxed
Pot Laws Alarm U.S.
Report From President Bush Warns Congress of Link to Organized Crime
- President
Tells Harper, But Not
Reporters, Looser Pot Laws Will Affect Border Crossings
- US
Expands Border Patrol To Counter
BC 'Threats' Aircraft And Boats To Scan Area Within 400-Km Radius
Of Bellingham "Intelligence
indicates there is a threat up there [in Canada] that needs to be
responded to, so we're providing
the air and marine capability to respond to that, in support of both
U.S. and Canadian
authorities,"
- Canuck
Marijuana Law May Clog
Border
- Pot
Bill Could Mean Trade Slowdown -
Congressman An influential U.S. Congressman Mark Souder is
predicting a trade slowdown if
Canada decriminalizes marijuana possession.
- Pot
Law Will Snarl U.S. Border, Says
Envoy Paul Cellucci said the bill, if
implemented, would leave the impression
pot is easier to obtain in Canada, which would put U.S. Customs
officers on high alert for
smugglers. [So he's been saying for over a
year: May 02 2003: US Ambassador
Warns Of Longer Border
Lineups]
- US
Bounty Hunters 'Just Can't Do
That' bounty hunters face charges of forcible confinement and
kidnapping and are being
investigated by U.S officials for making false statements to a federal
border agent.Though it's
nearly non-existent in Canada, bounty hunting is a lucrative industry
in the U.S. Thousands of
bounty hunters track down fugitives who skip out on court hearings.
- OPP
Set To Charge Bounty Hunters
Attorney General Asked To Start Extradition Process
- Canada
'Sells US High-Grade
Pot' [Actually anyone in the US with a
light and seeds can grow high
grade pot at home - and they do]
- Mexico
Top Pot Supplier to U.S. -
RCMP The RCMP's annual assessment of the drug situation in Canada,
citing the latest seizure
statistics, points out that most U.S. marijuana is homegrown or
smuggled in from Mexico
- Pot
Cafe A High-Volume Dealer, Say
Police [Liquor stores, bars, pharmacies and
hospitals are all high volume
drug dealers too - just depends on how you want to spin it]
- Fox
Warns Americans About
'Vansterdam'
- flow of potent, pricey, brand-name marijuana
- A Trip
To 'Vansterdam' Source:
Oregonian, The (Portland, OR)
- U.S.
Pot Activist Waits on
Appeal Steve wanted Canada to grant him refugee status
because he claims he would be
persecuted for his medical pot use in the United States.
- Uptight
Yanks Should Chill Out About
Pot
- Pot
Not A Pressing Problem
Canada and the United States have many more important problems that
they need to work out. If the
differences over marijuana can be put in perspective, there need be no
increase in problems at the
border or diplomatic difficulties in the capitals.
- The
Conventional Wisdom on
'Marihuana' Is Wrong Claims by politicians and police that we need
tougher drug-law enforcement
to stop Canadian marijuana flooding the United States have become
pretty much conventional wisdom.
It's time that changed.
- Bubbles,
Julian, Ricky
- Cellucci
Is Just Blowing
Smoke
- Pot
Warning Ignored: PM Rejects
American's Threat Firstly, the legislation is before the House of
Commons, then the
parliamentary committee will have its discussions on all the various
points, and we'll wait to see
the legislation that comes from that.
- Pot
Law No Threat To US In a
meeting with the National Post's editorial board this week, the U.S.
ambassador ... expressed
serious misgivings about Ottawa's plan to make the possession of small
amounts of marijuana a
non-criminal offence, punishable by a fine rather than jail time. That
would put U.S. customs
officers on high alert for smugglers, further snarling lineups at the
border and interfering with
trade. "Why," he asked plaintively, "when we're trying to take pressure
off the border, would
Canada pass a law putting pressure on the border?"
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