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Current Affairs 2005 - Reform (115 items)
| Apr 24, 2005 | For Pot Smokers, It's Always 4:20 A private security staffer drove his car across the grounds, in an apparent attempt at intimidation.
It didn't work.
"What's all the fuss," asked one MLA of the crowd.
4:20.
"Well, better than nine-eleven," he said.
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| Apr 22, 2005 | Scuffle At Pro-marijuana Rally Results In Charges An RCMP officer escaped injury during a scuffle with a man arrested at a pro-marijuana rally outside Red Deer's city hall, say police.
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| Apr 22, 2005 | Compassion Club Takes High Road Mark Russell doesn't think sick people should have to hang out in bars or back alleys in order to get their medication.
He doesn't think they should have to deal with the criminal element in order to do so, either.
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| Apr 21, 2005 | Victoria's Top Toker Can't Join Smoke-In Pot aroma wafts over City Hall in sixth annual joint jubilee
Victoria's best-known pot advocate was one of the few who didn't light up Thursday afternoon outside City Hall.
It's not that Ted Smith didn't want to join revelers in the annual marijuana 4/20 celebrations -- it's just that a few police officers were keeping an eye on Centennial Square, and Smith is already facing drug charges.
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| Apr 21, 2005 | Pot Users Light Up Outside Legislature MORE than 500 pot smokers spent yesterday afternoon smoking joints and lounging on the Legislative Building grounds as part of an annual call for the legalization of marijuana.
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| Apr 20, 2005 | Legalizing Pot Is His Number-one Priority Neil Magnuson wants Surrey residents to have access to safe medication, namely marijuana, which is reportedly useful for some maladies including glaucoma and treatment for nausea related to chemotherapy.
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| Apr 19, 2005 | Smokin' Up The Joint Tomorrow is World Marijuana Day. You won't find it on the calendar. Actually, you won't find it anywhere but on the Internet.
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| Apr 19, 2005 | Just-released Marijuana Grower Wants To Run For Election Felger intends to run for the Marijuana party of B.C. in the May 17 provincial election against de Jong, the Liberal MLA who has represented Abbotsford-Mount Lehman since 1994.
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| Apr 18, 2005 | 'Toking Time' At Falls NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. -- The Horseshoe Falls was the backdrop for activists rallying to legalize marijuana. "Weed is a good thing. It's stereotyped not in a good way," said Mary Wilson, a Niagara Falls woman among approximately 250 people who lit up in Queen Victoria Park on Saturday at 4:20 p.m., the time of day pot-smokers consider the universal toking time.
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| Apr 7, 2005 | And Marijuana For All By Alan Young. I am becoming embarrassed by the endless pot debate in Canada. Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan recently stated that marijuana smokers are stupid ( Was this her way of saying she smokes the herb? ), but the true imbecility lies in the irresolute and confused response of our governemt to a no-brainer issue of public policy.
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| Apr 2, 2005 | It's Time For Intelligent Responses To Marijuana It is difficult to imagine a less intelligent strategy for responding to drugs than the laws that are currently in place. They reward organized crime, endanger the lives of police and citizens, corrupt legitimate businesses by encouraging money laundering, provide the major source of corruption among our police, and create a heavy burden on our justice system.
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| Mar 26, 2005 | PUB LTE: Debunking Myths If we are to deal effectively with the problems of drug abuse and addiction, we need education, regulation, treatment and enforcement -- certainly not propaganda, misinformation, prohibition and incarceration.
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| Mar 25, 2005 | PUB LTE: Money Wasted On Drug 'Prohibition' In your editorial, "It's about the money" ( Progress, March 18 ) you say that the legalization of marijuana is naive. I can't help but think that you have it backwards. It is time the prohibitionists were called to account for the abysmal mess drug use suppression has become.
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| Mar 25, 2005 | Returning Pot Activist To US A Death Sentence he wife of medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby told Federal Court Justice Sandra Simpson that returning her husband to the U.S. to serve a prison term would be a death sentence.
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| Mar 23, 2005 | Stop Trying To Change The Laws Of Economics It's as it was with alcohol prohibition in the United States, which resulted not in an end to drinking, but the creation of Al Capone.
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| Mar 23, 2005 | PUB LTE: The Potent-pot Myth Both weak and strong marijuana will yield the desired result. Since potent marijuana requires significantly less smoke inhalation, it's actually less harmful.
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| Mar 21, 2005 | American Woman Awaits Extradition Decision Nightmares about abuse in prison and separation from her son have plagued Renee Boje for more than four years as she awaits a decision on her extradition to the United States.
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| Mar 20, 2005 | How Science Is Skewed to Fuel Fears of Marijuana Aside from unverifiable conjecture, supporters of the status quo on marijuana rely on a few claims that can be checked against the facts.
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| Mar 19, 2005 | Is Pot Far More Potent Than in the Past? (Dan Gardner)
"When smoking stronger pot, you smoke less and you have less exposure to tars and respiratory irritants,... so in some ways it's worth smoking the best pot you can afford." Mitch Earleywine, professor of psychology, University of Southern California
[Although cannabis in the past may not have been as strong as that grown today, high THC hash was always available that could match or was stronger than today's cannabis, so the it is a moot point] |
| Mar 15, 2005 | Let's Admit It: Pot Prohibition's Failed Pot production in the last seven years has more than tripled -- from an estimated 19,727 kilograms in 1997 to 79,817 kilos in 2003.
Last year, more than 25,000 growing operations came to police attention but they investigated fewer than 17,000 and only about half of those were prosecuted.
Looking at cannabis prohibition as a numbers game, it is easy to see prohibition can not work. But this is more of a political game - so the numbers can be ignored. |
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