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Current Affairs 2005 - USA (60 items)
| 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 12, 2005 | Grow-Op Penalties Will Rise - Toews OTTAWA - Growing support among MPs of different political stripes for tough mandatory minimum sentences to deter marijuana grow operations usually run by organized gangs could lead to amendments to the Liberals' marijuana bill, Conservative justice critic Vic Toews predicted.
[You would think it would be impossible to pass a mandatory minimum law for something like gardening a plant in this day and age, but we should know better than to ignore these wacko notions that could become law. There is a lot of
political maneuvering going on right now... a minority government that everyone assumed would align with the left to keep voters happy...instead could be aligning with the right to keep the US happy. As trading partners/neighbours, we have been
deliberating pissing each other off for whatever reasons, so the legalization card could be easily played instead. So the race is on.. |
| Mar 11, 2005 | US Gets High, And Blames Canada WASHINGTON - The number of American teenagers and adults ending up in emergency wards or seeking treatment because of marijuana use has soared in recent years and seems linked to the "dramatically" growing influx of high-test Canadian pot, the White House drug czar said Thursday. The elevated THC content -- the active ingredient in pot -- of that Canadian marijuana means it can no longer be considered a soft drug, argued Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
[Not to mention they are given a choice between treatment or jail, and less than 2% of their pot comes from Canada and is too expensive for most consumers, so duh... they tried to float this one in Vancouver and both mayer Campbell and ex-mayor Owen dismissed it as propaganda - lets hope the nation can keep that perspective] |
| Mar 11, 2005 | Canada could be a world leader in smarter drug strategies For the past three days, we have examined how the federal government's
prohibitionist approach to dealing with marijuana has utterly failed to
reduce the supply of, or demand for, the drug. Cannabis use appears to be
associated with cultural and social factors, rather than with the harshness
of the laws or the degree of their enforcement.
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| Feb 25, 2005 | It's Time for Canada to Legalize Cannabis Most arguments against cannabis legalization are moralistic, whereas the arguments in favour are pragmatic and would help to protect minors, users, and society.
The time has come to legalize cannabis.
[Straightforward and to the point. Hooray!] |
| Feb 23, 2005 | Canada, U.S. 'Never More Different' McKenna made a spirited defence of Canadian independence in matters such as marijuana, which many American legislators have sharply criticized.
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| Feb 16, 2005 | CN ON: More Grow-Ops In Toronto Than US Ontario Cabinet ministers who back calls for harsher gun-crime penalties say Toronto is home to as many marijuana grow operations as all of the United States and claim that criminals in the city now rent guns for weekend jobs "like they are videos from a video store."
[They never mention where they get these so-called "facts". Anyone with half a brain would know this is nothing more than fantasy reporting at it's finest.] |
| Feb 13, 2005 | Heading South? Read This Travelers to the U.S. who have a criminal record - regardless of the offence or how long ago it occurred - may be refused entry, she learned. Pardons issued by the Canadian government are not recognized in the U.S., and travelers with criminal records are supposed to contact the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to find out about admissibility. Those ineligible to travel into the country may apply for a waiver.
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| Feb 11, 2005 | Will The Real Dopes In This Marijuana-Use Study Please Stand Up How Much Marijuana Does A Research Volunteer Need To Smoke To Demonstrate That Dope Is Bad For Your Brains? Apparently, Up To 350 Joints A Week.
[350 joints a week - 50 per day...that would eliminate (with a few exceptions) the entire pot smoking population... the study is nothing but more propaganda- which is why most US drug research is discredited by serious scientists] |
| Feb 9, 2005 | CN BC: It's No Fix, But It's The Best We Can Do For Addicts "I would bet any amount of money the U.S. has exerted extreme pressure on Canada to abort this trial," Alex Wodak, a prominent Australian addictions researcher, has said. He should know: U.S. opposition helped to abort a heroin trial in his country. It is to Ottawa's credit that Canada has resisted similar pressure from the Bush administration, whose addictions policies owe more to narrow moralism than to science, compassion or insight.
[Canada promised to crack down harder on cannabis users in return for no interference into the heroin trial?
Another example (like the war in Iraq), where we are more in tune with our European ancestors than our Commonwealth cousins.] |
| Feb 6, 2005 | UN: US Cash Threat to AIDS War The United Nations agency responsible for the global fight against drugs has been forced to abandon its campaign to reduce Aids infection by giving clean needles to heroin addicts after threats by America to end its funding,
[One of the few blessings that could come from the imminent crash of the US economy: cancelling the war on some drug users due to lack of funds] |
| Jan 28, 2005 | CN BC: RCMP Reach Settlement With Off-Duty Policeman Who should wave him over and ask to see his driver's licence and vehicle registration but a tall man with a thick Texan accent? "We have different freedoms than they do down there. You don't want your police meshing to the point where we start taking on the policies of another police jurisdiction."
[Disturbing trend - more US cops coming over the border ] |
| Jan 27, 2005 | Project North Star a beacon for intelligence community Project North Star, run by the U.S. Border Patrol,
gathers law enforcement experts from Canada and the north eastern U.S....the two-day conference also dealt with
the explosion of marijuana grow operations in Toronto, ...He said one attendee from the U.S. left a mountain of
literature on drugs that will be distributed to the
community by Toronto Drug Squad officers.
[The US propaganda machine permeates deeper into Canadian culture, and for good reason.... although we are the closest peer country in geographical proximity, we are further away politically from the US than the sell out Commonwealth nations we share our roots with.] |
| Jan 27, 2005 | PUB LTE: Canada Is Small Potatoes Among Pot Exporters ...the available evidence, including reports from the auditor general of Canada, the RCMP, the U.S. and the United Nations, shows just the opposite -- that Canada is in fact only a minor supplier of cannabis to the U.S. -
[written by Eugene Oscapella - Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy ] |
| Jan 26, 2005 | Canada Top Pot Supplier Canada is now the largest single supplier of pot to the United States, says a top customs official.
[ LIES!!!!... it was only 3 months ago the report below came out...]
*FLASHBACK* October 25, 2004 United States-Canada Border Drug Threat Assessment: While Canadian-produced marijuana accounts for only approximately 2% of overall U.S. marijuana seizures at its borders, the two governments are very concerned about an upward trend in seizures... [Further reading from CFDP] |
| Jan 25, 2005 | US WA: County's Pot Production Dropping Police Say Their Enforcement and Potent B.C. Marijuana Cut into Local Growing Operations."Like any consumer out there, marijuana users want the most bang for their buck and they prefer the stuff coming from Canada." Most of the marijuana police found statewide was from large operations cultivating cannabis with high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC,
[What this article fails to mention is less pot, more meth, is that what we really want? It then continues with standard US propaganda that we will begin seeing more and more of in a Canadian newspaper near you.] |
| Jan 25, 2005 | PUB LTE: Politicians Scared Of US The reason that our politicians are so afraid of the marijuana issue has more to do with attitudes to the south of us than here at home.So, you tell me, who really runs this country?
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| Jan 22, 2005 | CN BC: Pot Inc. Big Businesses Have Sprung Up Around the Fuzzy Legal Boundaries of Marijuana Cultivation in Canada. Are Some Crossing The Line?.... the government is supplying roughly 1,000 people with marijuana...compassion clubs... are illegally supplying nearly 10,000
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| Jan 12, 2005 | CN BC: Seizures Down A Bit As BC Bud Makes A Run For The Border U.S. Authorities Nabbed 5 Tonnes Of Pot In 2004, But Concede More Gets Through
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| Jan 4, 2005 | CN BC: Court To Hear US Man's Refugee Case An American user of medical marijuana who had his claim for refugee status in Canada rejected more than a year ago says the Federal Court has agreed to hear an appeal of his case.
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