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Current Affairs 2005 - Government (116 items)
| Feb 24, 2005 | Tax Relief Goes To Pot OTTAWA - Canadians will get tax relief to buy marijuana, gold and jewellery and for world travel under yesterday's proposed federal budget.
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| 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 22, 2005 | Motion Calls For Taxation Of Legal Marijuana OTTAWA -- Delegates to the Liberal party convention next month will debate a motion to legalize and tax marijuana sales, saying it would bring in billions in new tax revenue.
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| Feb 17, 2005 | CN BC: Pot Party Looks For Candidates If the thought of legalizing marijuana is high on your list of priorities, consider becoming a Marijuana Party candidate in the May 17 B.C. election.
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| Feb 9, 2005 | Health Canada suspends the market authorization of ADDERALL XR® Health Canada has suspended the market authorization of the product due to safety information concerning the association of sudden deaths, heart-related deaths, and strokes in children and adults taking usual recommended doses of ADDERALL and ADDERALL XR.
[How many deaths from cannabis after thousands of years of use? NONE. But it is banned. Where's the logic, science or any other justification?
UPDATE: August 24, 2005:
Health Canada allows Adderall XR® back on the Canadian market Who can protect us against Health Canada?
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| 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 9, 2005 | CN NK: Defence in N.B. pot trial seizes on Ottawa's slow response to medical need New Brunswick - Ottawa's slow and cautious response to requests for medicinal marijuana has become an issue for the defence in a New Brunswick drug trafficking trial.
[This significant case deals directly with the inadequacies of the government program.] |
| 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] |
| Feb 4, 2005 | Alcohol as harmful as smoking, study warns LONDON - Alcohol causes almost as many deaths and disabilities worldwide as smoking or high-blood pressure, a study warns....despite evidence that alcohol causes as much harm as tobacco and high blood-pressure, public-policy decisions are governed all too often by political instead of health concerns...
[If it weren't so, then cannabis would be legal] |
| Feb 2, 2005 | CN BC: Wheels Fall Off Media Strategy Deals were made with Saturday Night, the Economist, and the Globe and Mail... The Vancouver Sun was also offered a deal which allowed it to publish... if its story was substantially different....the Sun said it couldn't withhold the story from ... the National Post, the Globe's direct competitor.
[Business and the business of politics are a drug for some, that can be more harmful to society than crystal meth ] |
| Jan 26, 2005 | I'll Take Police Over Landlords, Thanks I don't think a bylaw that encourages landlords to be any more paranoid or nosy is a good idea. Of equal concern for tenants is that landlords are not very good at recognizing innocent tenants. Worse, many landlords are not familiar with the Residential Tenancy Act, and a concept called the right to "quiet and peaceful enjoyment of property."
[Of course if you are wealthy enough to afford your own home, you live in a less intrusive world than your less fortunate counterparts. Is it class war when those who make these laws have a choice to live under them, while for others there is no choice?] |
| Jan 25, 2005 | CN BC: BC Crime-fighting Budget Gets Boost Of $122-Million ... the explosive growth of marijuana-growing operations in British Columbia, which has earned the province the unenviable title of "Colombia North," was a big incentive for the government.
A study released in 2002 showed the number of marijuana grow-ops in British Columbia had increased 222 per cent between 1997 and 2000 and had jumped by more than 1,000 per cent in some areas.
[The incentives are so obvious - keep cannabis illegal to keep the cash flowing to police jobs rather than social programs] |
| 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 24, 2005 | Justice Ministers Want Tougher Laws Topping the list of federal reforms urgently sought by the provinces is the abolition -- or at least the severe restriction -- of the availability of conditional sentencing. Conditional sentences such as house arrest, curfews, electronic monitoring and other alternatives to incarceration can be imposed by judges for offenders deemed not dangerous who would otherwise be jailed for less than two years.
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| Jan 19, 2005 | Product Information Sheet on Dried Marihuana Office of Cannabis Medical Access: The manufacturing process involves milling of the plant material in order to
produce a homogeneous marihuana product...To ensure dried marihuana microbiological safety, the product has been
irradiated by gamma irradiation to reduce to undetectable levels, using
well-established methodologies, potentially harmful bacteria and microbial
load which may cause spoilage. Irradiation ensures that people using the
marihuana and who may have compromised immune systems, are not exposed to
toxic spores which occur naturally in plants.
Product Information Sheet on spp.) [PDF]
Product Information Sheet on Marihuana (Cannabis spp.) Seeds [PDF]
[There is concern about this product and process. See Canadians For Safe Access Flin Flon section] |
| Jan 19, 2005 | CN BC: Want Stiffer Sentences For Grow-Ops? Lobby MPs, Not Judges only one in seven people in British Columbia -- and only one in 13 in Vancouver -- convicted of growing marijuana between 2002 and 2004 received a jail sentence. Not surprisingly, law enforcement personnel, who have stepped up raids on grow-ops in recent years, are disappointed with the sentencing records. B.C. Solicitor-General Rich Coleman has also expressed disappointment with the courts..
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