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Current Affairs 2007 - Reform (90 items)
| Feb 5, 2007 | Weeding Out The Competition By Regulating The Drug Trade, Canada Could Cut Down On Law Enforcement, Protect Its Citizens And Make A Little Bit Of Extra Cash On The Side As Well
Because of crimes that are related to the drug trade--most notably the killing of the four police officers in Mayerthorpe two years ago--many have been pushing for increased punishment for drug-related crimes recently. While a tactic such as increased jail time would theoretically make criminals think twice before becoming involved in the trade, there's no statistical evidence that supports this claim.
The fact remains that it's just too profitable an industry to be deterred by harsher punishment. Instead we need to end this failed experiment called prohibition and regulate most, if not all, drugs.
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| Jan 30, 2007 | Knock The Law Not The Cops For Making Pot What was James Breau thinking when he decided to run the Mid Island Compassion Club and distribute marijuana without a proper licence? Did he think the police wouldn't find out that he was supplying 85 people with highly priced weed?
Despite the fact that a 2006 Maclean's Magazine poll concluded 93 per cent of Canadians support the legal use of marijuana for medical purposes, it's still illegal to distribute the drug without a licence.
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| Jan 25, 2007 | PUB LTE: Sugar Kills, Marijuana Doesn't Says Writer There are many more dealers of legal drugs that cause harm to our children and our families every day. Maybe a few of these could use a bit of the same vigilante justice as an example to others....
So, if your forming a vigilante posse, keep in mind that the marijuana sold by the local dealer has never killed anyone, sugar in the form of chocolate bars and pop sold at the local gas station kill thousands of Canadians every year.
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| Jan 18, 2007 | PUB LTE: Don't Give Up On Prohibition I'm a perfect example of people in this country and around the world who are caught in the middle of this catastrophic drug war. The strain of cannabis that works best for my health has been held hostage in the street market for the past 13 years. This, I'm sad to say, is not unusual. I receive minimal relief unless the strain available to me legally is coupled with more than 30 pharmaceutical pills a day and up to 2,000 milligrams of morphine. But I won't give up.
Please help me to legalize and regulate all drugs today so that those who are ill and vulnerable are no longer suffering and so our children learn drugs are for adults and those who are sick, dying and in pain. We don't have 50 years to wait.
Alison Myrden
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| Jan 18, 2007 | Reefer Madness' No Reason to Seize More Children BC: Why is the B.C. Association of Social Workers beating the bushes to have more children taken into care?
Association spokesman Paul Jenkinson has been stumping the provincial media urging that the government start seizing children found in homes with marijuana-growing operations. There's "a crisis" out there, in his opinion, and fast action by Victoria is required. ... Jenkinson is peddling reefer madness. His suggestion that we begin seizing more children and putting them in provincial care would only exacerbate what is already a bad situation.
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| Jan 17, 2007 | War On Drugs Needs New Strategy Canada is losing the "war on drugs" and unless the government changes its strategy, the casualties of illegal drug use will continue to climb....This "get tough" approach has not worked in the United States and will not work here. It's a philosophy that panders to public sentiment that seeks to punish those struggling with addiction, rather than reduce the harm done by it. ...Good politics doesn't always translate into good policy. And when the policy can be proven to do more harm than good, it's time for voters to take a long hard look at why governments persist in a course of action detrimental to the public's health.
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| Jan 13, 2007 | Marijuana Advocate Battles For Business Licence Tim Felger says he'll open his bookstore/political office, called Da Kine, in downtown Abbotsford whether he receives a business licence from the city or not.
Since he first applied for a business licence in the summer of 2005, Felger says he has been the subject of 170 building and bylaw inspections, 24 fire inspections and more than 100 police visits.
"I'm not only being singled out, but [City of Abbotsford officials] are violating my freedom of expression," said Felger, a long-time marijuana advocate.
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| Jan 12, 2007 | Government Created A System Benefitting The Worst One Percent The disturbing trend by RCMP to arrest and detain people for marijuana possession, trafficking and usage is irresponsible in this day and age.
After numerous commissions, hundreds of thousands of hours of governmental time consumed studying marijuana, the consensus in Canada remains that marijuana should not be illegal and the denial of this most natural and basic medicine is extreme to the point of undue hardship.
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| Jan 11, 2007 | When Cops Inhale Did the Toronto Police narcs who swooped down on the Church of the Universe congregation in the Beaches, arresting 22 and laying 205 pot charges, actually inhale?
That's a loaded question for those worried about lack of accountability when it comes to officers breaking the law during investigations.
And if some of the arrestees are right, coppers did toke on-scene in the course of their reconnoitering.
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| Jan 9, 2007 | Gravely Ill The Law Is An Ass.
Or at least the ones that impose criminal sanctions for using or providing marijuana to ease symptoms of illness and disease are. That's what 93 per cent of Canadians seem to suggest when they say, as they did in a 2006 Maclean's Magazine poll, that they support the legal use of marijuana for medical purposes.
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