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Current Affairs 2007 - Government (150 items)
| Oct 3, 2007 | Club Head Wants Quebec To Run Medical Marijuana Access The founder of the Montreal Compassion Club wants Quebec to take over the administration of the federal Medical Marijuana Access program in the province.
Marc-Boris St-Maurice said yesterday the program is "an embarrassing oxymoron."
He complained about major delays processing applications, licence renewals and changes of address.
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| Oct 1, 2007 | Patients, Activists To Address Ramifications Of New National Anti-Drug MEDIA ADVISORY
Location: Charles Lynch Press Theatre, Room 130-S, Parliament Hill,
Ottawa
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 1 p.m.
For further Information:
Christine Lowe - 613-248-9190
Tara Lyons - 613-263-1335
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| Oct 1, 2007 | Tory Pot Smokers Should Be The First To Turn Themselves Into Police! Stephen Harper is about to declare another 'War on drugs.'
Statistics show that roughly 16.8% of Canadians use marijuana / cannabis. You therefore have to assume that there MUST be a couple of Conservative Members of Parliament who fit into the 16.8% number. ...
It is time for EVERY card carrying member of the Conservative Party of Canada who uses cannabis to lead by example and turn themselves into the police immediately whether or not they support Harper's new initiative.
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| Oct 1, 2007 | PR: New National Anti-Drug Strategy plays politics with people's lives TORONTO, Oct. 1 /CNW/ - The new National Anti-Drug Strategy to be officially
unveiled this week by federal Health Minister Tony Clement is a huge step
backward for Canada's response to HIV/AIDS, said the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal
Network today...."It seems clear that the new drug strategy is based on ideology instead of
evidence, and from every angle - human rights, public health, or use of
taxpayers' dollars - that's irresponsible and unacceptable."
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| Sep 30, 2007 | Tories to Drug Users: The Party's Over Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: "the party's over" for illicit drug users.
"In the next few days, we're going to be back in the business of an anti-drug strategy," Clement told The Canadian Press.
"In that sense, the party's over." Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Halifax all reported increases of between 20% and 50% in 2006 of arrests for possession of cannabis, compared with the previous year.
As a result thousands of people were charged with a criminal offence that, under the previous Liberal government, was on the verge of being classified as a misdemeanour.
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| Sep 30, 2007 | 'Party's Over' For Druggies: Health Minister OTTAWA -- Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: "The party's over" for illicit drug users. "In the next few days, we're going to be back in the business of an anti-drug strategy," Clement said. "In that sense, the party's over."
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| Sep 27, 2007 | ON: Time For City To Grow Op After three hours punching each other silly over issues like amending the fireworks bylaw, the licensing and standards committee is finally ready to hear my deputation September 11.
I'm here on behalf of the Canadian Cannabis Society to speak to the final agenda item: how the city plans to police pot and divvy up the proceeds of grow op busts.
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| Sep 17, 2007 | Regulating Hydroponics Start Of Slippery Slope But lost amid all the good news is another initiative the City of Surrey is proposing - a registration system for hydroponic equipment.
...What happens to the information collected? Do the police and fire department make a quick visit to make sure only tomatoes are being grown? Do you have to undergo a criminal record check to grow vegetables?
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| Sep 17, 2007 | AG Increases Use of Forfeiture Powers to Seize Assets The Ministry of the Attorney General has increased its use of sweeping provincial civil forfeiture powers in the past year to seize assets, including people's homes, even if criminal proceedings have been stayed or withdrawn because of Charter violations. ...A report issued recently by the attorney general's office stated that $3.6 million in property has been seized in the past four years in 170 proceedings. Nearly $1 million has been distributed to crime victims and more than $900,000 transferred to municipal police forces.
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| Sep 14, 2007 | NS: Marijuana Court Case Turns Into Constitutional Concern However, Ricky Logan Simpson, 57, told the jury hearing his Nova Scotia Supreme Court trial on three drug charges that he should not be considered a criminal because the laws forbidding the possession, growing and distribution of marijuana are unconstitutional.
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| Sep 13, 2007 | Drug Ads Could Trigger Tokers Do anti-pot ads just make folks want to spark up? Health Minister Tony Clement better find out before he launches that no-nonsense anti-drug campaign he's been threatening...More than that, students in their study reported that the pot spots actually made them more likely to spliff up....The feds can't say they weren't warned.
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| Sep 12, 2007 | Marijuana-smoking Troops Banned From Afghanistan OTTAWA - Some 250 soldiers who tested positive for drugs were not allowed to serve in Afghanistan, the Canadian Forces confirmed yesterday.
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| Sep 11, 2007 | New Dosage Limits for Medical Marijuana But Where's The Science?
New evidence-based guidelines are urgently needed to help doctors negotiate Canada's hazy medical marijuana landscape, particularly in light of Health Canada's efforts to impose new dose limits, say the nation's leading cannabis researcher and doctors who have been queried about their marijuana authorizations.
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| Sep 7, 2007 | Time To Address Medical Marijuana, Onley Says TORONTO -- He didn't say it outright, but one day after being sworn in as Ontario's 28th Lieutenant-Governor, David Onley all but endorsed medicinal marijuana use by the chronically ill.
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| Sep 3, 2007 | The Unfairness Of The Forfeiture Law ...But in a justice system that revolves around presumed innocence, civil forfeiture changes the rules. It enables the Crown to take suspected criminals to a civil court when the evidence is not strong enough to hold up in a criminal one. There, the Crown doesn't need to prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt; it needs only to establish its case on a balance of probabilities. Even before it achieves that minimal standard, the province is able to freeze property until the court date, potentially bankrupting individuals before demonstrating that the assets it has seized were ill-gotten.
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| Aug 29, 2007 | Bowering In Favour Of Legalizing Pot The head of public health for the North wants to see radical reform in how Canada deals with psychoactive drugs.
Dr. David Bowering told The Interior News last week that legalization of marijuana needs to be the subject of much more open and frank public discussion.
Bowering is a member of the Health Officers Council of British Columbia ( HOC ) that, in October 2005, released a position paper calling for a public health approach to drug control.
At the heart of the matter, Bowering said, is harm reduction.
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| Aug 27, 2007 | Campaign Should Pass On Pot If the federal government is serious about starting a massive anti-drug campaign aimed at youth, it had best ensure the message makes sense. At this point, it doesn't. ...He made special mention of marijuana, reminding the doctors in attendance that pot today is more potent from any they might have smoked in their youth.
That's where Clement's message is troubling. Lumping in pot use with harder drugs is a tenuous link at best, and to build a campaign around it risks sinking the whole message.
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| Aug 25, 2007 | Is It Or Isn't It? The Pot Pendulum Swings Again Just As Canadians Are Embracing Pot As Never Before, the Government Plans a New War on Drugs. the Move Is Fitting, Given This Country's Ambivalent Relationship With Weed Over the Decades ...For a lot of Canadians, the debate is over: They like pot, they smoke it.
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| Aug 21, 2007 | Clement To Doctors: Talk Straight On Drug Dangers Federal Health Minister Tony Clement delivered a tough, anti-drug message to doctors on Monday, saying young people need straight talk about the dangers of illicit drugs, including marijuana.
"The messages young people have received during the past several years have been confusing and conflicting to say the least," Clement told the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association ( CMA ) in Vancouver.
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| Aug 10, 2007 | BC: Pot Not a Police Priority, Deputy Chief Testifies at Trial Deputy Chief Bill Naughton said the society's Cormorant Street office of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society has not generated any complaints, adding marijuana ranks behind drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin in terms of Victoria police priorities. ....Also testifying yesterday in Victoria was Senator Pierre Claude Nolin, who chaired the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, which called in 2002 for the legalization of marijuana in Canada.
Nolin told the court the regulations, as they currently exist, are an obstacle to Canadians who want access to medical marijuana.
He said the rules ask doctors to be "gatekeepers" for access to legal marijuana. It's a role doctors don't want, and so Canadians are being denied access to a medical product.
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