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Current Affairs 2008 - Statistics (53 items)
| May 23, 2008 | Canada's Laws Going To Pot They fought the law and the ... law lost.
In fact, Canada's petty, nanny-state prohibition on simple marijuana possession has been repeatedly revealed as either non-existent or as murky as well --used bong water.
Except, you'd never know it as the charges continue to be laid and judicial resources go up in smoke.
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| May 16, 2008 | Marijuana Popular Among Educated, Middle-Class: Study A variety of educated, middle-class Canadians are "making a conscious but careful choice to use marijuana" to relax or focus on leisure activities, say researchers behind a new study spotlighting pot smoking behind the nation's picket fences. .."They're a little reluctant to come forward and talk about it, using the phrase that they're still 'in the closet.'"
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| May 13, 2008 | Grow-Op Hunt Sparks Class-Action Suit A Coquitlam homeowner has filed a class-action lawsuit after his power was cut off and his tenant forced to move out following a search for a marijuana grow-op. ...Monaco's case is the fifth lawsuit against Coquitlam since last year. One is in small-claims court, two are petitions, and one is a writ.
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| May 7, 2008 | City Going Too Far Witch hunt. Police state. Overzealous. Heavy handed. All of these terms -- and probably a lot more we couldn't print -- are being used to describe the City of Coquitlam's approach to rooting out marijuana grow operations. ...And before the legalize-marijuana lobby starts writing letters about how the problem could be avoided if pot were legal, we agree.
Pot, however, is not legal. And illegal grow-ops pose a huge fire hazard. That means the inspection approach to shutting down grow-ops is a good thing -- when one key ingredient is factored in: common sense.
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| May 4, 2008 | AB: Marchers Push Marijuana's Medical Merits Calgary - Close to 500 protesters took to the streets Saturday in favour of marijuana's medicinal use and making it more accessible to those suffering debilitating pain.
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| May 4, 2008 | ON: Pot Fans Rally In Big Smoke Thousands Pushing For Legal Weed Peacefully Mark Freedom Festival, 10th Global Marijuana March
Queen's Park may have been soggy from yesterday's rain, but sparks were flying as thousands spent the day smoking pot just north of the Legislature.
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| Apr 26, 2008 | Legislation Now Exists To Win War On Drugs On March 14, 2008, Minister of Public Safety, Stockwell Day, announced $8.9 million in funding over two years under the new National Anti-Drug Strategy. This investment is a major step towards a significant crackdown on illegal drugs in our communities.
The funds will help the RCMP to combat the production and distribution of illegal drugs as well as work to dismantle criminal organizations. ...I am proud to be part of the government that is bringing this much needed help to the communities of Yellowhead.
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| Apr 24, 2008 | Prohibition, Pot and Politics There's a certain strong odour a visitor notices when first stepping into the Compassion Club medicinal marijuana distribution centre on Rachel and St-Laurent. It doesn't take any time to figure out what it is. Marijuana activists have called the building home for years, and, if Boris St-Maurice gets his way, the weed will make it back to the forefront of a national dialogue sooner probably than the federal Conservative Party would like.
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| Apr 10, 2008 | One-Quarter of Students Smoking Up During School One in four Nanaimo secondary students is using marijuana while at school.
That's one of the findings of the second annual Safe Schools Survey conducted in Nanaimo secondary schools in February 2007. Almost 5,000 students from Grades 8-12 took the survey.
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| Apr 3, 2008 | Legalize By 2010 Here's a crazy idea that may sound a bit absurd, but follow me through on this:
Cannabis will be legalized in the United States of America by 2010.
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| Mar 30, 2008 | An Apprentice Drug Runner -- In Grade 9 'People Are So Desperate For Money That They'll Put Drugs In A Child's Hand'
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| Mar 28, 2008 | Coping With The Pain "Who is it harming? Where is the victim?" asks Cheryl MacLellan, co-owner of Hemp Country. "If there is no victim, there ought not to be a crime."
Those comments may be surprising coming from MacLellan who is a former Children's Aid Society child protection worker and a former police officer in the detective's office with the Oxford Community Police Service.
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| Mar 28, 2008 | Protection Needed for Kids in Pot Grow Homes: Councillor Children's health and safety is at stake when they grow up in drug houses, Bateman said.
When Langley Township's Public Safety Inspection Teams visit a local home, they often find evidence of drugs. All too frequently, they also find toys and playpens.
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| Mar 17, 2008 | The Dope Rush Think of drugs, and you think of Colombia, Thailand, Afghanistan. But Canada? Nice, peaceful, dull Canada? Believe it or not, there are parts of the country where cannabis provides more jobs than logging, mining, oil and gas combined. Misha Glenny investigates, in the first of two extracts from his new book on organised crime
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| Mar 15, 2008 | Marijuana Smuggling On Rise n 2007, the RCMP allowed armed U.S. Coast Guard officials to be stationed on boats patrolling the St. Lawrence River. Dubbed Project Shiprider, the summer-long operation resulted in the seizure of about 100 kg of marijuana.
"We feel that it's the right direction to go, and there should be more international operations like that," says Harvey.
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| Mar 13, 2008 | Pot Grabs High Spot On Drugs List Ottawa may have become known as the "crack" capital of Canada but the majority of users still like to paint the town green.
Marijuana is the drug of choice followed by crack cocaine on the list of the top five drugs in the city, according to Ottawa police.
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| Mar 12, 2008 | End Pot Prohibition Marijuana should be legal. This statement always seems to garner a lot of attention, and rightfully so, as there are several relatively complex issues surrounding its legalization.
However, there is absolutely no logical reason why marijuana prohibition continues to be a valid issue.
All the facts point to one solution: legalization.
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| Mar 6, 2008 | The Cost Of Getting High The UN Office of Drugs and Crime reports that Canada now has the highest proportion of marijuana users in the industrialized world at 16.8% for those between 15 and 64 years of age. Eight percent of youth report using marijuana daily. The most recent Canadian Addictions survey indicates that while youth alcohol-use rates have stayed relatively consistent since 1989, use of marijuana by youth has almost doubled in the same period.
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| Feb 22, 2008 | War On Drugs Is Blowing Up In Our Faces, Expert Warns Oscapella is absolutely convinced that the prohibition of drugs is "the most significant failing of the criminal justice system of the 20th, and now, 21st centuries." ...
On this 100th anniversary of prohibition, maybe we have to ask ourselves, are we addicted to prohibition?
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| Feb 18, 2008 | 100 Years Of Sobriety In Vancouver In 1923, without debate or discussion, it was announced that "there is a new drug in the schedule," and the use, sale, and possession of marijuana was made illegal, largely for fear that Mexican migrants and Negro jazz musicians would use it to seduce white women. It was understood that the laws would not be applied to the white populace.
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