Current Affairs (2005) -
USA (469 items)
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| Nov 22, 2005 |
Teen Pot Smokers Target Of Addictions Campaign In Manitoba, more than 40 per cent of high school students have used marijuana, according to the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba, one of 20 community groups involved in awareness week. Canadians ages 14 through 25 have the highest rate of pot use in the world, according to the Canadian Public Health Association. |
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| Nov 22, 2005 |
Pot Party Founder Free To Head South The founder of Nova Scotia's Marijuana party, on parole for conspiring to traffic marijuana, is free to go south in March. Michael Patriquen recently applied to the National Parole Board to change the conditions of his release, allowing him to travel to Jamaica, Mexico or Cuba with his wife and child. |
| Nov 23, 2005 |
Cops Cope With Growing Problem Five years ago, 95 per cent of Ontario Provincial Police drug enforcement was proactive work. Now, it's 95 per cent reactive, and more than half of the workload centres around marijuana, Det. Insp. Frank Elbers said at OPP headquarters yesterday. [Duh, so what's the logical answer?] |
| Nov 23, 2005 |
Conservative Candidate Backs Pot Mine Federal Health Critic Steven Fletcher's call to shut down the local medicinal marijuana grow-op isn't shared by Flin Flon's Conservative MP candidate. |
| Nov 24, 2005 |
Why Blacks Won't Talk To Police I asked for a show of hands of how many had been stopped by police for no apparent reason. Seventeen of the 19 males raised their hands. [Remember the mantra... the police are our friends.. we pay them to serve and protect us...] |
| Nov 24, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Why The Fuss Over Marijuana Books I don't know a lot of children who read The Journal, so I am not too worried about articles on marijuana warping any young impressionable minds. It seems to me that people who complain about articles on marijuana in the mainstream media think people are nothing but mindless magnets who can't form their own opinions on these issues.... Marijuana is not going away. Let's take it out of the back alleys and bring it around, or even on, |
| Nov 26, 2005 |
Starry Skier Miller Rips Into Strict Drug Policy Calling the International Ski Federation's strict drug policy nonsensical and humiliating, the defending all around champion said... It's a system he slammed as being illogical and rife with hypocrisy for allowing cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and Creatine, while banning marijuana, which is available via prescription. |
| Nov 29, 2005 |
Botched Raid Battle Expected To End A Calgary woman's five-year fight against several police officers who bungled a drug raid at her rented southwest home is expected to come to an end today. |
| Nov 29, 2005 |
In Praise Of Punishment Consider the case of marijuana grow-ops. Anyone in Washington State convicted of running a grow-op can expect a minimum five years in jail. If they're growing on their own property they've just lost their house. If they have young children they can expect social services to remove them. More lies considering Washington state has seen <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v05/n1644/a02.html?265510">Pot Production On The Rise</a>, not to mention a huge meth problem that could be from the clampdown on pot. |
| Nov 29, 2005 |
Officers Alarmed At Increase In Grow-Op Size The increasing size and plant yields of rural marijuana grow operations are an increasing concern to OPP drug enforcement officers. Perhaps one day they will realize that cannabis is a plant like any other and they will never be able to eradicate nature.... until that day comes.... |
| Nov 29, 2005 |
Pot Can Help The Economy, Stupid Marijuana is part of the underground economy, so it is hard to say exactly what effect legalization would have on its price, but there should be enough of a reduction for pot to be cheaper than it is now, even after the government slaps a nice fat excise tax on it. Indeed, the added tax revenue is perhaps the biggest argument in favour of legalising pot. It could help pay for the health problems it is already causing, as well as an improvement in anti-drug programs. |
| Nov 30, 2005 |
Election Kills Marijuana Bill Pot Activist Glad Legislation Is Gone A bill to decriminalize marijuana has died with the fall of the Liberal government -- and pot activists are pleased to see it go. |
| Nov 30, 2005 |
Plenty of Busts Via Snitch Line Surrey RCMP have made 120 grow-op busts so far this year, thanks to tips left on the city's new marijuana snitch line. Want to get even with someone? Want to betray a friend? Got a gripe against an old lover? Forget about justice, the system makes it very easy for you to vent without ever facing the accused.Great role models, eh? |
| Dec 0, 2005 |
Fewer Students Smoke, Use Drugs Legal and illegal drug use among Ontario students in grades 7 to 12 dropped last year for the first time in over a decade. |
| Dec 2, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Both Parties Help Organized Crime For more than a decade, the Liberals have endorsed and pursued a policy of marijuana prohibition. This policy has subsidized the underground economy, wasted valuable and scarce police resources, deprived Canadians of a valuable source of medicine and tax revenue, started a street war in Toronto, while making marijuana easier for kids to get than either alcohol or tobacco. The Tories would not only continue with this policy, but would increase efforts and spending, likely resulting in even more misery and death. It would also increase the dealers' profits. It sounds to me like both parties are in cahoots with "organized crime." |
| Dec 4, 2005 |
Harper Tough On Drug Crime Among the Tory promises: - - Minimum sentences of at least two years for trafficking, exporting, importing or producing heroin, cocaine or crystal meth or more than 3 kilos of marijuana or hashish. - - A commitment not to reintroduce legislation to decriminalize marijuana. Several studies have shown minimum mandatory sentences add an enormous cost burden to the corrections system without offering any clear deterrent. A Conservative government would not only set cannabis reform back many years, we would also see the types of problems experienced in the US. |
| Dec 4, 2005 |
Some Dare To Slam DARE "A 1990 study funded by the Canadian government found D.A.R.E. had no significant effect on the students' use of any of the substances measured," noted the newspaper. Tobacco, beer, marijuana, acid, heroin, cocaine and other substances were part of the tracking. In 2001, the U.S. Surgeon General placed D.A.R.E. under the category of ineffective programs and according to Dr. Gilbert Botvin of Cornell Medical Center said, it is "well established that D.A.R.E. doesn't work." ....Local D.A.R.E. coordinator, Const. Frank McConnell, is a firm believer in the program and proud that it is now being taught in every elementary school in the Central Okanaagan school district. |
| Dec 6, 2005 |
Evidence Shows Harper's Justice Policies Harper said a Conservative government "would impose mandatory minimum sentences of at least two years for trafficking, selling or importing hard drugs like heroin, cocaine or crystal methamphetamine."...Evidence from both Canada and the United States confirms that mandatory minimums fail to deter crime. In fact, a 2001 study commissioned by Justice Canada found absolutely no correlation between the crime rate and the severity of sentences. |
| Dec 6, 2005 |
Marijuana Party Candidate Has Never Touched The Weed "The philosophies of the Marijuana party make a lot of sense," he said Monday. "The prohibition of drugs has not solved any problems with regards to crime." |
| Dec 6, 2005 |
Old Drug Charge Haunts Traveller A city man says his vacation with his wife was ruined after he was detained at the Los Angeles airport because of a 25-year-old drug charge and treated like a suspected terrorist. Travellers beware! |