Top Stories (2005) -
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| Feb 11, 2005 |
CN BC:
Local Judge Sends Critics A Message If Judge Wilf Klinger Were Permitted To Write A Letter To The Editor Explaining Why Judges Impose The Sentences They Do, He Probably Would |
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| Feb 10, 2005 |
CN AB:
Guard Charged With Trafficking EDMONTON - A guard at the Edmonton Remand Centre was arrested for drug trafficking Tuesday just before entering the facility. |
| 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 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? <br><br> Another example (like the war in Iraq), where we are more in tune with our European ancestors than our Commonwealth cousins.] |
| 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: <a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/nr-cp/2005/2005_92_e.html" target="_blank">August 24, 2005: Health Canada allows Adderall XR? back on the Canadian market</a> Who can protect us against Health Canada? ] |
| Feb 8, 2005 |
CN AB:
Police raid orchid grow-op Using a battering ram to force entry through the front door of the home a few days ago, officers found perfectly legal orchids growing inside instead of marijuana plants, [Canadians should all be encouraged to grow herbs and vegetables in their homes due to our climate, and offset the rising cost and contamination of the food supply. This would also help keep police in check.] |
| 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 6, 2005 |
Europe:
Spain to Test Cannabis As Aid for Patients Spain's socialist government has given the go-ahead for the most wide-ranging trial of therapeutic cannabis ever conducted, putting the country at the forefront of drug policy. Four hospitals, 60 pharmacies and up to 1,500 patients in Catalunya will take part in a year-long pilot programme sponsored by the regional government to establish the drug's effectiveness in treating a range of conditions. [They must have realized watching the Canadian program was a waste of time] |
| Feb 5, 2005 |
CN QU:
Pot Sentences Softened People convicted of minor drug offences shouldn't necessarily be doing time behind bars, according to the Quebec Court of Appeal. |
| 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, <strong>public-policy decisions are governed all too often by political instead of health concerns...</strong> [If it weren't so, then cannabis would be legal] |
| Feb 3, 2005 |
So You Want to Grow Your Own Pot I, as a proud pot-smoking Canadian, have been a trifle disturbed by some of the anti-drug rhetoric floating around lately. We've seen such gems as Anne McLellan labelling all pot smokers as "stupid" and the shameless use of an American national tragedy to push an inane anti-drug agenda: namely, advertisements linking drug use to terrorism. This is spin that makes dervishes look amateur. [How can you tell this is NOT from mainstream media ?] |
| Feb 3, 2005 |
CN BC:
School Drug Policy Shelved In recent weeks, the District's Parent Advisory Council slammed draft Policy No. 300.1: Use of Illegal Drugs, Alcohol and Inhalants, which was undergoing six weeks of field-testing, saying it was seemingly based more on a discipline approach rather than a preventative approach to drug use. [Parents fighting back for a change] |
| Feb 3, 2005 |
CN BC:
Drug-Trafficking Charge Dismissed Over Police Arrest 'Ends Do Not Always Justify Means,' Judge Says Of Cocaine Bust. Drug-trafficking charges against a Vancouver man found with 24 kilograms of cocaine have been dismissed because of "planned and deliberate" Charter violations by Vancouver police. |
| Feb 2, 2005 |
CN QU:
Judge cites racial profiling, throws out charges A Montreal judge has thrown out drug charges against a black man, saying he was a victim of racial profiling. |
| Feb 2, 2005 |
CN BC:
Victoria pot activist fined $500 A medical marijuana activist was fined $500 Wednesday for lighting up five joints at a pro-pot rally. Leon Edward (Ted) Smith, 35, was found guilty of marijuana trafficking after he lit up five marijuana joints at a pro-marijuana rally at the University of Victoria in November 2000. |
| Feb 2, 2005 |
Make Good Choices "Make the right choice about drugs," the parent tells the child, cigarette dangling out of the corner of his mouth, wine bottle clutched in her hand. [Until all drugs are regulated the same, the situation will never change] |
| Feb 2, 2005 |
PUB LTE: American Feels Lost I also have some good advice. Carefully observe U.S. drug policy-then do the opposite. Don't follow us - we're lost. |
| 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 ] |
| Feb 1, 2005 |
Corporate Cannabis Will a New Marijuana Mist Become the Aspirin of the Twenty-First Century? |
| Feb 1, 2005 |
Response consistency in young adolescents' drug use self-reports: a recanting rate analysis. Conclusions: The high levels of recanting uncovered cast doubts on the reliability of drug use reports from young adolescents. Failure to address this response error may lead to biased prevalence estimates, particularly within school surveys and drug education evaluation trials. [This published study confirms suspicions when kids (or adults) are asked about drug use - they will not honestly report whether they break the law. |