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| Aug 6, 2007 |
Cannabis Country COREN: Quite so. Theft, rape and assault are also apparently unstoppable, so we might as well decriminalize or legalize them as well. Just because something is common does not mean it is acceptable. Individuals who use this stuff privately are seldom touched. It's the dealers who are arrested and quite rightly too. [The lamest prohibitionist argument of them all... how much public support is there to legalize murder? How many government commissions have studied the issue? ] |
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| Aug 5, 2007 |
Dead Calgary Youth Was Arguing Over Pot CALGARY ( CNS )-- Before he was pushed into the path of an oncoming transit train in Calgary, 17-year-old Gage Jeffrey Prevost was arguing over $10 worth of marijuana, say friends. [Prohibition claims another life. This is the direct result of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act that supposedly protects our children from illegal drugs by letting anyone of any age distribute substances to anyone of any age at any time.] |
| Aug 5, 2007 |
Beware of Uninformed Warnings About Risk But let's assume that The Lancet paper really does show that marijuana causes psychosis. And let's assume the increased risk really is as high as 200 per cent. What does that mean? Nothing. Rather, it means nothing by itself. If the lifetime risk of being crushed by an asteroid were to triple, we would ignore it because the original risk is so tiny. But a tripling of the lifetime risk of getting cancer is serious because the existing risk is big. So to make sense of the increased risk of psychosis, we have to know what the existing risk of psychosis is. Without that, these stats are scary but meaningless. |
| Aug 4, 2007 |
BC:
Medicinal Pot Grower Sees Huge Demand VICTORIA - A Vancouver Island grower of organic marijuana is being inundated with pleas for pot from disease sufferers, but Health Canada says he can supply only one person, a provincial court trial has been told. Eric Nash said he wrote to Canadian Health Minister Tony Clement with a list of 121 people, all approved by Health Canada to use marijuana as medicine and asking him to grow it for them. One of them was a former RCMP officer diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. |
| Aug 3, 2007 |
Activist Spreads His Message The journey for justice, which began in Victoria, has Magnuson rollerblading 12,000 miles to Ottawa, where his journey culminates on Remembrance Day. Many commuters may spot the activist rolling along highways and downtown streets, sporting a Canadian cannabis flag on the end of a hockey stick. |
| Aug 3, 2007 |
Drug House Forfeited To Crown RCMP Say It Is Most Expensive Home Yet Seized A Surrey drug house worth $723,000 has been forfeited to the state, making it the most expensive one yet. |
| Aug 3, 2007 |
BC:
Pot Plants Keep User From B.C. Hearing VANCOUVER - A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has thrown out a complaint filed by a medical marijuana user who objected to a no-drugs-on-the-job policy while seeking work as an extra in the television and film industry. |
| Aug 1, 2007 |
We Need To Inform Our Young People About Pot And young British Columbians themselves have to ask: How much less harmful is it to smoke marijuana than regular cigarettes? According to research into long-term pot use released yesterday, smoking a single joint causes the same amount of lung damage as between 2 1/2 and five tobacco cigarettes. That seems to be because pot smokers tend to inhale more deeply and hold the smoke in longer. Also, joints typically do not have filters. [ A good response:<a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2007/aug/01/new_study_marijuana_does_not_cau" target="_blank">New Study: Marijuana Does Not Cause Psychosis, Lung Damage, or Skin Cancer</a> |
| Aug 1, 2007 |
Tougher Controls Not Needed, Experts Say A British study claiming pot smokers have a 40 per cent higher risk of developing psychotic illnesses does not prove tougher Canadian drug laws are needed, experts say. Canadian researchers say stiffer penalties here have traditionally failed to curb marijuana use in a country that has one of the highest per capita number of pot smokers on Earth. |
| Jul 31, 2007 |
Drugs And The Police In 1967, John Conroy was a clean-cut University of B.C. student and a member of the varsity swim team. It wasn't until after he graduated that he formed the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws ( NORML ) in Canada, becoming its first president....Today, an estimated 600,000 Canadians have been busted for pot possession. A recent United Nations drug report said five million Canadians smoked pot in 2004, the fifth-highest percentage of usage in the world. [ The 600,000 Canadians with criminal records was <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v97/n000/a008.html">true in the early 1990's,</a> but more than <a href="http://www.johnhoward.ca/document/drugs/fact/1.htm" target="_blank">1.5 million are now estimated to have criminal records</a>.] |
| Jul 31, 2007 |
Evansburg Man Plans To Sue Police A man from Evansburg is suing the RCMP for seizing marijuana plants he says he was growing for medicinal purposes. Two years ago, Steve Chorney received a licence under the federal medical-marijuana program to grow a limited number of plants to manage chronic pain in his legs, which has prevented him from working since 1996. At about 10 a.m. on July 23, Chorney said three RCMP members arrived at his house in three separate vehicles, made a bee-line for the plants and started pulling them out of the ground. |
| Jul 30, 2007 |
Reform Pot Laws - Do It For 1.5 Million Canadians IT'S TIME to admit that one of the biggest "drug problems" in this country is the obsolete legal framework that criminalizes, stigmatizes and ultimately fails to regulate marijuana use. ...It's time, almost 40 years after the LeDain Commission called for more liberal pot laws, to make the stuff legal. And to get rid of a needless stigma for so many citizens. |
| Jul 30, 2007 |
Men Get Jail Time For Impersonating Police Officers A Superior Court judge showed little sympathy on Friday for three men who dressed as police officers while trying to rip off a marijuana grow-op near Head Lake in 2003. |
| Jul 26, 2007 |
The Scary Science of Marijuana Scientific developments have established that as many as one in four cannabis users is genetically at risk for developing schizophrenia or a related psychotic disorder. [All the drugs children are prescribed like Ritlan and Adderall are having no effect on developing brains?] |
| Jul 24, 2007 |
AB:
RCMP Seize Medical Pot User's Plants An Evansburg man who takes pot for his pain fears he's about to get sicker after police seized his weed yesterday. ..."According to Health Canada, there is no licence in place for this individual," said Cpl. James House of the Evansburg RCMP. Chorney, though, said he was in the midst of getting his licence renewed in order to move his plants outdoors. [Many legal exemptees have stated that the police subject them to raids and prosecution after the government fails to provide them with timely protection. How can police cause so much harm to the sick and still sleep at night?] |
| Jul 23, 2007 |
You're Being Watched How many of you adults were affected by the oldest brother or sister in the family?... For you teens, think about your little brother or sister before you make a mistake they won't soon forget, say no to drugs and alcohol. |
| Jul 23, 2007 |
Canada Deserves a Full Debate Abou Canada deserves a full debate about marijuana. But it serves no purpose to malign prohibition per es as simple-minded. Most people are law-abiding. When the law prohibits pot or liquor, millions are content to do as they're told. [Welcome to the nanny state mentality] |
| Jul 22, 2007 |
Medicinal Pot Battle Hits Home Rudy Seegobin is licensed by Health Canada to grow his own pot for medicinal reasons. Seegobin, 41, suffers from Crohn's disease, a twisted spinal cord and severe arthritis... The only problem is his house is adjoined to another and the neighbour claims the smell of marijuana permeates through the walls. [If someone was growing vegetables, would they be faced with the same scenario? Police propaganda spread via the media is to blame for situations like this] |
| Jul 21, 2007 |
Family Values Going Up In Smoke Provincial police say the mother, in her 40s, and the daughter, in her 20s, lit up while sitting in a parked car on Harbour Road before the start of Wednesday' Nickelback concert. Call us old-fashioned, but we find it deeply unsettling when parents take recreational drugs with their kids. And far from being the exception, family drug cases are coming to court with increasingly regularity. [Kids in their 20's are considered adults, and it would be perfectly okay for them to go to a bar and drink with a parent, or share cigarettes... hypocrites] |
| Jul 20, 2007 |
BC:
Five Children Detained Five children have been detained by the Ministry of Family and Social Services after they were found in a large marijuana grow-op. Police yesterday said the children, all younger than 16, were at a home in the 4300-block Blair Drive when police raided the premises Tuesday and found over 1,000 marijuana plants. A man was arrested at the scene. |