Top Stories (2007) -
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| Oct 17, 2007 |
New Money, Same Old War It's probably helpful at this point to review a couple of simple, if inconvenient, truths. Prohibition doesn't work. It's been the law of the land since 1929 and it hasn't made a dent in either supply or demand. Law enforcement doesn't work. You can buy illegal drugs in every town in Canada. You can acquire illegal drugs in every prison in Canada. If law enforcement can't control drugs in prisons, it takes a particular kind of idiot to think they'll be successful controlling them on the streets of a democratic country. |
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| Oct 16, 2007 |
Green Party More Than Just Tree-Huggers Green is for marijuana, a carbon tax, income splitting for couples and dying with dignity, according to federal party leader Elizabeth May. - - Along with a $50/tonne carbon tax to limit pollution, the Greens are touting legalized and taxed pot, universal child-care and a tax system that encourages more family time at home and with friends by splitting taxable income. |
| Oct 16, 2007 |
Curiosity About Drugs Shouldn't Be a Crime For many years, I have been able to successfully stick my head in the sand about illegal drug use. My older child started high school this fall. The sand is crumbling away. |
| Oct 16, 2007 |
ON:
Pro-pot Protest Planned Protesters calling for the decriminalization of one of Canada's most readily-available illegal drugs are planning a massive march through Cornwall this weekend. Organizers of the first annual "Walk 4 Weed," which is being promoted by local pro-pot group Cannabis Cornwall, are hoping at least 400 people will peacefully march through the city Saturday afternoon. |
| Oct 15, 2007 |
Harper Gets Tough On Drugs, Soft On Logic Harper promises that someone caught selling even the smallest amount of drugs will face harsh penalties. Frankly, doesn't the government have better things to devote tens of millions of dollars to than chasing around people dealing a few grams of marijuana? Wait a minute: five years ago, wasn't there widespread support for legalizing marijuana? |
| Oct 14, 2007 |
OPP Officer Charged Following Drug Raid A longtime local OPP officer, now working in northern Ontario, is charged following a drug raid by the provincial police near Thunder Bay. Det.-Const. Lynn MacKay, who worked in London for years under her married name, Lynn Pretty, before joining the Nipigon OPP, was charged along with her boyfriend following an Oct. 5 raid on a house that netted $6,000 worth of marijuana. |
| Oct 12, 2007 |
Canada Chooses Cannabis, Not So High On Steroids Of the tiny numbers of Canadian athletes who test positive, it's more likely to be for cannabis than anything truly sinister. |
| Oct 11, 2007 |
Great Hemp Hope Is Barrie Farmer's Hemp Oil The Key To The Future Of Ontario Agriculture? "Rope, not dope" was my slogan some years back, when I was involved in a successful campaign ( yes, we do win some battles ) to legalize industrial hemp in Canada. My eye was on the 25,000 industrial products hemp was thought to offer, a farm-friendly, pesticide-free, green source for everything from clothing to rope to paper to plastic. |
| Oct 11, 2007 |
Marijuana Party Candidate Gets Three Months For Trafficking VANCOUVER - Former Marijuana Party candidate Marc Boyer has been sentenced to three months in jail after pleading guilty in Vancouver Provincial Court to possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. |
| Oct 9, 2007 |
Reefer Madness Studies have suggested that as many as 1 in 4 cannabis users may be genetically at risk for developing schizophrenia or a related psychotic disorder. Now, a new study reveals all users are at risk.[1] [Reefer Madness at its best] |
| Oct 9, 2007 |
Pot Holes In Harper's Drug Policy What really irks me is the fact that possession and/or distribution of marijuana also falls under this new law. I'm all for the legalization, not decriminalization, of pot. I believe that this is one illegal substance that should not be categorized along with other, more serious drugs. |
| Oct 6, 2007 |
What's Harper Smoking? Stephen Harper's announcement Thursday of a new national drug strategy served at least one valuable purpose: It conclusively demonstrated that the prime minister knows nothing about drugs or drug policy. The list of misinformed, misleading or nonsensical statements uttered by Mr. Harper is long and this space short, so let me skip quickly to the highlights. |
| Oct 6, 2007 |
Conservative Anti-Drug Plan Blasted Critics of the Conservative government's anti-drug plan are calling it everything from naive to politically opportunistic and a threat to the civil liberties of Canadians. A coalition of Vancouver health and social groups says prison terms and attempts to scare users straight won't solve Canada's illegal drug problem. "You just can't incarcerate your way out of this," former Vancouver mayor Philip Owen, a member of the Beyond Prohibition Coalition, said yesterday. "The United States locks down 2.3 million people every night." |
| Oct 5, 2007 |
Why a War on Drugs Just Won't Work Basing policy on belief, not facts, dooms strategy to failure from the start...Here's the thing: Health issues can't be resolved through ideology. |
| Oct 4, 2007 |
Drug Dealer Needed Cash to Pay Lawyer Three weeks after receiving a conditional sentence for selling marijuana, a Regina man was back peddling pot once again -- this time to raise money to pay his lawyer. |
| Oct 4, 2007 |
Med Pot's Slow Access? As the Montreal Compassion Centre gets ready to celebrate the official opening of their new digs on 72 Rachel E. this Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m., relations between the benevolent marijuana distribution organization and the bureaucrats running Health Canada's Medical Marijuana Access program remain as stilted as ever. |
| Oct 4, 2007 |
Tories' War On Drugs Termed US-Style The government is embracing a U.S.-style "war on drugs" that approaches drug abuse as more of a criminal matter than a health issue, Liberal and New Democratic Party critics said yesterday. |
| Oct 3, 2007 |
Ottawa's New Drug Policy Wrong Way To Go 'The party's over," federal Health Minister Tony Clement intoned this past weekend. Mr. Clement was talking about drug users, but it wasn't entirely clear which ones...All the available evidence suggests that this will be a waste of time and money. Worse, it could cost some lives and ruin others. |
| Oct 3, 2007 |
BC:
US War Deserter Is Held After Pot Arrest In Nelson NELSON - A U.S. army deserter has been arrested in Nelson. Robin Long, 24, was arrested by police on a countrywide warrant on Monday. Long, who is from Ontario, was in Nelson visiting friends and staying with fellow war resisters. But Nelson police Chief Dan Maluta said Long was arrested as a result of regular police work, not because they were targeting war resisters. |
| 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. |