Archive for May, 2006
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Monday, May 29th, 2006by Mark Greer (26 May, 2006) Thanks to DrugSense and the Media Awareness Project, the drug war can be discreditedWhen Mexican President Vincente Fox bowed to U.S. pressure and refused to sign a bill that would have legalized the personal possession of all drugs, DrugSense was there. When England nearly re-criminalized the adult possession of [...]
DrugSense & MAP and International Drug Policy Reform
Monday, May 29th, 2006by Mark Greer (26 May, 2006) Thanks to DrugSense and the Media Awareness Project, the drug war can be discreditedWhen Mexican President Vincente Fox bowed to U.S. pressure and refused to sign a bill that would have legalized the personal possession of all drugs, DrugSense was there. When England nearly re-criminalized the adult possession of [...]
Harper “Not committed ” to drug site
Friday, May 26th, 2006Backers of first supervised injection site say he should be — the centre’s saving lives VANCOUVER — Proponents of Canada’s first supervised-injection site for heroin addicts say they don’t understand why Prime Minister Stephen Harper isn’t committed to the facility that appears to have saved lives and slowed the spread of diseases such as HIV. [...]
Canucks face tough regs
Friday, May 26th, 2006Canada was the first country to regulate medical marijuana use.-May24/06 Health Canada established guidelines to allow Canadians access to marijuana for medicinal reasons in 2001, called Marijuana Medical Access Regulations. The regulations outline circumstances that permit people to use pot for medical reasons under two categories: Category 1 – compassionate end-of-life care Pain or [...]
Pot plants are “special,there madicine”
Friday, May 26th, 2006POT PLANTS ARE ‘SPECIAL, THEY’RE MEDICINE’-May 24/06 Jayne Ball doesn’t have much to be merry about these days. Neither does her husband Bert. “I don’t make any apologies for smoking marijuana,” Jayne said Saturday from her blue low-back chair, drawing in a slow, steady drag from a cigarette. “I think it should be legalized,” said [...]
Former cafe owner faces 10 yrs
Friday, May 26th, 2006POT ADVOCATE CONVICTED ON TRAFFICKING CHARGES -May 24/06 VANCOUVER — The former owner of a well-known east Vancouver cafe that openly sold marijuana until a police raid in September, 2004, was convicted of two marijuana-trafficking charges yesterday. A British Columbia Supreme Court jury found Carol Gwilt guilty of possession of marijuana for the purpose of [...]
South Australia To Ban Hydroponic Gardening Equipment
Monday, May 15th, 2006Reefer Madness grips Australia and gardens get caught in the mix. Hydroponic systems grow legal plants too The Official announcement from Premier Rick Rann of the South Australia Government: In a second term of Government, we will make it an offence to have hydroponic equipment without a lawful excuse. New legislation will require hydroponic-equipment retailers [...]
BC Electricity Companies Must Give Cops Residential Info
Monday, May 15th, 2006by Kevin Diakiw (10 May, 2006) Infringement on privacy of BC residents, say critics Prohibitionists want access to your home The provincial legislature has passed a law requiring electrical companies to forward billing information to municipalities. Bill 25 is in response to a proposal brought forward by Surrey Fire Chief Len Garis in an attempt [...]
Making Canada a Leader in Medical Marijuana
Thursday, May 11th, 2006National Post Stephen Harper has decided to turn marijuana law reform into a mere pipe-dream for 3 million pot-smoking Canadians. This is a tragic mistake: Only in the world of science fiction can a plant become public enemy number one. But the oracle has now spoken, and Canadians will probably have to endure another decade [...]
LEGALIZE MARIJUANA – SENATOR
Monday, May 8th, 2006Canada must never decriminalize marijuana, warns a Conservative Party senator – legalize it instead. “Decriminalization is the worst scenario,” Senator Pierre Claude Nolin said yesterday, the third day of the city’s international harm reduction conference. “It’s not the step in the right direction.”
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