Archive for July, 2007
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007CBC Jul 13, 2007 Judge rules Canada’s pot possession laws unconstitutional A Toronto judge has ruled that Canada’s pot possession laws are unconstitutional after a man argued the country’s medicinal marijuana regulations are flawed. The 29-year-old Toronto resident had been charged with possession of about 3.5 grams or roughly $45 dollars worth of marijuana. The [...]
Bush’s legacy – one disasterous blunder after another
Friday, July 13th, 2007The Nation, US 30 Jul 2007 Katha Pollitt PARDON WHOM? Dear George W. Bush, I know you’re getting a lot of flak for commuting Scooter Libby’s sentence, but I say, Stick to your guns. The man has definitely suffered enough, what with everyone making fun of his nickname and comparing him to Paris Hilton. Besides, [...]
Prohibition makes cannabis cooler with the kids
Friday, July 13th, 2007Ottawa Citizen, ON 13 Jul 2007 Dan Gardner THE POLICE AREN’T EXPERTS ON DRUG USE Well, thank goodness the Conservative government has silenced all talk of liberalizing Canada’s marijuana laws. The way things were going, teenagers may have completely stopped smoking pot. What’s that, you say? I have it backward? Everybody knows it’s the namby-pamby [...]
Freedom of speech not respected on CFL website
Friday, July 13th, 2007Metro, BC 12 Jul 2007 Marty York CFL’S POT COLUMN GOES UP IN SMOKE Sean Millington’s Pot Shots Have Disappeared Into Cyberspace. The CFL yesterday deleted a column from its website in which the former player-turned-broadcaster suggested marijuana use in the league is rampant and commissioner Mark Cohon is planning to waste money with an [...]
Letter to Editor: Police enforcement ineffective
Friday, July 13th, 2007Victoria Times-Colonist, BC 13 Jul 2007 MARIJUANA LAWS DO HARM, NOT GOOD It’s remarkable that Canada has almost three times more pot smokers than Holland, where it is legal. The main effects our laws seem to have is ensuring that we spend more money on ineffective police enforcement and incarceration of otherwise law-abiding citizens. Gangs [...]
Another California dispensary closes its doors
Friday, July 13th, 2007San Francisco Chronicle, CA 13 Jul 2007 Wyatt Buchanan NORTH BEACH POT CLUB LOSES BID FOR PERMIT A medical marijuana dispensary that has operated in North Beach for four years was denied a permit to keep its doors open by the San Francisco Planning Commission Thursday. The Holistic Solutions dispensary was the first operating club [...]
Drug laws have only succeeded in creating a black market
Friday, July 13th, 2007The Morning News, AR 12 Jul 2007 John Lyon WAR ON DRUGS A FAILURE, RETIRED POLICE OFFICER SAYS NORTH LITTLE ROCK — America’s war on drugs has done more to spur the drug trade than throttle it, said a former big-city cop who now advocates legalizing narcotics. “The war on drugs has been one of [...]
CBC pulls the plug on pot spoof
Friday, July 13th, 2007The Canadian Press Fri Jul 13 Jeremy Hainsworth CBC targets prince of Pot in Hockey Night in Canada suit VANCOUVER (CP) – Canada’s so-called Prince of Pot says he’s received a legal notice from he CBC telling him to stop promoting a hockey game screening event as “Hockey Night in Vansterdam.” Marc Emery had purchased [...]
Pharmacuticals join forces to create synthetics – K’ching!
Thursday, July 12th, 2007PipelineReview.com 09 Jul 2007 GW and Otsuka Enter Into Global Cannabinoid Research Collaboration GW Pharmaceuticals plc and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. today announce that they have signed a global cannabinoid research collaboration in the field of Central Nervous System (CNS) and oncology in order to research, develop and commercialize a range of candidate cannabinoid products. [...]
Pot, the poor man’s drug?
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Metro, BC 11 Jul 2007 Marty York CFL HAS GONE TO POT, FORMER PLAYER CLAIMS A lot of players in the CFL smoke a lot of marijuana. This is the word from Sean Millington, who spent 13 seasons as a running back with the B.C. Lions, Edmonton Eskimos, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto Argonauts and [...]
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