Archive for October, 2007
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Monday, October 8th, 2007Daily Gleaner, CN 06 Oct 2007 PM’S ANTI-DRUG PLAN PANNED BY COALITION VANCOUVER – Critics of the Conservative government’s new 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 [...]
McCain remains disinterested in the medicinal properties of cannabis
Monday, October 8th, 2007Chicago Tribune, IL 7 Oct 2007 Steve Chapman MCCAIN SHOULD KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT MEDICAL MARIJUANA Through all his years in politics, despite the endless obligation to shake hands, smile for the cameras and coax money out of contributors, John McCain has somehow avoided becoming a complete phony-something that John Edwards and Mitt Romney managed [...]
Patients will suffer under war on drugs political campaign
Monday, October 8th, 2007Montreal Gazette, QU 06 Oct 2007 DRUG STRATEGY WORRIES CRITICS CanWest News Service – The federal government’s new anti-drug strategy is not winning many friends in Quebec, which arguably has the most liberal attitude to recreational drug use in the country. The plan, announced Thursday, commits $64 million, two-thirds of which will be spent on [...]
Ads that say taking drugs is bad will have little impact
Monday, October 8th, 2007Nanaimo News Bulletin, BC 06 Oct 2007 WAR ON DRUGS DOOMED AGAIN Our Conservative minority government in Ottawa is trotting out another old policy warhorse that will surely please the party’s base voter constituency – yet another war on drugs. Health Minister Tony Clement’s latest offensive will entail stiffer penalties for drug offenders and more [...]
Pot arrests based on the colour of your skin
Monday, October 8th, 2007AlterNet, US 05 Oct 2007 Ezekiel Edwards NYC HAS THE MOST MARIJUANA ARRESTS IN THE WORLD ( BUT DON’T WORRY, WHITE PEOPLE, IT WON’T BE YOU ) With the NYPD facing difficult challenges such as combating terrorism and stopping the flow of illegal handguns into the city, what are the police arresting people for at [...]
Medical marijuana is here to stay, says advocate
Monday, October 8th, 2007The Daily Californian, CA Edu 02 Oct 2007 Sameea Kamal MEASURE ON MARIJUANA REGULATION BACK ON BALLOT A measure proposing more oversight of Berkeley medical marijuana dispensaries has been ordered back on the ballot after its narrow rejection in the 2004 election was nullified by a judge in July. Finalizing a tentative decision she made [...]
Inconsistant laws cause confusion
Monday, October 8th, 2007Long Beach Press-Telegram, CA 04 Oct 2007 Tracy Manzer SHANNON DENIES PENDING ACTION VS. POT CLINICS City Attorney Says His Office Is Monitoring Process. LONG BEACH – In a memo issued to the mayor and City Council Tuesday, the city attorney denied his office is taking formal legal action against a group of medical marijuana [...]
Legalization of even marijuana would be a big step into the unknown
Monday, October 8th, 2007Arizona Republic, AZ 05 Oct 2007 Robert Robb IT’S TIME TO CONSIDER LEGALIZING MARIJUANA A recent Government Accountability Office report on drug interdiction in Mexico is so bleak you have to wonder, what’s the point? From 2000 to 2005, according to the GAO, the amount of marijuana flowing into the United States from Mexico increased [...]
Pot parody may attract voters
Monday, October 8th, 2007North Shore News, BC 03 Oct 2007 Jane Seyd WV RIDING COULD GO TO POT Federal Ndp Candidate Thinks Marijuana Should Be Legal The federal NDP candidate for West Vancouver says he’s not worried that a pot-laced parody of Harry Potter he wrote will cost him votes – — on the contrary, Dana Larsen says [...]
Medical Marijuana Access program is an embarrassing oxymoron
Monday, October 8th, 2007Mirror, QU 04 Oct 2007 Chris Barry 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 [...]
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