Ted on CTV Atlantic !
By admin | November 21, 2012
Watch this Interview with Ted Smith on CTV Atlantic
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Obama must take a stand on cannabis
By admin | November 17, 2012
Obama must take a stand on cannabis
Call it the Marijuana domino effect. Less than two weeks after Washington and Colorado voted to legalize and regulate cannabis, lawmakers in five other states say they are considering similar bills.
In Latin American, Mexican President Felipe Calderon says Uncle Sam now has lost the “moral authority” to ask other nations to maintain the cannabis prohibition and combat trafficking.
A fundamental change has occurred, he added, that requires the rethinking of public policy in the entire Western Hemisphere.
Calderon joined the leaders of Belize, Honduras and Costa Rica on Monday calling for the Organization of American States to study the change, and saying the UN General Assembly should hold a special session on the prohibition of drugs by 2015.
What didn’t seem remotely possible a fortnight ago suddenly seems inevitable. Read the rest of this entry »
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Lecture 9: The Medicinal Uses of Cannabis
By admin | November 17, 2012
featuring guest Speaker Gayle Quin
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Washington vote boosts change in B.C
By admin | November 15, 2012
Les Leyne: Washington vote boosts change in B.C
Liberal MLA Doug Horne will be in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, today representing B.C. at the Pacific Northwest Economic Region conference.
It’s a regular meeting of western provinces and states where officials talk about common concerns.
Marijuana is not on the agenda, Horne said, and he has no plans to bring it up.
But you can bet some hallway chatter will be about the groundbreaking Washington state initiative vote last week that effectively legalizes the recreational use of up to one ounce of pot by adults. Read the rest of this entry »
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Editorial: Referendum needed on policing of marijuana in B.C.
By admin | November 15, 2012
At this point, no one needs to be told that the war on marijuana has been a dismal failure. Or almost no one.
After all, there is abundant evidence from around the world, and from right here in British Columbia, that marijuana prohibition has failed to achieve any of its stated objectives. Indeed, as governments spent trillions — yes, trillions — of dollars prosecuting the war on drugs, marijuana use rates increased, with the potency of the drug increasing and its price decreasing.
And while failing to solve any problems, marijuana prohibition generated entirely new ones.
British Columbians are all too familiar with one of those problems: Gang warfare, as gangs compete for control of the extraordinarily lucrative marijuana market.
The evidence of the failure of marijuana prohibition is therefore abundant and compelling. So compelling, in fact, that an amazing array of individuals and organizations has called for an end to this failed experiment.
Illustrious individuals who support ending the war on marijuana include former B.C. Attorneys General Geoff Plant, Ujjal Dosanjh, Graeme Bowbrick and Colin Gabelmann, and former Vancouver mayors Sam Sullivan, Larry Campbell, Philip Owen and Mike Harcourt, and current mayor Gregor Robertson.
And organizations that have registered their support for ending the war include the Union of BC Municipalities, the Health Officers Council of BC and Perry Kendall, B.C.’s Chief Medical Officer, the Canadian Public Health Association, academics and researchers with Stop the Violence BC, the law enforcement group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, the federal Liberal and New Democratic parties, the B.C. New Democratic Party and many newspapers, including The Vancouver Sun. Read the rest of this entry »
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U.S. Legalization Could Influence Canada’s Pot Politics
By admin | November 15, 2012
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Pot possession charges in B.C. up 88 per cent in 10 years
By admin | November 3, 2012
Pot possession charges in B.C. up 88 per cent in 10 years
A recent report on British Columbia crime trends shows the number of marijuana possession charges continues to climb, despite the fact many British Columbians want to see marijuana decriminalized.
The crime trends report, released in late October by the police services division of the B.C. Ministry of Justice, showed an 88-per-cent increase in possession charges over the last decade: to 3,774 charges last year from 2,004 charges in 2002.
“In an environment where a majority of British Columbians, we now know from recent polling, support legalizing cannabis, in an era in which our teenagers report cannabis is easier to obtain than alcohol despite our prohibition-based enforcement, what are we doing continuing to waste very scarce and shrinking prosecutorial and judicial resources going after marijuana offenders?” asked Kirk Tousaw, a lawyer who represents people charged with drug offences and executive director of the Beyond Prohibition Foundation.
“The public doesn’t want it. The taxpayers don’t want it. The question always left in my mind is, who does want it?”
About three-quarters of the population believe the province would be better off taxing and regulating marijuana, said an Angus Reid opinion poll conducted for Stop the Violence BC, an advocacy coalition of doctors, lawyers, academics, politicians and police officers seeking the end of marijuana prohibition.
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Washington state poised to legalize marijuana, with implications for B.C.
By admin | November 3, 2012
Washington state poised to legalize marijuana, with implications for B.C.
SUNNY DHILLON
VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Oct. 25 2012, 3:06 AM EDT
Last updated Thursday, Oct. 25 2012, 1:41 PM EDT
When they head to the polls in less than two weeks, voters in Washington State will do more than help elect a new president – they’ll also decide whether to become the first U.S. state to legalize marijuana. And a win for Initiative 502 could have ramifications clear across the border, boosting the bid to legalize the drug in Canada while striking a blow to the multibillion-dollar B.C. bud industry.
Geoff Plant, B.C.’s former attorney-general and a member of Stop the Violence BC, a coalition calling for changes to Canada’s drug policies, said in an interview Wednesday that Initiative 502’s most important impact north of the border would be politically.
“For a long time, one of the excuses that’s been used for why we shouldn’t do anything to change the law in Canada is that we can’t get too far ahead of the Americans on this issue. If we were to legalize – so the argument goes – we would antagonize our relationship with law enforcement on the other side of the border,” he said.
“If Initiative 502 passes … then we’re increasingly reaching a point where, in fact, the U.S. law is ahead of Canadian law on this issue. And there’s one less reason why Canadian policy makers should insist on the status quo.”
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Hempology 101 Halloween!
By admin | October 24, 2012
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Lecture 5: Cannabis Chemistry (featuring Dr. Hornby)
By admin | October 19, 2012
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