Crime bill changes: round 2
By admin | November 28, 2011
Crime bill changes: round 2
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/Crime+bill+changes+round/5775998/story.html
Tobi Cohen, Postmedia News · Nov. 28, 2011 | Last Updated: Nov. 28, 2011 3:05 AM ET
OTTAWA – After failing to get a single amendment to the controversial omnibus crime bill approved during committee, the Opposition is poised to try again this week when the bill returns to the House of Commons.
While the Conservatives may well invoke closure and limit debate, as they have multiple times before, New Democrats, Liberals and Green Party leader Elizabeth May, have nonetheless given notice on 73 new amendments and debate is scheduled to take place Tuesday and Wednesday in the report stage of deliberation on the bill.
The Conservatives are determined to push the Safe Streets and Communities Act through the Commons before Christmas, and the bill is expected to become law within the first 100 sitting days of the 41st Parliament – March 16, 2012, according to the Commons calendar. Read the rest of this entry »
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Ex Mayor Philip Owen Interview on Mayors for Marijuana
By admin | November 28, 2011
Four former Vancouver mayors have joined a growing coalition trying to legalize marijuana.
Sam Sullivan, Mike Harcourt, Larry Campbell and Philip Owen have co-signed a letter in support of Stop the Violence B.C., saying that prohibition of the drug has been an utter failure, has created a gang-fuelled $7-billion underground industry in B.C. and has done nothing to stop the availability of marijuana.
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Halloweed 2011
By admin | October 27, 2011
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420 seeks smoking policy exemption
By admin | October 8, 2011
Hempology 101 hopes to have weekly lectures and 420 sessions declared a cultural tradition
Oct 06, 2011 | Volume 64 Issue 9
Brandon Rosario
Hempology 101 is currently holding its lecture series and 420 festivities beside the Student Union Building, in compliance with UVic’s smoking policy.
Brandon Rosario
The UVic Students’ Society’s Hempology 101 club has been uprooted for the first time in its history.
Due to the university’s new smoking policy, which prohibits smokers from sparking up in any area within Ring Road, the group has been forced to relocate from its old meeting place on the quad to a new spot beside the SUB building. However, marijuana activist Ted Smith, who has run the club’s weekly 420 sessions for the last thirteen years, has promised members and participants that he won’t be displaced without a fight.
“If the administration doesn’t let us back, we’re going to fight for our way back,” said Smith at a Wednesday rally to a crowd of about 100 pot-enthusiasts.
Prompted to take action by students and faculty who have complained about second- hand smoke around busy areas like the UVic quad and fountain area, the administration has installed fifteen designated smoking benches in locations around campus. But the policy, which went into effect Sept. 1, allows for an exemption to the rules if smoking is deemed necessary for ceremonial purposes, something Smith argues could be applicable, considering the club’s long history and cultural significance. Read the rest of this entry »
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By admin | October 5, 2011
As the song states, “We get by with a little help from our friends”
A dear friend in Nova Scotia needs our support. John Cook, a tireless advocate for medicinal cannabis and Director of the Halifax Outlet of the Cannabis Buyers’ Club of Canada, has had a heart attack. Unfortunately, the blockage is unable to be repaired surgically. John is also suffering from inflammation of the heart and fluid build-up around it (Pericarditis) which could last months. John is out of hospital, but faces a long recovery process at home. One of his medications is almost $100 a pill. While he recuperates, neither John nor his wife Krista, who has been by his side the entire time, can work and are unable to perform any of their normal
day to day activities.
It’s ironic that a man who has supported so many of us – through our pain and illness – is now the one in need of support.
Currently, the Cooks are struggling to keep their heads above water.
If we, as a community, could pool our resources, John and Krista and their two girls, Megan and Hannah, can get through this stressful time and focus on a full recovery.
A fund has been set up that will allow us to support the Cook family.
Contributions needn’t be large, because, as we all know, every little bit counts. We are hoping to help alleviate the financial burdens currently being faced by the Cooks. Contributions can be made at any TD
Bank across Canada. The account is in the name of Sharon Hebb, a close family friend and Godmother of Megan, who is spearheading this effort. The account number is 366390716 .
If you have any questions, please contact Sharon Hebb via e-mail at sharon.hebb@cdha.nshealth.ca
Also, the Cooks believe strongly in the healing power of positive thoughts and wishes. If you would like to reach out to them, please send your messages to his wife, Krista Cook on Facebook.
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‘Legal pot’ program from US gov’t stirs up legalization debate
By admin | September 30, 2011
‘Legal pot’ program from US gov’t stirs up legalization debate
http://www.katu.com/news/politics/national/130709568.html
By NIGEL DUARA, Associated PressPublished: Sep 28, 2011 at 8:48 AM PDT
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found less than an ounce of pot on one passenger: A chatty 72-year-old woman blind in one eye.
She insisted the weed was legal and was approved by the U.S. government.
The trooper and his supervisor were doubtful. But after a series of calls to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Agency and her physician, the troopers handed her back the card — and her pot. Read the rest of this entry »
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Keep Vancouver’s Insite open, Supreme Court rules
By admin | September 30, 2011
Here is the text
http://csc.lexum.org/en/2011/2011scc44/2011scc44.html
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Keep+Vancouver+Insite+open+Supreme+court+rules/5482750/story.html
Keep Vancouver’s Insite open, Supreme Court rules
Harper government to comply with unanimous decision
By Peter O’Neil and Evan Duggan, Vancouver Sun with Postmedia News September 30, 2011 11:18 AM
OTTAWA — The Harper government said Friday it is disappointed but will comply with a unanimous Supreme Court of Canada ruling which concluded that the government’s attempt to shut down North America’s only supervised injection site violates the Charter of Rights.
The judges said the government’s 2008 move to deny a permit extension to Insite, in Vancouver’s downtrodden Downtown Eastside, was “arbitrary,” threatened to undermine health and safety, and was unconstitutional.
“Although we are disappointed with the Supreme Court of Canada decision today we comply,” Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq told the House of Commons. Read the rest of this entry »
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Medical marijuana law under review
By admin | September 29, 2011
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/20…ogleeditorspick
September 28 2011
Medical marijuana law under review
-Current law pits doctors against patients and creates backlogs, critics say.
Health Canada began two days of closed-door talks Wednesday about changes to the controversial medical marijuana law that has faced legal challenges and criticism for being ineffective.
But even as meetings get underway in Ottawa, there are concerns Health Canada is on the wrong track with a law that asks doctors to ignore a sworn obligation to protect patients’ health, while forcing patients to go to great lengths to obtain a drug that many say eases their pain. Read the rest of this entry »
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New pot laws could overwhelm B.C. jails
By admin | September 29, 2011
CBC.ca
New pot laws could overwhelm B.C. jails
CBC News
Posted: Sep 23, 2011 1:00 PM PT
The North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam, is just one of several B.C. jails that are over capacity. (CBC)
Minimum sentences in the federal government’s new ‘tough on crime’ legislation are going to overwhelm B.C.’s overcrowded jails with small-scale marijuana growers, according to the province’s prison guards.
If passed, the federal government’s new legislation will mean a six-month minimum sentence for anyone convicted of growing between six and 200 cannabis plants. Read the rest of this entry »
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Letter to UVic Administration
By admin | September 29, 2011
Sept 21. 2011
To Whom It May Concern
We believe it is in the best interest of the University of Victoria
that the UVSS Hempology 101 Club be granted an exemption from the new
smoking policy for the club’s traditional weekly 4:20 gatherings at
Petch Fountains. The reasons the administration should consider
granting the exemption and avoid the referendum can be summarized
under the following headers:
1)Tradition
2)Science
3)Physical location
4)Future conflict Read the rest of this entry »
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