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It’s Only a Matter of Time Until Changes Come to Marijuana Laws

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 18:06

It’s Only a Matter of Time Until Changes Come to Marijuana Laws

By Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun
 
Now that the smoke has cleared from the marijuana legalization vote in California, it’s obvious the real issue in the drug war, as in Afghanistan, is an exit strategy.
 
For the first time since the cannabis pr…

Category: In The News, Legalization, World

The Vienna Declaration – Sign Today! Tell Your Friends!

Sunday, July 11, 2010 9:20

The Vienna Declaration – Sign Today! Tell Your Friends!

The criminalisation of illicit drug users is fuelling the HIV epidemic and has resulted in overwhelmingly negative health and social consequences. A full policy reorientation is needed.   In response to the health and social harms of illegal drugs, a large international drug prohibition regime has been developed under the umbrella of the United Nations.1 [...]

Category: Drug War, Legalization, World

G-420 Parade And Protest

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 8:09

G-420 Parade And Protest

Location Dundas Square Yonge and Dundas Toronto Event Picture:  Come down to the G-420 Protest Saturday, June 26 at 12pm Dundas Square, Toronto   Bring your buds, bring your friends, but leave your masks at home! Anyone in masks will be assumed to be a police officer/agent provacateur!   Come down, protest and drug war, [...]

Category: Drug War, Legalization, World

Harper’s Inhumane Prison Plan

Saturday, June 19, 2010 8:11

Harper’s Inhumane Prison Plan

By. Conrad Black, National Post   In the past two years, as regular readers in this space would know, thanks to my gracious hosts in the U.S. government, I have had what could be called extensive hands-on experience of the American correctional system. I have been tutoring and teaching fellow prisoners in English, and in [...]

Category: Drug War, Legalization, World

C-15 Has Returned – Now Called S-10

Wednesday, June 9, 2010 23:14

C-15 Has Returned – Now Called S-10

Rob Nicholson today reintroduced C-15 as Bill S-10, the bill is slightly different, with mandatory minimum sentences kicking in at 6 plants, not 1. So, to say again, the bill no longer has a mandatory minimum sentence for 1 marijuana plant.   That being said, the bill is a disaster for Canada. S-10 will imprison [...]

Category: Drug War, Legalization, World

Canada’s Federal Jail Population Set to Rise 70 Percent

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 22:35

Canada’s Federal Jail Population Set to Rise 70 Percent

By. Kat Lee THE CITY is banking on the federal government sending more people to jail for longer periods of time if its hope of an economy-boosting jail here is to be realized. A city co-sponsored feasibility study lists three pieces of legislation the federal government wants passed, each one of which would result in [...]

Category: Drug War, Legalization, World

Victoria Police Censor Officers Who Oppose Prohibition

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 22:34

Victoria Police Censor Officers Who Oppose Prohibition

WhyProhibition.ca is joining with LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) and the BCCLA (British Columbia Civil Liberties Association) in opposing the decision by Victoria Police to censor one of their officers. It’s clear that police departments across Canada and the United States consistently speak out in favour of prohibition, including producing, in the case of the [...]

Category: Drug War, Legalization, World

Provinces to Spend $2.7B on Prisons

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 22:34

Provinces to Spend $2.7B on Prisons

By. Tonda MacCharles, Toronto Star OTTAWA–Provinces are spending $2.7 billion to expand or replace aging and overcrowded jails across Canada – with little public scrutiny, an Ottawa researcher says. Justin Piché, a PhD candidate in sociology at Carleton University, obtained data through freedom of information requests, email and phone contact with each of the provinces [...]

Category: Drug War, Legalization, World

Conservatives to Ask Top Court to Rule on Vancouver Safe-injection Site

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 22:33

Conservatives to Ask Top Court to Rule on Vancouver Safe-injection Site

By Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun The federal government is appealing the recent ruling of the B.C. Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. B.C.’s appeal court, in a 2-1 decision last month, upheld the lower court ruling that dismissed the federal government appeal. The appeal ruling allowed Insite, the first legal supervised injection [...]

Category: Drug War, Legalization, World

Boycott Starbucks!

Thursday, January 21, 2010 20:34

Boycott Starbucks!

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Category: Drug War, Legalization, World

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