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…
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It’s Only a Matter of Time Until Changes Come to Marijuana Laws
November 10, 2010 | 3 views | No Comments
Posted in The Vienna Declaration – Sign Today! Tell Your Friends!
July 11, 2010 | 2 views | No Comments
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 [...]
G-420 Parade And Protest
June 23, 2010 | 0 views | No Comments
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, [...]
Harper’s Inhumane Prison Plan
June 19, 2010 | 1 views | No Comments
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 [...]
C-15 Has Returned – Now Called S-10
June 9, 2010 | 0 views | No Comments
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 [...]
Canada’s Federal Jail Population Set to Rise 70 Percent
March 10, 2010 | 15 views | No Comments
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 [...]
