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Injection site safe: Director

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 8:54pm
By DHARM MAKWANA, QMI AGENCY
 
Continued criticism from the U.S. government on Vancouver's supervised injection site is beyond a joke, said one of the program's directors.
 
The 2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report released this week by the U.S. Department of State recommends the government of Canada press Vancouver to eliminate Insite and drug paraphernalia distributions programs, such as clean-needle exchanges, to come in line with international protocols.
 

Canada's rudimentary approach to ‘unselling' drugs

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 1:09am
While U.S. hits hard with Hollywood-style ads, Canada takes a rudimentary approach
 
Simon Houpt, Globe and Mail
 
Nancy Reagan would be horrified. Almost 30 years ago, when a young California schoolgirl asked the U.S. First Lady what advice she would offer to help kids resist the pressure of peers to take drugs, she replied: “Just say no.”
 

Elderly Ontario woman extradited to U.S. on decades-old pot charge

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 5:53pm
National Post
 
TORONTO — A 74-year-old woman from Hamilton, Ont., who attempted to cross the border into New York state earlier this week learned the hard way that the United States does not take kindly to drug charges — no matter how old.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection say Homenella Cole advised border officers at the Lewiston-Queenston border crossing Monday that she was inadmissible to the U.S. because of previous criminal convictions in Canada.

"She said she wanted a waiver to enter the U.S., which is not uncommon," said CBP spokesman Kevin Corsaro.

A routine criminal record check revealed that Cole was the subject of active felony warrant issued on April 1, 1980 by the New York City Police Department.

Starbucks Denies Funding Anti-Marijuana Group

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 10:43pm
By Steve Elliott
 
In the wake of a threatened nationwide boycott by cannabis consumers, coffee giant Starbucks has denied funding an anti-marijuana group.
 
I hope the Seattle-based company is telling the truth. It would break my heart to know that Starbucks was working against the interests of one of its biggest consumer bases.
 
One would certainly hope that a progressive-leaning, forward-thinking company, based in THC-attle, of all places, would know better than to insult its own loyal customers this way.
 

Child tug-of-war spans international border

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 8:00am
By Michael Platt, Calgary Sun
 
“He has to come home.”
 
Phyllis Heltay’s words hang between desperation and disbelief.
 
She’s been fighting for over a year to bring her 11-year-old grandson home to Canada, after he was taken into custody by the State of Oregon and placed in foster care.
 
Noah Kirkman faces the possibility of being permanently adopted out to strangers, despite having a mother and sister in Calgary, and at least three willing homes where the Canadian boy might be cared for by blood-relatives.
 

Government links to US anti-drug campaign

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 4:08pm
New Health Canada website leads to American equivalents
By Carl Meyer, Embassy
 
Questions are being raised after Health Canada's new anti-drug website for youth included links to a similar campaign being run in the US. Health Canada says it had no choice but to link to several American sources on its new youth anti-drug website as no applicable Canadian sources existed. However, others see it as the government moving Canadian policy more in line with its southern neighbour.

 

MARC EMERY IS A MODERN THOMAS JEFFERSON

Submitted by Mandy Potter on Mon, 12/21/2009 - 10:54pm
BY ELLIS WORTHINGTON - www.CannabisCulture.com
Friday, December 18 2009
 
America's Founding Fathers used cannabis for many practical, everyday things, and to get high. If they could see us now, sending former cannabis seed retailer Marc Emery to rot in the godforsaken gulag of America, the world's largest jailer, they would be spinning in their graves so fast that we could solve climate change by generating energy from the spinning corpses of America's Founding Fathers.

America's Prison Spree Has Brutal Impact

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 9:16pm

by Stuart Taylor Jr.

Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009

The November 9 Supreme Court arguments on whether it is cruel and unusual to impose life in prison without parole on violent juveniles who have not killed anybody understandably got prominent media coverage.

But a far more important imprisonment story gets less attention because it's a running sore that rarely generates dramatic "news." That is our criminal-justice system's incarceration of a staggering 2.3 million people, about half of them for nonviolent crimes, including most of the 500,000 locked up for drug offenses.

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