Jeremiah Vandermeer

Jeremiah Vandermeer

CANNABIS CULTURE - Canada's government, the Conservative Party, has introduced legislation that would create mandatory minimum prison sentences for marijuana. Bill C-15 won't work! Even he USA has begun repealing mandatory minimums for drugs -- so speak up, Canadians, and help defeat Bill C-15!
Medical

The family of a woman who used marijuana to ease the pain of a spinal injury had their house raided and ransacked by RCMP last week after the police received an anonymous tip about a "smell" emanating from the home. Although the authorities found only a few marijuana plants, they have condemned the home and placed the children in foster care under family child protection services.

OTTAWA -- The increase in gang violence on the streets of Vancouver and other Canadian cities has direct ties to the grisly drug-cartel wars that have terrorized Mexico and some American border towns, say Canadian and U.S. police.
Activism

Premier Gordon Campbell has packed away his Dirty Harry rhetoric, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's police photo ops are over, the cabinet boys are back from their whirlwind tour of Ottawa and the gang violence continues unabated. What did you expect? Nothing announced by the federal government last week will have an impact on the current urban gang problem. Sorry. But true.
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