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Lawyers and judges on the front lines of the criminal justice system pleaded with the federal justice minister Monday to tone down some of his upcoming anti-crime measures, saying they will only clog the courts and prisons with the mentally ill and other vulnerable people.

There's a lot of science on the books on the question of marijuana's addictive properties, but is the issue too politicized to get any clear answers?
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The UN released a drug report in 2007 stating a startling fact; 16.8 per cent of Canadians aged 15 to 64 smoked marijuana or used another cannabis product in 2006. Canada ranks fifth in the world behind Ghana, Zambia, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia.
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For Oakland residents who want marijuana policies that protect public safety and secure access for medical marijuana patients, it is the best of times and the worst of times. It just depends on which Oakland you live in.

The Greek government has made proposals to decrimanalise drugs in a bill put forward by the Justice Minister Miltiadis Papaioannou to the committee on social affairs.
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