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At an event to be held at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre Campus this evening, Senator Pierre Claude Nolin will award sixteen individuals from British Columbia’s drug policy reform community with the Queen’s 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Medal.

An Indonesian court Tuesday sentenced a British woman to death for trying to smuggle about 10 pounds of cocaine into the resort island of Bali, the anti-death penalty group Hands off Cain reported. Lindsay Sandiford, 56, cried when she heard the sentence, but had no other comment before being led back to jail.

As of November, any Canadian caught with as few as six cannabis plants faces a mandatory six-month minimum prison term. Ironically, the new rules came into effect at the same time that Washington state and Colorado voted to tax and regulate the recreational use of marijuana by adults.
Arts & Entertainment

CANNABIS CULTURE - I had the ultimate stoner gal pleasure of seeing Method Man live at Toronto’s Sound Academy for his Legend Series Tour on January 10, 2013. (The sound system at this venue can go fuck itself though.)

In peace talks in Havana Tuesday, Colombia's FARC guerrillas called on the Colombian government to consider legalizing coca cultivation. The proposal was part of the FARC's broader proposal on agrarian development and land reform.
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