For Harper Tories, Prison Spending Trumps Seniors
The Harper government is prioritizing new prison spending over maintaining seniors' retirement benefits, for reasons known only to itself.
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Reconsider Pot Prohibition, International Panel Urges Harper
The Global Commission on Drug Policy says it's “very weird” that Canada is taking a tougher line on marijuana when governments across the globe are reconsidering the war on drugs.
The Vancouver Sun: Provincial Leaders Must Take a Stand on Marijuana
"The case demonstrating the failure and harms of marijuana prohibition is airtight. The evidence? Massive profits for organized crime, widespread gang violence, easy access to illegal cannabis for our youth, reduced community safety, and significant - and escalating - costs to taxpayers."
Crime Bill to Return to House of Commons With a Few Changes
The federal government's omnibus crime bill will be heading back to the House of Commons after senators approved changes to Bill C-10 early Monday.
Opus LIVE with Mik Mann: February 27, 2012
CANNABIS CULTURE - Cannabis activist and BC Marijuana Party candidate Mik Mann (also known as Opus) presents his LIVE show on the Pot TV Network. In this episode: The return of the SCROG, protest season checklist and more.
Omnibus Crime Bill Amended by Senate Committee
The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs committee passed Conservative amendments to the government's controversial omnibus crime legislation Monday morning, signalling the government's admission that at least some parts of the bill need changing.
Pot Legalization Activists Caught in a ‘Cannabis Conundrum’
About 75 years ago, parliamentarians sounded the alarm over an emerging "menace" — marijuana — that if left unchecked, could have "far-reaching, poisonous and demoralizing effects" on the country's youth, according to debate records.
Conservative Vic Toews Dodges Vancouver Protesters
About 40 protesters gathered outside the River Rock Casino to decry Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and the Conservative government's most recent crimes against the Canadian people.
First Health Canada Helps Prosecute Marijuana Growers, Then Asks Them for Advice
Montreal’s Centre de Compassion, a medical marijuana facility, was raided last year and subsequently shut down, its director Marc-Boris St. Maurice charged with trafficking.
Vancouver’s First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Raid
CANNABIS CULTURE - In the first of its kind in the city since medical marijuana dispensaries began opening about 15 years ago, Vancouver police conducted a raid on the storefront location of a med-pot supplier on Tuesday, seizing cannabis and computers and arresting the 60-year-old manager.
