The Senate has altered a Conservative tough-on-crime bill to remove mandatory minimum sentences for people convicted of growing fewer than 200 pot plants.
The Senate Committee studying C-15, a bill that would bring mandatory minimum prison sentences for marijuana to Canada, has given its approval with minor amendments. The bill now proceeds to the Senate for a final vote.
The fact is there were no weapons, no booby-traps and no criminal records, just a couple of Vietnamese people running a medium scale grow facility. This kind of systemic racism, common in BC, seems to have spread to Ontario.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Rick Simpson, a Canadian man known for treating cancer patients with his signature 'hemp oil', says police have raided his Nova Scotia home - and he won't be coming back to Canada from Europe to face charges.
While the Canadian government refuses to protect its own peaceful, productive natural-born citizen from extradition, Polanski’s adopted country of France is fighting to keep this confessed sex offender from facing the U.S. justice system.