WHYPROHIBITION.CA - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pledged $555,000 to study the links between cannabis and mental illness, and has put evangelical pastor Chris Summerville in charge of the project.
For more than 70 years, possession of marijuana has been a crime in Canada. For most of that time, there were no exceptions for anyone using it for medical reasons.
Canada’s “Prince of Pot” and Leader of the BC Marijuana Party, Marc Emery, will deliver a two-hour "Farewell" speech on Monday night at the Vancouver Public Library at 6pm.
Ottawa's refusal to allow a Canadian serving a U.S. prison term for drug trafficking to transfer to a Canadian prison suggests the Conservatives' law-and-order stance is affecting its decisions, the NDP claim.