Bill C-15 Fans The Flames It Tries To Extinguish
After more than 80 years of fear, arrests and incarceration, it's time to rethink our approach to a mostly benign substance. It's time to legalize marijuana.
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Red Devil: Winner of the 2009 Toronto Cannabis Cup
CANNABIS CULTURE - Medical Grower Mediman heats up the 2009 Toronto Cannabis Cup with his winning Red Devil strain.
Illegal Drugs: Canada’s Growing International Market
A UN report says Canada is the leading supplier of ecstasy in North America as well as a major producer and shipper of methamphetamine for markets around the world.
Bob High’s ‘The Little Potblock That Could’
CANNABIS CULTURE - Cartoonist Bob High takes us on a trip through the history of Vansterdam's Potblock.
Don’t Spend Taxes on Alleged Pot Seed Dealer
Washington state is facing some tough decisions on which taxes to raise or which services to cut. Yet residents should be extremely frustrated by Attorney General Rob McKenna’s push to extradite a Canadian activist to Seattle, where residents will have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to prosecute and imprison him, money which could be better spent on teachers or keeping taxes low.
Hemp Bringing Highs to Farmers’ Lows
100 Mile area farmers are on the cutting edge of local diversification. They’re working with industrial hemp, a crop that was grown for thousands of years before the government banned it.
Harper Government Pressuring Senate To Pass Bill C-15 Before Summer Break
Conservative Gulag Minister Rob Nicholson is pressuring the Senate to pass Bill C-15 (mandatory minimums sentences for marijuana!) before it breaks for summer.
Marc Emery Will Run BC Marijuana Party From US Prison
VANCOUVER - Marc Emery will stay on as president of the B.C. Marijuana Party while in a U.S. prison.
MP Keith Martin: Decriminalize Simple Possession of Pot
The lethal gun battles on the streets of Vancouver, the astounding number of murders in Mexico, and the insurgency that continues to grow in Afghanistan (which results in our soldiers being killed) all have one thing in common: the trafficking of illegal drugs.
Recession Fuels Drug Turf War
More people are dealing drugs as the economy worsens and Toronto police say it has set off a string of violence.
