The Conservative government plans to bring in an American-style prison system that will cost billions of taxpayer dollars and do little to improve public safety, according to a report released Thursday in Ottawa.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Hundreds of protesters gathered in Vancouver on Saturday as part of 'The Worldwide Rally for the Prince of Pot', a global rally held in over 100 cities to demand freedom for marijuana activist Marc Emery.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Rahim Jaffer, a former Conservative MP known for his hardline stance on drugs, has been busted for drunk driving and cocaine possession.
The author of Vancouver's ground-breaking Four Pillars drug strategy criticized the federal government's "utterly failed" approach to drug use in his resignation notice this week.
The Conservative Public Saftey Minister thinks a federal election would kill the Harper government's nasty new crime bills. This is exactly why we need an election.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Sunday that Canada will train Mexican police officers to assist Mexico in its brutal war against rival drug cartels.
The media have had very little to say about Bill C-15, a federal Conservative bill currently working its way through Parliament. This legislation will require that everyone convicted of growing a single marijuana plant or more must spend a minimum of six months in jail.
A constitutional lawyer representing two Canadians in a U.S. prison is taking the Harper government to court to prove it got its facts wrong when it denied them transfers to a Canadian jail.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Conservative Justice Minister Rob Nicholson lashed out at the Senate today, accusing them of blocking the Conservatives so called “law and order' agenda.