Last Friday, Health Canada used some creative rule-reading to approve a program that would provide prescription heroin to a small number of hard-core users, and the Conservative health minister isn't happy.

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on mandatory minimum sentencing last Wednesday as Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and fellow committee member Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) sought to create momentum for a reform bill they filed together this spring, the Justice Safety Valve Act (Senate Bill 619).

With two author readings under my bong, I’m about to do a big event this Sunday Sept. 29 in Kensington Market. The Hotbox Cafe is hosting me from 2 - 420pm in their entrance alcove, which faces Augusta Ave. All vehicle traffic is closed because it’s Pedestrian Sunday, which will allow people to gather on the street to hear me preach from my Marijuana Smoker's Guidebook The Easy Way To Identify and Enjoy Marijuana Strains. 
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CANNABIS CULTURE - Health Canada has awarded the first two licenses to produce medical marijuana under its new Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations to Prairie Plant Systems – the same company that produced heavy metal-contaminated, irradiated, and overall terrible cannabis under the old program.

Attorney General Eric Holder's long overdue realization that "too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason" was an important step toward a national recognition that our decades long war on drugs has been ineffective, expensive, and cruel. As bipartisan support grows in Congress for overhauling U.S.
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