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Prohibition / Drug Policy
Cannabis: Our Position for a Canadian Public Policy, Report of the Senate Special Committee On Illegal Drugs
In 2002, the Canadian Senate Special Committee On Illegal Drugs wrote this extensive report called "Cannabis: Our Position for a Canadian Public Policy". During their study of the issue, Senate Committee members visited the BCCCS to learn more about our model for dispensing medicinal cannabis. The report concludes that the harms associated with cannabis are due to its prohibition, and recommends that cannabis be legalized and regulated.... [...More]
Changing the Frame: A New Approach to Drug Policy in Canada
Leading experts in drug policy call on government to reject Bill C-10, rethink Canada's drug laws
Today, members of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC) released their foundational paper on drug policy reform outlining the Coalition's vision and plans for creating a new drug policy for Canada.... [...More]
New poll: 66% Canadians are in favour of the legalization or decriminalization of marijuana
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355,000 Signatures to Legalize Pot in Washington
OLYMPIA, Wash. Supporters of an effort to legalize and regulate the recreational use of marijuana in Washington state plan to turn in signatures this week to qualify their initiative.
New Approach Washington expects to turn in more than 355,000 signatures to the secretary of state's office on Thursday, said the group's campaign director, Alison Holcomb.... [...More]
Tory Omnibus Crime Bill: Pierre Claude Nolin, Conservative Senator, Says He Can't Support Government Crime Bill
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Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines for Canada (LRCUG): A Narrative Review of Evidence and Recommendations
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One of our cultivators got busted and is being sentenced on Friday. We need members to be there to show the Crown what sort of people are helped by compassionate cultivators.
Please come out and support your cultivator. Do not let them take away his house.
NOTE: There is a scanner at the door, so do not bring medicine or large backpacks with you.
WHERE: 222 MAIN ST.
WHEN: 9AM, FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2011
MORE INFO: FRONT DESK
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BCCCS Speech To 420 Rally
Last Wednesday, the BCCCS addressed the 420 rally in Vancouver, speaking to over 10,000 people, primarily in the 18-24 age group of who only 1 in 3 voted in the last election. As events would have it, it was 4:10pm by the time I got on, there was a thick sea of people and the energy was absolutely primed!!!! ... [...More]
Canadian Senate Passes Bill S-10
On December 13 the Canadian Senate Passed S-10 (formerly known as C-15 and C-26
before that). So, where does that leave our community?
S-10 proposes Mandatory Minimum Sentences of 6 months for growing 6 or more
marijuana plants, and 18 months for producing any amount of hashish or edibles
(cookies, brownies, etc). S-10, like C-15 and C-26 before it, has been opposed by
every expert as a massive waste of money that will increase crime and violence on
our streets. In response, the Stephen Harper Conservatives have been unwilling and... [...More]
BC Compassion Club Opposes Bill S-10 for Proposing Mandatory Minimum Sentences Against Patients and Cultivators
Members and supporters of the BC Compassion Club Society will be holding rallies in Vancouver on Saturday, October 2 at 12.30pm, as part of a nation-wide Day of Action against Bill S10.... [...More]
Former San Jose Police Chief Speaks For Legalization
In the July 25, 2010 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle, former San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara--a 35-year veteran--writes about some of the important reasons why he's voting yes in California's November ballot to legalize and tax possession of cannabis for adults.... [...More]
Vienna Declaration: Abandoning moralistic war on drugs becomes centrepiece of AIDS meeting
A Canadian-led initiative that calls on governments to abandon the moralistic war on drugs and adopt evidence-based drug policies has become a centrepiece of the International AIDS Conference.
The Vienna Declaration – a scientific statement that argues the criminalization of drug use is fuelling the HIV/AIDS epidemic – has garnered a vast array of supporters, including Nobel Prize winners, political leaders, law-enforcement officials, public-health officials and community groups.... [...More]
Experts In UK Turn Against War on Drugs
Advocates of drug law reform had reason to celebrate today after public statements by senior figures in the medical and legal community suggested the argument was turning in their favour.
The chair of the Bar Council argued in his most recent report that decriminalising drug use would have substantial public benefits, while the editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the UK's most well-respected medical publication, came out publicly in support of drug law reform.... [...More]
