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Report calls for decriminalizing both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ drugs [23-05-13] The personal use of illegal drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, should be decriminalized as part of a federal-provincial strategy to tackle dru...
NDP, Green party okay with research trial of marijuana use [03-05-13] B.C.’s New Democratic and Green parties say they would not oppose a research trial to evaluate the regulation of adult marijuana use, which would be...
New Health Canada marijuana regulations may drive some into the bush [21-02-13] The Conservative government's new medicinal pot system may lead some patients to illicitly grow their pot outdoors. Under proposed changes taking...
Battle over medical marijuana [11-02-13] More than a decade ago, after several court rulings, the federal government was forced to create regulations allowing people with legitimate needs to ...
The U.S. drug czar weighs in on Canada’s pot habit [11-02-13] Kerlikowske: "I think a patchwork of policies would create real difficulties. We still have federal law that places marijuana as being illegal. T...
Ontario’s top court upholds country’s marijuana laws in medicinal pot case [01-02-13] Canada’s ban on marijuana was effectively upheld when Ontario’s top court struck down the country’s laws related to medicinal pot much to the chagrin ...
Legalize pot and reap the benefit from influx of toking tourists: Liberals [27-01-13] Canada’s economy could benefit from an influx of toking tourists if weed is legalized, the Liberal Party of Canada says in a new analysis that backs t...
We enforced Ottawa’s pot laws. They don’t work [18-01-13] It is time to put ideology and politics aside in favour of a level-headed, evidence-based discussion about the failure of marijuana prohibition and th...
Insite - Not Just Injecting, But Connecting [17-01-13] Last year the HCLU’s video advocacy group travelled to Vancouver, to make a film about Insite, the only legally-operating injecting facility i...
Bolivia wins a rightful victory on the coca leaf [11-01-13] Today the Plurinational State of Bolivia can celebrate a rightful victory, as the country can become formally a party again to the 1961 Single Convent...
‘It opens your heart’ [28-12-12] Exactly a century after ecstasy was first patented, Health Canada has approved the drug’s import for the first Canadian study using the illegal substa...
Canada could learn from Colorado and Washington on pot [25-12-12] The decision by voters in Colorado and Washington to legalize marijuana represents a seismic shift in public attitudes. This historic reform will only...
Study: marijuana a susbstitute for prescription drugs and alcohol [11-12-12] Research being conducted by a former Victoria city councillor is poking holes in marijuana’s reputation as a gateway drug. According to an academic pa...
Pot is now legal in Washington state. Should we do the same? [06-12-12] Although Canada has long toyed with decriminalizing marijuana, that idea was shelved when Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper took office. Earl...
Study shows legalizing pot could earn billions for B.C. [20-11-12] Legalizing marijuana in B.C. could generate $2.5 billion in government tax and licensing revenues over the next five years, according to a study publi...
U.S. marijuana vote threatens to nip B.C. market in the bud [08-11-12] British Columbia’s multibillion-dollar marijuana industry could take a “significant” blow now that two U.S. states – including its closest neighbour...
B.C. pot activists push for legalization after Wash. vote [07-11-12] Pot advocates in British Columbia (Canada) say now that voters in Washington have passed a law to legalize possession of marijuana, it is time for a s...
Op-ed: Approve I-502, legalize marijuana and cripple organized crime in B.C. [30-10-12] Passing Initiative 502 is one of the best ways to reduce international gang violence? Like the violent cartels gripping Mexico, British Columbia is af...
B.C. favours sensible marijuana policy [05-10-12] Last week, delegates at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention voted in support of the decriminalization and taxation of marijuana. This vote was...
B.C. municipal leaders vote to work toward decriminalizing marijuana [26-09-12] British Columbia’s municipal politicians, sensing shifting emotional attitudes towards marijuana and a possible major new revenue source, voted to lob...
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