Archive for July 13th, 2007
Bush’s legacy – one disasterous blunder after another
Friday, July 13th, 2007The Nation, US
30 Jul 2007
Katha Pollitt
PARDON WHOM?
Dear George W. Bush,
I know you’re getting a lot of flak for commuting Scooter Libby’s sentence, but I say, Stick to your guns. The man has definitely suffered enough, what with everyone making fun of his nickname and comparing him to Paris Hilton. Besides, as you pointed out, Libby’s [...]
Prohibition makes cannabis cooler with the kids
Friday, July 13th, 2007Ottawa Citizen, ON
13 Jul 2007
Dan Gardner
THE POLICE AREN’T EXPERTS ON DRUG USE
Well, thank goodness the Conservative government has silenced all talk of liberalizing Canada’s marijuana laws. The way things were going, teenagers may have completely stopped smoking pot.
What’s that, you say? I have it backward?
Everybody knows it’s the namby-pamby approach that leads to more [...]
Freedom of speech not respected on CFL website
Friday, July 13th, 2007Metro, BC
12 Jul 2007
Marty York
CFL’S POT COLUMN GOES UP IN SMOKE
Sean Millington’s Pot Shots Have Disappeared Into Cyberspace.
The CFL yesterday deleted a column from its website in which the former player-turned-broadcaster suggested marijuana use in the league is rampant and commissioner Mark Cohon is planning to waste money with an unnecessary drug policy. The [...]
Letter to Editor: Police enforcement ineffective
Friday, July 13th, 2007Victoria Times-Colonist, BC
13 Jul 2007
MARIJUANA LAWS DO HARM, NOT GOOD
It’s remarkable that Canada has almost three times more pot smokers than Holland, where it is legal. The main effects our laws seem to have is ensuring that we spend more money on ineffective police enforcement and incarceration of otherwise law-abiding citizens.
Gangs like it illegal because [...]
Another California dispensary closes its doors
Friday, July 13th, 2007San Francisco Chronicle, CA
13 Jul 2007
Wyatt Buchanan
NORTH BEACH POT CLUB LOSES BID FOR PERMIT
A medical marijuana dispensary that has operated in North Beach for four years was denied a permit to keep its doors open by the San Francisco Planning Commission Thursday.
The Holistic Solutions dispensary was the first operating club to be denied a permit [...]
Drug laws have only succeeded in creating a black market
Friday, July 13th, 2007The Morning News, AR
12 Jul 2007
John Lyon
WAR ON DRUGS A FAILURE, RETIRED POLICE OFFICER SAYS
NORTH LITTLE ROCK — America’s war on drugs has done more to spur the drug trade than throttle it, said a former big-city cop who now advocates legalizing narcotics.
“The war on drugs has been one of the biggest public policy failures [...]
CBC pulls the plug on pot spoof
Friday, July 13th, 2007The Canadian Press
Fri Jul 13
Jeremy Hainsworth
CBC targets prince of Pot in Hockey Night in Canada suit
VANCOUVER (CP) – Canada’s so-called Prince of Pot says he’s received a legal notice from he CBC telling him to stop promoting a hockey game screening event as “Hockey Night in Vansterdam.”
Marc Emery had purchased a 50-inch plasma-screen TV and [...]