MarijuanaNews.com : As Canadian Senate Gets Ready To Study Prohibition, Canadian Police Push Prohibitionist Propaganda At Taxpayer Expense. 4 Items

Posted April 13, 2000
NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release April 12, 2000

Senate to Undertake Study on Illegal Drugs

Ottawa - The Senate today unanimously approved Senator Pierre Claude
Nolin’s motion calling for the striking of a special committee to reassess Canada’s
strategy on illegal drugs.
See

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/more_coverage_for_canadian_senat.htm”>More
Coverage For Canadian Senator’s Call For the Legalization of Marijuana.

The committee will consist of five members, who will be appointed very shortly.
Its

mandate will be to review Canada’s anti-drug legislation and policies. To this
end, the Committee, in the framework of a rigorous study of the scientific knowledge now
available, will consult the Canadian public, disseminate adequate and objective
information,
study solutions developed by other countries, and make recommendations for an anti-drug
strategy that will truly reflect the values of Canadian society.

Senator Nolin would like the Committee’s proceedings to be directed towards a national
harm reduction policy, so that the damaging consequences of Canada’s existing policy,
which focuses largely on prohibition, can be avoided.

The Senator pointed out that establishing the committee will give the Senate the
possibility of focusing on the use and abuse of drugs as a social and health problem,
rather than a crime issue.
See

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/reality_of_the_marijuana_situati.htm”>The
Reality Of the Marijuana Situation In Canada: Unequal Injustice.
Alcohol Costs Canadian Health Almost 100 Times As Much As Marijuana.
Tobacco: Almost 200 As Much – Article and Editorial

According to Liberal Senator Colin Kenny, who is known for his avant-garde ideas,
“The Senate is the ideal institution to examine the whole problem of illegal drug
use. The social and economic costs of the war on drugs constitute such a burden for
Canadian society that we must re-examine the issue with complete objectivity. We hope to
propose new avenues to the government, less expensive and above all more effective.”

The Committee will be at work for three years. At the end of this
time, it will submit its final report to the Senate.
(MarijuanaNews note: I hope that this is not used as excuse to wait
3 years before ending marijuana prohibition.)
For additional information about the study please contact Liliane Poir,, Senator Pierre
Claude Nolin’s Office, at 613-993-8969 or by e-mail at
HREF=”mailto:poirel@sen.parl.gc.ca”>poirel@sen.parl.gc.ca.

(MarijuanaNews note: There has been a sharp increase in the level of
prohibitionist propaganda aimed at marijuana growing in Canada. Magnified by very bad
journalism, it is reaching new depths. This should be taken seriously by our Canadian
friends. It should certainly be examined by the Canadian Senate.)
See
Canada’s National Paper Falls For the Party Line
and

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/canadian_police_lie_to_the_canad.htm”>Canadian
Police Lie to The Canadian Media Who Lie To Their Readers
To Justify More Power Over the Canadian People To Please DEAland Narks
An Utterly Wretched Piece Of Pseudo-journalism
and

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/someone_floats_a_rumor_that_deal.htm”>Someone
Floats A Rumor That DEAland Wants To Blacklist Canada;
Washington Denies Everything, But Canadian Prohibitionists Seem To Cheer,
Sort Of… 3 Articles
and

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/rcmp_report_on_marijuana_traffic.htm”>
COLOR=”#0000ff”>RCMP Report On Marijuana Trafficking Contradicts The Party Line
About Marijuana Smuggling From Canada To DEAland. Far More Goes North Than South

April 4, 2000
From The Penticton Herald
mike.turner@ok.bc.ca
Penticton, B.C., Canada
http://www.ok.bc.ca/PH/index.htm
By Gary Simons

MOUNTIES TO RELEASE DETAILS ON MAJOR BUST

Penticton RCMP are expected to announce today the results of a major drug
investigation targeting marijuana ‘grow ops’ throughout the South Okanagan.

Inspector Stew McLeod confirmed police here have cooperated with other RCMP units in the
region to raid several indoor marijuana growing operations.

The operation is believed to have been completed over the past few days, and McLeod said
he expects to release details at a press conference this morning.

While the actual number of raids has not been released, it is known local RCMP detachments
have been focussing on marijuana growing as one of their prime targets over the past two
years. Last year the Penticton RCMP Task Force nailed 23 grow ops, as they are commonly
known by police, and seized approximately $5 million worth of marijuana.

It’s believed 2000 will be another banner year, and the number of busts in the last two
months alone may rival all of the seizures made last year.

However, McLeod said earlier this week that police would not be releasing any details of
the arrests prior to Tuesday because they don’t want to endanger ongoing investigations.

Cpl. Sam Fedyk, drug awareness officer for the RCMP
Sub-division headquarters in Kelowna, said the focus on marijuana growers is being felt
all through British Columbia.

Fedyk remembers busting dope dealers 20 years ago whose marijuana
was mostly bags of ’shake’ or leaves, with THC levels of three per cent or less. THC is
the active hallucinogenic in marijuana. Today, police are seizing marijuana with average
THC levels of 16 to 18 per cent, and occasionally as high as 30 per cent.
See
Time Magazine Is Improving On The Party Line On
“B. C. Bud.” Now it averages 30% THC! That is really B. S. Bud!
and links

One local narcotics officer, Const. Terry Jacklin, says
the marijuana out there today is so powerful that it hardly qualifies as a so-called ’soft
drug’.

“Some people believe we’re not far from seeing people overdose
on THC,” Jacklin said.
(MarijuanaNews note: This is a new one. It is impossible to
consume a fatal overdose of THC by smoking. A person would asphyxiate long before they had
consumed anything like a fatal dose of THC. Remember, people have been smoking hashish for
millennia.)

While there has been a strong movement toward decriminalizing or
even legalizing marijuana, Fedyk says the RCMP remains convinced it should remain
illegal. The main reason, from his point of view, is simply that marijuana is a health
hazard.
See
Great London Times Column and News
From New Zealand Compare Marijuana and Alcohol
and
Two Conservative Papers Endorse Legalization Of
Marijuana.

“When people say marijuana is a harmless drug, that’s just not the
case,” Fedyk said.
See

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/is_marijuana_really_harmless.htm”>Is
marijuana really harmless, like everyone has been saying?

“For one thing, we remain convinced that using marijuana can lead people
to use other drugs.
See

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/those_who_insist_on_keeping_the_.htm”>”Those
who insist on keeping the plant illegal bear a serious degree of moral responsibility for
young marijuana users who do go on to use cocaine, heroin, PCP or other genuinely
dangerous or addictive drugs.”
Alan Bock, of the Orange County Register On the Real Gateway

“If you have an adolescent smoker, eight of 10 are likely to try marijuana,” he
notes. “If you have a non-smoking adolescent, only two of 10 will try it.

“The same way, adolescent marijuana smokers are 85 times more likely to try other
drugs.”
(MarijuanaNews note: The above would seem to confirm that tobacco is
really the gateway drug, if there were such a thing.)

As far as direct effects, Fedyk says it’s well known that both short and long-term memory
can be badly affected by habitual marijuana use, but even worse are the carcinogens
breathed in with the smoke.
See
American
Journal Of Epidemiology Report That Long-Term Use Of Marijuana
Does Not Lead To A Decline In Mental Function Got Minimal Coverage,
Perhaps Because Scores Actually Fell More Among Non-Users Than Among Heavy Users!

While cigarettes are bad, Fedyk says marijuana joints can
deliver from 50 to 100 times the amount of tar to the lungs.
(MarijuanaNews note: That is a sharp inflation of the party
line. NIDA only claims that marijuana has three to five times the tar. Actually, it would
depend on how it is smoked, but there is really very little difference.)
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“Why would you want to legalize that?” he asks.
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(MarijuanaNews note: Well, one advantage to legalizing marijuana is that we
wouldn’t have pathological liars supported by the taxpayers lying to newspapers.)

April 12, 2000
From The Calgary Sun
callet@sunpub.com
http://www.canoe.ca/CalgarySun/
http://www.canoe.ca/Chat/home.html
By Nadia Moharib
See

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/article_from_the_calgary_sun_is_.htm”>Article
From The Calgary Sun Is So Dumb That Reading It Could Cause Brain Damage.
Prohibitionist Drivel At Its Worst.

MARIJUANA A GROWING CONCERN FOR POLICE

Peddlers who push pot are just as poisonous as crack
and heroin dealers and it’s time citizens realize those criminals need to be taken off
the streets, says a Calgary Police drug expert.

Police busted a sophisticated grow operation, seizing close to $140,000 worth of plants in
the city’s northwest last week.

“If this was $100,000 of Ecstasy it would hit the front pages across Western Canada.
If it was cocaine or heroin it would have a lot of people upset,” said Det. Pat
Tetley.

“But when you see $100,000 worth of marijuana, the same stigma is not attached.”
Tetley says it should be.

Today’s pot is 10 times more potent than it was when “baby
boomers were passing around marijuana cigarettes in the ’60s or ’70s,” he said.
(MarijuanaNews note: There is no data on THC levels from the
‘60s, so that is the first clue that he is lying.)

See

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/marijuana_prohibition_and_potenc.htm”>Marijuana
Prohibition And Potency, Price, And Safety -”Is Marijuana Stronger Than It Was Back
In the ’60s, When Everyone Thought It Was Harmless?”
and

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/canadian_magazine_takes_skeptica.htm”>Canadian
Magazine Takes Skeptical Look At Claims About Potent BC Marijuana

Ninety percent of home invasions in Calgary are motivated by a search for grow
operations.
(MarijuanaNews note: Why we should legalize marijuana.)
Tetley said the operation bust last week had links with a B.C. dealer, showing organized
crime in its truest sense.

The operation was nestled in an upscale community, at Arbour Ridge Close N.W.

In 1998 and 1999, the drug unit executed 400 search warrants on grow operations.
Copyright: 2000 The Calgary Sun

(MarijuanaNews note: Meanwhile, on the Internet, the Mounties have a web site
that is lying to the children of Canada about marijuana, among other things.)

Excerpts from www.Deal.org :

Claims and facts regarding drug legalization

From http://deal.org/english/resource/diglib/cannabis/mrjn_a2.htm

“Claim:

Excerpt — Countries such as Great Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland
are free and open societies where drug use is allowed with no adverse effects. “

“Fact:

Excerpt — Marijuana use is up 500% among 13 year-old girls and 400% among
13 year-old boys in the Netherlands.”

(MarijuanaNews note: Actually, I am not sure where they got this
“data.” I cannot find anything specifically for 13 year-olds broken down by
gender, but the closest that I could find is that — in Amsterdam — between 1987 and 1997
monthly use for the age group 12 though 15 increased from .06% to 2.3%. The use
rate for 13 year-olds would have to be well below that.

Obviously, it is very easy to claim large percentage increases from very low
numbers. Perhaps the Mounties searched through all of the Dutch data to find the most
frightening sounding numbers, but the fact remains that the Dutch teen cannabis use rate
is far below that in DEAland, and the UK.)

See

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/final_report_of_dutch_national_d.htm”>Final
Report Of Dutch National Drug Use Survey Will Require New Lies From The Drug Czar:
Their Lifetime Cannabis Use Half of DEAland’s; Two-Thirds That of UK

“Claim:

Excerpt — Coffee houses in Amsterdam are a model for a controlled
successful environment in which young Europeans can enjoy marijuana.

“Fact:

– Excerpt — Amsterdam is now one of Europe’s street crime capitals and a
haven for addicts. There is a rise in hard-core addicts attributable to a rise in supply,
causing a drop in prices of as much as 75%. Organized crime has moved into the
“coffee house” business and other illegal drugs are covertly made available to
its patrons.

(MarijuanaNews note: If it were true that “Amsterdam is now one of
Europe’s street crime capitals and a haven for addicts,” it still would not tell us
anything about the impact of tolerating marijuana sales.
See

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/did_the_legalization_of_drugs_in.htm”>Didn’t
the legalization of drugs in the Netherlands lead to a sharp increase in addiction and
violent crime?

In fact, the Dutch police do not tolerate the sale of hard drugs in
coffee-shops and there is no evidence that many of them are controlled by “organized
crime.” There are associations of coffee-shop owners – I know many of them
personally, and they are good people — and there is no secret about who they are.

If the Mounties don’t know that Holland has a much lower rate of hard drug addiction
than most EU countries, and DEAland, then they are incompetent and if they do know that,
then they are unconscionable liars.

Either way the Canadian taxpayers are being defrauded. This site is rich vein
of reefer madness. Check it out.)

See

HREF=”file:///C:/Program%20Files/Microsoft%20FrontPage/temp/a_culture_is_not_healthy_when_it.htm”>”A
culture is not healthy when it is built upon a foundation of lies
and when it then preserves itself by systematically punishing the expression of truths
that all can see but are afraid to acknowledge.”

Another excerpts from www.deal.org :

“Grinspoon and Bakalar’s (1993) who are notorious in
the pro-marijuana stand movement, completed an overview of marijuana’s therapeutic
effects in their book, Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine. Historical evidence of
pain relieving effects for various forms of chronic pain, dysmenorrhoea, neuralgia, and a
small number of case histories of its use in chronic pain, dysmenorrhoea, labour pain, and
migraine.”

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