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Newshawks: Bill C-10 Goes To Third Reading!
Newshawk Guardian 99 sent us the latest of C-PAC regarding Bill C-10 (formerly Bill C-38), the bogus Canadian Decrim Bill, that brings fines for casual users and increased penalties for growers and distributors, as it jumps through yet more hoops and comes closer to being established as Canadian Law. |
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Newshawks: Drug-related crime rate at 20-year high in 2002
Canada Hits All Time Record For Pot Possession Busts!
Marijuana possession has been pushing up the drug-related crime rate, which hit a 20-year-high in 2002, according to Statistics Canada. "The police-reported drug crime rate has risen an estimated 42 per cent since the early 1990s and now stands at a 20-year high," Statistics Canada reported. It said that 75 per cent of drug-related incidents in 2002 involved cannabis offences. Of that number, about 72 per cent were possession offences, 22 per cent were for trafficking and the remainder were for offences involving importation and production.
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Newshawks: Britain To Give School Kids Random Drug Tests
The BBC. Tony Blair has turned jolly old England into the lap-dog of sleazy Old Uncle Scam, by bringing the American style War on Drugs and school piss tests to Britain. "The idea has been successfully pioneered by President Bush in American schools"
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Newshawks: Big Busts and Comedy
February 16
Police in the "Drug Businness" (Freudian slip?)& the Technology behind it.
Alice Cooper on alcoholism and Drugs , George W., Clinton and Presidential Candidate John Kerry meet in a bar on S.N.L.
Edmonton - BC Warehouse Busts, & 'Saturday Night Stoner Dream Date'.
Thanks to Flash and Atom for the quick reflexes.New logo from TreeFish in Japan. |
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Newshawks: BBC - Legalising cannabis 'will save money'
A variety of cannabis related stories from England including a debate about cannabis decrimilization from Britian and another story that explains plans to relax the cannabis laws could save police £38m a year and vastly improve police and community relations.
The study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation backs proposals by Home Secretary David Blunkett to downgrade cannabis to a Class C drug. The study - called Times They Are A-Changing - also revealed huge variations across the country in the way offenders are dealt with for possession of cannabis. |
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