Liberals unveil pot bill for second time
01-November-2004, Canada, CBC News
OTTAWA - Paul Martin's Liberals reintroduced a controversial bill Monday that would decriminalize marijuana possession and replace criminal charges with fines for anyone caught with up to 15 grams of the drug.
The new possession bill comes with ...
Marijuana Arrests at All-Time High, Far Exceed ...
29-October-2004, United States, DRC Net
The FBI reported Saturday that the number of arrests for violations of the marijuana laws hit an all-time high of 755,186 in 2003. Despite a decade of marijuana law reforms and protestations by police chiefs across the land that marijuana is not a ...
Prince of Pot high on India
23-October-2004, Canada, HindustanTimes.com
Imagine a Ganja Party of India, or a Bhang Magazine or a Charas-TV. Canada has all these.
The Marijuana Party of Canada, Cannabis Culture Magazine and Pot-TV. And the man who spawned all this says India was a spark of inspiration for him.
In ...
US billionaire who escaped NZ drugs conviction ...
18-October-2004, New Zealand, New Zealand News
The Ohio billionaire who escaped a drugs conviction in New Zealand has poured millions into John Kerry's presidential election campaign.
Peter Lewis, also a multimillion-dollar backer of attempts to liberalise America's marijuana laws, spent ...
Deputy drug czar opposes legalizing marijuana
07-October-2004, United States, Billings Gazette
By CLAIR JOHNSON
Of The Gazette Staff
Scott Burns, a top federal official in the war on drugs, visited Montana this week intending to discuss methamphetamine. But Burns found himself talking instead mostly about marijuana, as Montanans prepare ...
Outcry as Defence denies soft drugs stance
02-October-2004, Australia, The Sunday Mail
MILITARY personnel who admit they have drug problems are being referred at government expense to civilian treatment programs, some of which advise them on safer drug use such as eating hash cookies instead of smoking "joints".
In a deviation from ...
Addiction behind the burka: how Afghan women use ...
30-September-2004, Afghanistan, The Independent
Halima first smoked opium to dull the nightmares after her husband's violent death. He was shot at a checkpoint in front of her as they tried to flee fighting in Kabul, leaving her a widow at the age of 27 with three young children and a joyless ...
An end to marijuana prohibition
30-September-2004, United States, The Anchorage Press
Never before have so many Americans supported decriminalizing and even legalizing marijuana. Seventy-two percent say that for simple marijuana possession, people should not be incarcerated but fined: the generally accepted definition of ...
Campos: Dishonesty in the drug war
14-September-2004, United States, Rocky Mountain News
TORONTO - The University of Toronto has just played host to an important conference, entitled "The Politics of Obesity," at which scholars from various academic disciplines examined the claim that North America is facing a health crisis because of ...
The Maple Leaf Forever
10-September-2004, United Kingdom, The Austinn Chronicle
In recent weeks, federal drug warrior John Walters has turned his attention to the latest and apparently, in his esteemed opinion, greatest threat: Canadian marijuana. Walters, head of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy – the ...
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