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Newsbrief:
Canadian
Cops
Call
for
National
Drug
Strategy,
Oppose
Legalization
8/30/02
The Canadian Association
of Police Boards, which represents municipal police forces across the country,
passed a resolution last Saturday denouncing the legalization of illicit
drugs, including marijuana, and calling for the federal government to implement
a national drug strategy. The resolution also has the support of
the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and the Canadian Police Association,
Police Boards president Herb Kreling told an Ottawa news conference announcing
the stand.
The assembled officers took
time off from a convention barbeque and golf tournament to sit through
a Saturday workshop where leaders from the three law enforcement groups
presented a pre-packaged resolution for members to ratify. They did
as expected.
"This resolution, which has
been endorsed by all three of the country's national policing advocates
-- the boards, the officers, and the chiefs -- we believe will send a clear
message to our nation's leaders," said Kreling.
But while the police board
resolution calls for tougher prison sentences and financial penalties for
pot growers and sellers, it also calls for a national task force to explore
the regulation or legal status of the use, possession and distribution
of marijuana. The police seem to suggest that even some sort of decriminalization,
as obnoxious as they may find it, may be better than the twilight zone
that is current Canadian marijuana policy.
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Issue #252, 8/30/02
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