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Canada:
Vancouver
Tells
Ottawa
to
Legalize
It
6/10/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/390/vancouver.shtml
A city of Vancouver report
calls for the full-blown legalization of marijuana in Canada, and Vancouver
Mayor Larry Campbell went on record Wednesday endorsing the report and
its conclusions. The report is not yet official city policy -- it
must be approved by the city council June 14 and then undergo a period
of public discussion -- but Campbell's endorsement is a clear sign of where
the process is headed.
The report, Preventing
Harm From Psychoactive Substances, is a comprehensive effort to address
drug- and drug prohibition-related harms in the Western Canadian city known
for its lax attitudes toward marijuana and its cutting edge approach to
hard drugs. The call to legalize marijuana is but one of the dozens
of recommendations in the 70-page document.
No more halfway measures,
said Mayor Campbell. "I think the decriminalization doesn't do anybody
any good," he told the Vancouver Sun. "It sends that message that
it's okay, but it's a crime to obtain it."
Instead, said Campbell, Canada
should legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana. Cannabis is big business
in Canada, with published estimates of the annual profits from pot running
between US $4 and $6 billion. Last year, the conservative Fraser
Institute released a report saying legalization could yield $1.5 billion
a year in tax revenues. A national poll last November found that
57% of Canadians favored legalization.
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Issue #390
-- 6/10/05
Editorial:
Learn
to
See
Hope
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Feature:
Raich
Case
Ruling
--
Feds
Can
Enforce
Marijuana
Laws
Against
Patients,
but
State
Laws
Remain
in
Effect
|
DRCNet
Interview:
Supreme
Court
Plaintiff
Angel
McLary
Raich
|
Feature:
In
the
Wake
of
Raich
--
Officials
in
Three
Medical
Marijuana
States
Overreact
|
Feature:
Raich
Ramifications
--
The
Good,
the
Bad,
and
the
Ugly
|
Medical
Marijuana:
One
Day
After
Raich,
Rhode
Island
Senate
Passes
Medical
Marijuana
Bill
|
Weekly:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Marijuana:
Retailers
Say
Legalize
It
in
Online
Poll
|
Europe:
Dutch
Medical
Marijuana
Program
Ailing
in
Face
of
Widespread
Availability
for
All
|
Canada:
Vancouver
Tells
Ottawa
to
Legalize
It
|
Asia:
Indonesian
Protestors
Call
for
Corby's
Execution
While
Australians
Call
for
Bali
Boycott
|
Asia:
In
Major
Shift,
China
to
Promote
Needle
Exchange
|
Media
Scan:
Pain
Man,
Connecticut
Cocaine
Sentencing,
Uncontrolled
Substances
|
Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
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Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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