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Canada:
Methamphetamine
Now
Schedule
I,
Cooks
Now
Face
Up
to
Life
in
Prison
8/12/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/399/canadameth.shtml
The Canadian government announced
Thursday that it had moved methamphetamine to Schedule I of the Controlled
Drugs and Substances Act, signaling a significantly tougher stance against
the stimulant making its way east from British Columbia and the prairie
provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. The change puts
meth on the same level as heroin and cocaine when it comes to sentencing.
"The maximum penalty for
production and distribution of methamphetamine has increased from 10 years
to life in prison," said three federal ministers in a news release announcing
the change. They cited the "significant health, social and economic
harms" caused by abuse of the drug.
The move met with a positive
response from Western province premiers. Saskatchewan Premier Lorne
Calvert welcomed the news as he waved a copy of last week's Newsweek cover
story on "America's Most Dangerous Drug." "I don't ever want to see
that kind of headline on the cover of Macleans," he told the CBC, referring
to the popular Canadian newsweekly.
BC Premier Gordon Campbell
called the drug "a scourge" and congratulated the federal government for
acting. Meth is "going to touch everyone in Canada if we don't act
together on it."
At least one BC addiction
expert wasn't so sure the move was a good idea. "What we know about
human beings is that they've always used psychoactive drugs in one form
or another," Sherrie Mumford told the CBC. "They attempted to take
down huge quantities of heroin in the past, for example, and they thought
that this would decrease the drug use. Well, it has put a dent in
the heroin use, but we saw huge increases in drug use like cocaine."
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