The cities of San Francisco and Berkeley have come to the defense of cannabis dispensaries, and property owners who provide them with space, who have been threatened with asset forfeiture by the DEA.
Like a weed pushing up through a concrete sidewalk, the industrial hemp industry is inescapably taking root in Canada.
Documents obtained by Canadians for Safe Access director Philippe Lucas revealed how medicinal cannabis users are in arrears $554,225 for government-grown cannabis, leading one tabloid to remark, "Government dudes ... everybody knows you're supposed to get the money up front."
]]>In Vancouver, Canada, an expert advisory committee asked by the federal government to report on Insite, North America's only supervised injection center, came back last week finding none of the problems promised would occur by police and prohibitionist politicians. Instead, the supervised injection center saved lives, and the harms of drugs were reduced.
In Mexico, President Felipe Calderon's escalated drug war -- made-to-order in Washington D.C. -- is increasingly bloody, and even Washington Post readers must learn of it. This week Post readers get the official party line on the bloodbath in a backgrounder which explains it for the folks on the Potomac. While, yes, the there are perhaps some "accusations" of human rights abuses, such "accusations" must of course (according to the Post) be pitted against the wider "demand for security." And don't worry about human rights abuses, anyway, because few ever complain through proper channels. "The message is clear," says Gen. Jose Antonio Lopez Portillo, "There are very few complaints." See? The Mexican war against drugs is ticking away nicely.
It took a newspaper reporter only 26 minutes to buy heroin, and that at a main shopping street in the city of Hove in the U.K.. Last week, Brighton Kemptown MP Des Turner called for "fresh alternative thinking" about drugs. "The policy we have at the moment of criminalising drugs obviously isn't working... decriminalise drug use and supply people who are unfortunate enough to be drug addicts from our own pharmacies which we know to be safe."
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