SERIOUSLY? Comments like the industry is run by criminals (duh) and police talking about “how are we going to find out if a person has more than 4 plants in his residence, makes it sound like legalization will bring more police oppression through dynamic entries and more drug charges as the government tries to take …
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LEGALIZATION DOES NOT REQUIRE A STATE-OWNED MONOPOLY – The “thriving underground market” is established, entrenched and doing fine, thank you. We don’t need no MCBO.
If anything over the next few years, the legalized sale of marijuana stands to fatten the golden goose that is the black market rather than kill it. Source: Pot black market wider and deeper than government’s half-hearted plans: Hébert | Toronto Star
GRABHER – We have a saying that “bad cases make bad law”. A seemingly unjustifiable administrative decision brings a constitutional challenge to the regulatory scheme.
HALIFAX: Lorne Grabher, whose personalized GRABHER licence plate was deemed “socially unacceptable” by the Nova Scotia Registrar of Motor Vehicles, will be in court on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 … Source: Lorne Grabher in Court Wednesday September 6: GRABHER licence plate challenge to Motor Vehicle Act Regulations
THE WAR ON DRUGS – How Massive Busts Could Create More Harm for People Who Use Drugs
It’s all wrong. It’s backward. We need to deal with the demand side. This proudly violent war on the supply side has unconsidered consequences. With the biggest drug bust in Ontario history—$250-million—the province’s cocaine supply may have just gotten more dangerous. Source: How Massive Busts Could Create More Harm for People Who Use Drugs
THE WAR ON DRUGS – “It’s been obvious for 40 years.” Just think of all the unnecessary suffering that could have been prevented for all those years but wasn’t because it was illegal … for some reason.
“It’s been obvious for 40 years.” Source: Ecstasy Was Just Labelled a ‘Breakthrough Therapy’ For PTSD by The FDA
HARPER’S CONTINUING TOUGH ON CRIME LEGACY
“These policies continue to bring more people than ever in conflict with the law and make it more difficult for those caught up in the system to get out. They have clogged our prisons, drained the public coffers, unnecessarily criminalized minor offenders and contributed to a national crisis of court delays that profoundly undermines both …
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HAVE YOU SENT YOUR DNA TO ANCESTRY.COM? Do you know what they can do with it?
A word to the wise: Read the complete terms of service. Source: Ancestry.com takes DNA ownership rights from customers and their relatives
MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES INCREASE INJUSTICE. PERIOD.
News item: The federal Justice Department has hired a pollster to sound out Canadians on their appetite for criminal sentencing reform – a political “testing of the waters,” as it were. Source: Globe editorial: You don’t need a poll to know mandatory minimum sentences are bad
MARIJUANA AND ORGANIZED CRIME – Organized crime’s interest in the illegal pot business is going up in smoke
It seems they’re being forced out of the market as it becomes, during this legal hiatus, occupied by a myriad of other suppliers. The coming government scheme will have to compete with an established market when they finally jump in. There wasn’t much need to smuggle pot into the country when Canadian cannabis connoisseurs liked …
THE JUDICIAL BENCH STANDS STRONG – ‘Believe the victim’ has no place in courts
Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy said she could not rely on the complainant’s testimony, which she found inconsistent, implausible at times and contradicted by – on the key issue of her capacity to consent – video recordings and a toxicologist. “Although the slogan ‘Believe the victim’ has become popularized of late, it has no …
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