‘Impossible’: Senior police officials tell MPs they won’t be ready for legal cannabis – Politics – CBC News

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 over the market.

Senior Canadian police officials tell MPs studying the government’s marijuana legalization legislation that police won’t be ready to enforce new laws by next summer and they ask the government for more time.

Source: ‘Impossible’: Senior police officials tell MPs they won’t be ready for legal cannabis – Politics – CBC News

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

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 justice and public safety.”

Source: Toronto Star’s View: The Trudeau government should not delay on sentencing reforms

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 homegrown stuff better, experts say.

Source: Organized crime’s interest in the illegal pot business is going up in smoke | Toronto Star

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 place in a criminal trial,”

Justice Anne Molloy, who presided over the case, said in her ruling that the rising movement to ‘believe the victim’ has no place in the courts

Source: ‘Believe the victim’ has no place in courts, judge says in sexual assault ruling