NOT READY FOR MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION? – Quebec cannabis: Police say they’re not prepared to test drivers for marijuana

NOT READY FOR MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION? – Years ago the criminal code provided for “drug recognition experts” and a methodology for determining impairment by a drug. (Not that it works well because different drugs affect different people differently.) It’s their own fault if they haven’t trained their officers to be DREs yet. It seems the height of policymaking to adopt a zero tolerance for something you can’t prove.

A federation of police unions said five Quebec police forces have no one trained to test for drug use

Source: Quebec cannabis: Police say they’re not prepared to test drivers for marijuana

EX-COPS INVESTING IN MARIJUANA INDUSTRY – As Canada prepares for legal pot, ex-cops get into the business

EX-COPS INVESTING IN MARIJUANA INDUSTRY – It doesn’t seem right to me that the high ranking police officers who have spent their career giving us criminal records and putting us in jail are now going to personally profit from it. “the hypocrisy stinks to high heaven.”

A former Canadian police chief and several colleagues who fought against making marijuana use legal have switched sides and embraced the looming legalization of cannabis with a leap into business.

Source: As Canada prepares for legal pot, ex-cops get into the business

DRUG SQUAD ASSIGNMENTS ARE DANGEROUS – Death of drug squad officer by fentanyl overdose confounds police | Toronto Star

DRUG SQUAD ASSIGNMENTS ARE DANGEROUS – Our past experience has shown that this is not an isolated incident of drug abuse by drug squad officers. We’re aware that such assignments must be strictly limited and closely supervised. Don’t conflate this with the issue of front-line officers carrying naloxone.

Crown and police reviewing cases that Const. Michael Thompson worked on before his death in April.

Source: Death of drug squad officer by fentanyl overdose confounds police | Toronto Star

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC ACT OR CRIMINAL CODE? – Can a driver killing a pedestrian ever be put down to a ‘momentary lapse’ in concentration? | Toronto Star

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC ACT OR CRIMINAL CODE? – With an innocent death, the question becomes one of moral culpability and it’s often a very difficult question to answer. Was the conduct a “momentary lapse” or a “marked departure” from what a reasonable person would do? In our process, the police officer forms an opinion, the Crown Attorney forms an opinion and ultimately a Judge and/or Jury decides.

Kristy Hodgson, 31, and her dog Betty died in 2015 after Gideon Fekre, then 18, drove his Honda into them. Fekre is on trial, charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death.

Source: Can a driver killing a pedestrian ever be put down to a ‘momentary lapse’ in concentration? | Toronto Star

SHOULD I TELL THE TRUTH? – Do not tell U.S. border guards that you’ve smoked pot, despite what some say: lawyer

SHOULD I TELL THE TRUTH? – Look, as a lawyer, just as anyone in an official capacity, the only advice I can give you is, tell the truth. There’s a lot of jibber-jabber here but I think you get the idea. Be informed.

“If you’re asked if you smoked marijuana, that is not a question that you are obliged to answer at a U.S. port of entry.”

Source: Do not tell U.S. border guards that you’ve smoked pot, despite what some say: lawyer

ENSURING MARIJUANA IS A HOMEGROWN INDUSTRY -Travellers to Canada will be routinely asked if carrying pot at the border

ENSURING MARIJUANA IS A HOMEGROWN INDUSTRY – Don’t make the mistake of crossing the border with weed. That remains a criminal offence.

Travellers to Canada will be routinely asked whether they are bringing marijuana into the country as Ottawa moves to legalize recreational pot use.

Source: Travellers to Canada will be routinely asked if carrying pot at the border