Pot growing boom in Britain

Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at 9:46 | Posted in crime, great britain | 2 Comments
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Diane Abbott writes in a column in the Jamaica Observer that commercial cannabis production in Britain has rapidly increased. The domestic pot industry is believed to fill in a supply gap caused by a cannabis eradication programme in Morocco. Some police sources suggest that Britain may even have become a net exporter of cannabis.

The pot business in Britain is largely controlled by Vietnamese immigrants. A connection with illegal immigration is believed to exist. Nobody knows exactly why the Vietnamese managed to gain control over the business.

Busting the pot factories is a low police priority because it consumes a lot of their resource badly needed to combat more serious crime. Given that smoking cannabis is less damaging than drinking alcohol, one might ask what point there is to prohibit pot. A legalizing would be a serious blow for organized crime, not to mention the tax revenue it would bring in.

Toronto judge: unconstitutional to charge for pot possession

Monday, July 16, 2007 at 12:20 | Posted in Canada, Legal | Leave a comment
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As CBC reports, a judge in Toronto has ruled that Canada’s pot possession laws are unconstitutional. A Toronto resident with no medical issues was charged for possession of 3,5 grams of marijuana. Health Canada regulations of 2001 should grant access to marijuana to people with grave decease.

The CBC writes:

In court, the man argued that the federal government only made it policy to provide marijuana to those who need it, but never made it an actual law. Because of that, he argued, all possession laws, whether medicinal or not, should be quashed.

The judge agreed and dismissed the charges.

“The government told the public not to worry about access to marijuana,” said Judge Howard Borenstein. “They have a policy but not law.… In my view that is unconstitutional.”

The ruling is more than likely to be appealed by the prosecutors. They have two weeks to file the appeal.

Looks like stoned, acts like stoned

Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 10:51 | Posted in Canada, Politics | Leave a comment
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I wrote yesterday about the exceptionally high usage of marijuana and other cannabis products in Canada. While not having a clue of whether or not PM Stephen Harper is in the habbit, I could not help putting some of his odd statements into that context.

Now I hear that Harper is planning to do something really weird. He is going to actually appoint an elected senator to the upper house of the Canadian parliament (CBC):

Alberta has been holding senatorial elections since 1989, but the federal government is under no obligation to honour the province’s selection.

As they say, looks like stoned and acts like stoned…

Stoned in Canada

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at 11:18 | Posted in Canada | 2 Comments
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The CBC reports that Canadians consume four times the World average of marijuana, making Canada number one among the industrialized countries and fith in the World. CBC quotes a fresh UN report:

The 2007 World Drug Report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime says that 16.8 per cent of Canadians aged 15 to 64 smoked marijuana or used another cannabis product in 2006. The world average is 3.8 per cent.

In the report, Canada ranks fifth in the world for marijuana use, behind Ghana at 21.5 per cent, Zambia, 17.7 per cent, and Papua New Guinea and Micronesia with 29 per cent each.

I have been wondering about some statements of Stephen Harper lately. Stoned in Canada? I have no evidence either way.

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