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CN NF: Man Sentenced On Charges Of Growing Marijuana, Child
The Telegram, 19 Nov 2008 - A Happy Valley-Goose Bay man was sentenced Tuesday to a 14-month conditional sentence in a marijuana-growing case that sparked the first-ever charge laid for child endangerment under the Child Youth and Family Services Act in relation to marijuana grows. Corey Saunders, 34, appeared in provincial court in Happy Valley-Goose Bay Tuesday and pleaded guilty to four charges resulting from a RCMP investigation into a marijuana grow operation in the community in November 2007.
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CN QU: Edu: Addiction Versus Addictive-Type Behaviours
McGill Tribune, 18 Nov 2008 - The Difference Between Chemical And Mental Addiction Is Small This week, from November 16 to 23, is Alcoholism Awareness Week. But while alcoholism is a well known addiction, many others warrant the same attention. There is a support group for nearly every addiction possible, but the level of seriousness of addiction varies. A student with a morning coffee habit is not equivalent to a cocaine addict looking for a fix-in any discussion of addiction, it's important to distinguish between addiction and addictive-type behaviour.
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US: Web: Vancouver's Radical Approach to Drugs: Let Junkies Be
AlterNet, 18 Nov 2008 - On a chilly, overcast morning in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, a steady trickle of sallow-faced drug addicts shambles up to a storefront painted with flowers and the words "Welcome to Insite." One by one, they ring the doorbell and are buzzed into a tidy reception area staffed by smiling volunteers. The junkies come here almost around the clock, seven days a week. Some just grab a fistful of clean syringes from one of the buckets by the door and head out again. But about 600 times a day, others walk in with pocketfuls of heroin, cocaine or speed that they've scored out on the street; sign in; go to a clean, well-lit room lined with stainless steel booths; and, under the protective watch of two nurses, shoot their drugs into their veins.
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US MA: OPED: Pot Law Throws Kids Under the Bus
Marlborough Enterprise, 19 Nov 2008 - MARLBOROUGH - Dealing a blow to years of work and recent gains in youth drug prevention, Massachusetts has joined a growing, but still short, list of states to decriminalize marijuana possession. At least that is the intention of some 65 percent of voters checking "Yes" on a ballot initiative that makes possession of an ounce or less of marijuana a civil offense (punishable by a ticket) as opposed to a criminal one. And this on the same day that the same voters approved a ban on greyhound racing.
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US MI: Now That Vote Is In, How Will Medical Marijuana Program
Ann Arbor Business Review, 20 Nov 2008 - Now that a 63 percent majority of the Michigan voting public has given the green light to the green leaves of medical marijuana, the question is: how will the program work? Forget the misleading images of California-like "potshops" that were pictured on the website opposing the bill.
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US CA: State Haul This Year: 5 Million Pot Plants
San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Nov 2008 - State and federal drug enforcement officials say they have pulled more than 5 million marijuana plants from public and private land this year, a record amount. The state Department of Justice, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies announced Wednesday that they have seized 5.2 million marijuana plants. Most of those were on public land.
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US CA: CA Medical Marijuana Advocates Concerned About Obama Appointments
Capitol Weekly, 20 Nov 2008 - In this year's presidential election, medical marijuana advocates in California were pretty clear on which candidate they were rooting for. On multiple occasions, Democrat Barack Obama has pledged to end the federal raids that have bedeviled the state's dispensaries for years under the Bush administration. But some of their relief has turned into concern as the incoming president has begun to consider appointments to key posts. Obama will reportedly appoint two men who have been fierce critics of medical marijuana: Eric Holder, rumored to be Obama's pick for attorney general, and Donald Vereen as transitional co-chair of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
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CN QU: OPED: Dreams Up In Smoke
Montreal Gazette, 20 Nov 2008 - Activists Who Fought For Native Autonomy Now See A Corrupt And Violent Narco-Culture On Nov. 14, three people died at Akwesasne in a terrible car-van crash after a high-speed police chase with a suspected tobacco smuggler.
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US CA: Record 52 Million Pot Plants Seized In State
Sacramento Bee, 20 Nov 2008 - Top narcotics enforcers gathered Wednesday in Sacramento to announce this year's record seizure of marijuana plants from public and private lands and to decry the damage to California's natural resources caused by Mexican drug cartels' pot gardens. At a briefing hosted by the U.S. attorney's office, the drug cops said raids in 40 of the state's 58 counties yielded more than 5.2 million plants seized and destroyed. Nearly 70 percent of them were growing on state and federal land, the officers said.
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