NDP Against the Drug War
CBC News
Government House Leader Jay Hill says the government's main legislative priorities are the next budget and economic issues. 
Canadian activist and legalization advocate Marc Emery needs your help! He is facing extradition to the United States for sale of cannabis seeds to American customers, even though he conducted all of his political activities while remaining in Canada. Call Minister of Justice Rob Nicholson to tell him not to extradite Marc Emery and allow him to either go free or serve his time in Canada.
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By Gloria Galloway and Ddaniel Leblan, Globe and Mail
By Helen Branswell Medical Reporter (CP)EndProhibition
WELCOME TO END PROHIBITION: NDP AGAINST THE DRUG WAR
We are members and friends of Canada's New Democratic Party who support replacing the failed "war on drugs" with a non-punitive system based upon accurate education, reduction of harm, regulated access and responsible use.Our group has almost 1000 members across Canada, working within the NDP to promote and implement policies such as taxed and regulated marijuana, increased access to medicinal marijuana products, creation of more supervised injection sites, and treating the use of psychoactive substances primarily as a health issue and not a criminal one.
Since our founding in 2005, End Prohibition has been in attendance at 16 NDP conventions in eight provinces, and helped to pass ten resolutions on marijuana and drug policy reform. We encourage you to join our group, join the NDP, and get involved in helping to legalize marijuana and end Canada's failed war on drugs.
RCMP reform still falls short
Toronto Star (TheStar.com)
Rebuilding public trust in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police won't be an easy matter. The Mounties' proud image took a beating following the deaths of Robert Dziekanski and Ian Bush while in custody. And the force faced withering criticism for bungling the Air India case, putting Maher Arar's life in jeopardy, feuding with the security services, punishing whistle-blowers, and misusing stun guns.
Against that background, Commissioner William Elliott's announcement Thursday that the Mounties plan to get out of the controversial business of investigating themselves is a welcome step forward, albeit a belated one.
Letter from NDP MP Libby Davies to Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq Re: MMAR
February 4, 2010
Hon. Leona Aglukkaq
An EndProhibition Personal Account: Robert Ling
The following is a personal account from one of our End Prohibition members in Ontario. He is one of thousands of Canadians who suffer from a malady that can be alleviated by the use of cannabis (marijuana). Although 4000 people in Canada are exempted from criminal sanctions for their choice in medication, many tens of thousands more have been unable to access this respite from the drug war.
In this account Robert relates his experiences with his illness, his medicinal use of cannabis, and the bureaucratic labyrinth of the Canadian Medical Marijuana Access Regulations (MMAR). He is one of many thousands of Canadians who use cannabis safely and should not fear criminal penalty for this personal health decision.
B.C. reaches out to most vulnerable HIV patients with $48-million program
VANCOUVER -- The B.C. government announced a $48-million pilot project Thursday to find and treat sex trade workers and injection drug users who are undiagnosed or untreated for HIV in Prince George and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
The four-year program, called Seek and Treat, was hailed as the first of its kind in Canada and is believed to be the first internationally.
"Seek and Treat promises to decrease HIV and AIDS-related suffering and further prevent the spread of HIV," Health Minister Kevin Falcon told a news conference.
Tainted cocaine linked to illnesses in Winnipeg
CBC NewsThe Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has issued a warning after two adults were hospitalized with an illness likely caused by cocaine laced with a veterinary drug.
The patients were suffering from neutropenia, also known as agranulocytosis, a serious illness that impacts immune systems, leaving them unable to fight off infections, the WRHA stated in a press release.
In severe cases, if left untreated, the disease can be fatal. It is believed both patients, known cocaine users, became ill as a result of using cocaine laced with levamisole.
Levamisole is a drug used by veterinarians to rid animals of internal parasites, but is not used in humans. No one knows why it might have been added to the cocaine, the WRHA stated.
Brian Hutchinson: Is Vancouver ready for its Olympic-sized close-up?
By Brian Hutchinson in Vancouver, National Post Final touches of plaster and paint are being applied. Volunteers wearing Games-approved smiles have hit the streets; police officers are at the barricades, waiting. Almost a decade in the making,
Vancouver's multi-billion-dollar party is one week from launch. Is this city ready for its close-up?
RCMP to stop investigating itself: commissioner
Janice Tibbetts, Canwest News Service OTTAWA -- The RCMP will no longer allow Mounties to investigate themselves in cases involving serious injury or death of suspects, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said on Thursday.
The Mounties will refer cases to outside police forces, or provincial or federal review agencies, Mr. Elliott told a news conference at RCMP headquarters.
"The RCMP must strive to be as open and transparent as possible and fully accountable for its actions," Mr. Elliott said.
Statement by Jack Layton, delivered to the media today (Friday, February 5)
Good afternoon. Thank you all for coming.As some of you may know, I hurt my back last week. Everyone who leads an active lifestyle knows what it's like to pull a muscle at the gym - it can be pretty painful.
My back is better now, but today I want to let you know about an unrelated health matter.
This year, more than 25,000 Canadian men will be diagnosed with treatable prostate cancer and I have recently learned that I’m one of them.
It’s the same kind of prostate cancer that my father was diagnosed with 17 years ago.
He, like the overwhelming majority of Canadian men with prostate cancer, fought it and won.
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Nunavut man facing pot charges launches Charter case over medical marijuana club
By Bob Weber, Canadian PressIQALUIT, Nunavut — He calls himself a healer, not a dealer.
And despite spending last weekend in jail on drug charges, Ed DeVries is not about to shut what is almost certainly the most northerly - and perhaps the most popular - medical marijuana club in Canada.
"I couldn't stop this if I wanted to," says DeVries, a 52-year-old grandfather of four now facing four drug-related charges in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
He may be right.
The Qikiqtani Compassion Club, he says, distributes marijuana to 543 members, almost all of them in Iqaluit.
GMM 2010
Join End Prohibition in participating in your local Global Marijuana March on Saturday, May 1. Across the globe, people will be marching to raise awareness about the necessity of ending prohibition now!
Date:
Saturday, May 1, 2010 - 12:00 - 16:30
Location
Your City
http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Global_Marijuana_March_2010
