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SFU professor tackles pot policy 'stalemate'

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 8:00am
By. CTVBC

Benedikt Fischer, a health sciences professor at Simon Fraser University, has just co-authored a new book evaluating current marijuana prohibition systems -- and considering alternatives that might actually work.

Last February, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced his government's new anti-drug strategy. It amounted to a number of stricter penalties, including mandatory jail sentences for conducting large-scale grow-ops and an increase in maximum prison terms from seven to 14 years.

The message was a loud and clear reinforcement of the status-quo: Prohibition works.

Fischer disagrees.

Libby rates Conservative's youth anti-drug strategy "boring and bureaucratic"

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 8:02pm
Embassy
 
Questions are being raised after Health Canada's new anti-drug website for youth included links to a similar campaign being run in the US. Health Canada says it had no choice but to link to several American sources on its new youth anti-drug website as no applicable Canadian sources existed. However, others see it as the government moving Canadian policy more in line with its southern neighbour....Libby Davies called the Health Canada website "very disappointing" and suggested that the department has been influenced by the government's "ideology about drug use."

Government links to US anti-drug campaign

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 4:08pm
New Health Canada website leads to American equivalents
By Carl Meyer, Embassy
 
Questions are being raised after Health Canada's new anti-drug website for youth included links to a similar campaign being run in the US. Health Canada says it had no choice but to link to several American sources on its new youth anti-drug website as no applicable Canadian sources existed. However, others see it as the government moving Canadian policy more in line with its southern neighbour.

 

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