Canada renews plan to decriminalise pot possession
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OTTAWA: The Canadian government signalled its intention on Monday to re-introduce legislation to decriminalise the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
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Bumper cannabis crops  -  and tighter border controls  -  are creating a looming internal drug problem for the country
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A top American clinical researcher in the field of drug addiction warned Tuesday that decriminalizing marijuana could lead to increased abuse of the drug.
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The Canadian Medical Association wants the federal government to stop Ontario from imposing a new deal. TORONTO -- The Canadian Medical Association is urging the federal government to stop Ontario from imposing
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The Canadian Addiction Survey reports that 14 per cent of respondents used cannabis in the last year, up from 7.4 per cent in 1994.
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VANCOUVER, B.C. - The hot new Christmas gift in Canada this year is a board game that lets players run their own "B.C. Bud" marijuana farm.  Creators of "The Grow-Op Game" say the $39.95 "educational board game" highlights the perils of the marijuana business and cautions would-be growers.
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Some people claim the plant called Cannabis sativa, also sometimes called Cannabis indica, &quot;marijuana&quot; or just &quot;pot,&quot; has medicinal value.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canadian cigarettes will be designed to go out when left untended under new regulations proposed by Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced a new plan to curb the use of toxic chemicals in Canada.  The plan covers compounds that were recently reviewed for their toxicity levels.
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The province&#39;s crackdown on smoking will be launched tonight with a series of concerts across Ontario. Health Minister George Smitherman&#39;s first step is an ad campaign aimed at young people to get them to stop smoking and to convince them not to start.
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SANTA FE, N.M. -- Gov. Bill Richardson ordered the state Health Department on Friday to resume planning of a medical marijuana program despite the agency's worries about possible federal prosecution.
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The Centre is to promulgate an ordinance to repeal the contentious Prevention of Terrorism Act 2002 (Pota) along with another ordinance making changes in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967.
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Federal agents trailed Sparky Rose as he drove a Porsche Carrera convertible to his medical marijuana clinic. Under California law, clinics are supposed to dispense marijuana just to seriously ill people and clinic owners are to get only "reasonable compensation." But to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the sports car suggested that Rose might be pocketing big money from his purportedly nonprofit clinic, New Remedies Cooperative.
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Canadian Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh on Tuesday said that national authorities would continue a &quot;crackdown&quot; against online pharmacies that sell prescription drugs to US residents, but provincial officials appeared &quot;to adopt a softer line&quot; with the
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A FORMER heroin dealer who tended a huge cannabis farm was jailed for four years and eight months yesterday.  The High Court in Glasgow heard that Joseph Kerr, 50, was looking after nearly 1000 cannabis plants in a farm in Bishopton, Renfrewshire.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Impatient pot-heads, high enough to think they can force the legalization of marijuana, are ruining a relaxed relationship with police by brazenly buying and selling weed in a downtown cafe, says one legalization activist.
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OTTAWA -- The number of young Canadians smoking pot and injecting drugs has doubled over the last decade, according to a groundbreaking national study.