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Topic: Federal medical pot appeal up in smoke.
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SwimmingLee
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posted 30 October 2008 12:36 PM
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Originally posted by It's Me D:
Our laws are pretty shitty on the whole; we just have more pot and more pot smokers 
No Way ! This isn't exactly a contest I'd want to win. But - California alone might have as many imbibers as BC. Then there's Alaska (nobody asked Sarah Palin about Alaska's marijuana laws. Oh well.) and 48 other states.
From: LASIK-FLap.com ~ Health Warning about LASIK Eye Surgery | Registered: Dec 2007
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Noise
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posted 30 October 2008 02:03 PM
SwimmingLee - Have you seen the movie 'Super High Me'? It's basically some guy in California taking the 'supersize me' challenge and apply it to being stoned for 30 days straight. The hardest part was going without being stoned for 30 days to set a baseline  They go over alot of the state vs federal laws in regards to pot... I think it was 11 states had laws that directly conflicted with Federal law. So Federal agents (read as DEA mostly) would bust locations that were operating completely within the law by state laws. I'm not sure if the same disconnect can exist within Canada between federal and provincial law. Could the mounties bust someone for possessing something the local police consider legal? As a side note... I fell over laughing during the super high me movie when someone mentions all the BC bud coming in from Columbia. Columbia... British Columbia... whats the difference? [ 30 October 2008: Message edited by: Noise ]
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Dana Larsen
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posted 31 October 2008 11:51 AM
The pot laws in Canada are the same across the whole country.But the police priorities and the length of sentence will vary a lot between regions and provinces. The federal government has been fighting medical marijuana from the beginning. The only reason we have a federal medical marijuana program is that the Supreme Court said if the government doesn't allow for medical marijuana use, then the whole prohibition of marijuana would be struck down. The government has been chastised repeatedly by the courts for the poor way the med-pot program is being run. Indeed marijuana was legal in Canada for a while in 2003. The government med-pot program had so many problems that the courts ruled that marijuana was now legal across Canada. That lasted for a few months until the Supreme Court changed the med-pot laws to make them constitutional, allowing the ban on general marijuana use to be put back in place. There is currently some lower court decisions which have been saying that the med-pot program is still flawed, and therefore marijuana is legal again, but these decisions are not from higher courts and so they are not binding, yet. This current court decision linked to above is about growing for registered medical patients. The rule used to be that only one person could grow for only one patient. Now the courts have said that one person can be allowed to grow for multiple registered patients.
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QatzelOk
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posted 01 November 2008 11:37 AM
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imbibers
 It's nice to see medical marijuana appearing in more and more texts. The idea that Canada's marijuana crops will get the same kind of funding that NASA does in the states is very encouraging. **imbibes a pinner**
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djelimon
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posted 02 November 2008 07:34 PM
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Our laws are pretty shitty on the whole; we just have more pot and more pot smokers
Per capita, absolutely
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Canadians use marijuana at four times the world average, making Canada the leader of the industrialized world in cannabis consumption, a recent United Nations report found.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.
Source : (CBC, 2007) Canada tokes at 4 times world average: UN [ 02 November 2008: Message edited by: djelimon ] [ 02 November 2008: Message edited by: djelimon ]
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