surrey-series-tackles-drug-lies - 24 hours - mark haden

Thursday, February 26, 2015 | | 0 comments

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2015/02/23/surrey-series-tackles-drug-lies

FW: A RISING REVOLUTION_ DRUG POLICY REFORM AROUND THE GLOBE

Saturday, February 21, 2015 | | 0 comments

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CANADIAN STUDENTS FOR SENSIBLE DRUG POLICY

presents

 

A RISING REVOLUTION: DRUG POLICY REFORM AROUND THE GLOBE

 

Friday February 27 to Sunday March 1
University of Toronto

Speakers / Presenters include: 
    Dr. Carl Hart
    Mark & Jodie Emery
    Dana Larson
    Donald MacPherson
... and many more

For full information and to register - http://cssdp.org/?p=1264

THIS CONFERENCE IS NOT TO BE MISSED! 


 

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FW: Portugal Cut Addiction Rates in Half by Connecting Drug Users With Communities Instead of Jailing Them

Monday, February 16, 2015 | | 1 comments

Johann Hari: Everything We Know About the Drug War & Addiction is Wrong

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http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/4/johann_hari_everything_we_know_about

Here are 15 key things W5 came across while researching marijuana

Friday, February 13, 2015 | | 4 comments

Annie Burns-Pieper, W5 Associate Producer
Published Thursday, February 12, 2015 7:00AM EST

Colorado was the first American state to start selling legalized recreational marijuana, resulting in some quirky outcomes.

Here are 15 key things W5 came across while researching marijuana legalization in Colorado:

  1. In Colorado you can buy a wide range of marijuana-infused food and drinks including microwave popcorn, Baba ghanoush, peanut butter sandwiches and chai tea.
  2. When arriving to visit Denver, you can get a pot-friendly airport pick up. The service will collect you at the airport, bring you to a marijuana dispensary and then drop you off at your hotel.
  3. Once you have arrived in Denver you can stay at something called a “Bud and Breakfast.” You are served marijuana with your morning cup of coffee and later in the day there is a 4:20 happy hour which includes hors d’oeuvres plus multiple strains of cannabis.
  4. There are many marijuana-enhanced activities for locals and tourists alike. You can take high yoga, cooking and art classes. You can also get cannabis massage therapy.
  5. The budding marijuana business has led to people to specialize in marijuana-focused professions including real estate agents for marijuana properties and accountants focused on cannabis-related businesses.
  6. To make purchasing weed easier, a marijuana vending machine, ZaZZZ, has been introduced. However, the machine is only allowed to operate in a marijuana dispensary, for now.
  7. A U.S. pizza chain is looking to develop a line of marijuana-laced pizza sauces that can be sold in states where marijuana is legal.
  8. When weed sales became legal, a Colorado sushi chain released a sushi and marijuana parings menu including combos like Pakalolo Shrimp with Pakistani Kush and Honey Miso Salmon with Sour OG.
  9. One Internet provider is providing weed aficionados and pot businesses with 420 phone numbers.
  10. One company, based in Washington state where marijuana is also legal, is looking to make a fleet of marijuana food trucks. They sell things like peanut butter and jelly, pulled pork and grilled cheese sandwiches along with tomato soup -- all infused with THC. One truck visited Denver, Colo. for the Cannabis Cup festival this year.
  11. Marijuana retailers took advantage of the Black Friday craze with “Green Friday” sales held on the same day, offering weed consumers a discount on goods to get high.
  12. There is a burgeoning marijuana wedding industry, with some florists working marijuana buds into wedding bouquets and boutonnieres, or “bud-tonnieres” as they are calling them. Some couples are also offering marijuana bars at their celebrations.
  13. A wide range of marijuana industry training courses have cropped up. Students can take classes from places such as THC University, which offers online courses, or the Grow School located in Denver.
  14. Denver has banned the sale of marijuana related souvenirs at the airport, fearing this could taint the state’s image.
  15. Last Halloween, Denver police issued a PSA warning parents about marijuana-infused Halloween candy. However, in the end there were no recorded incidents of kids receiving cannabis tainted candies while trick-or-treating.


Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/15-bizarre-facts-w5-learned-researching-legalized-weed-in-colorado-1.2231478#ixzz3RdzPu8X2

 

FW: Breaking The Silence: Women & Risky Drinking EVENT

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 | | 1 comments

 

 

Richmond Addiction Services Society is proud to invite you to an exciting event in honor of International Women’s Day 2015:

 

 

We are asking that you RSVP by March 1st so we can ensure seating is available. Seating is limited!

 

604-270-9220 or email info@richmondaddictions.ca

 

Thanks! Spread the word, and hope to see you there!!

 

 

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Breaking

The

Silence

Women and Risky Drinking

 

Throughout the developed world, women are closing the gender gap on risky drinking. This is global, and troubling. Join us for a keynote presentation from award-winning Canadian journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of the best-selling Drink: The Intimate Relationship between Women and Alcohol.

 

*Free Event*

March 4, 2015

9am-11am, doors at 830.

 

UBC Boathouse

7277 River Road, Richmond, BC.

Free Street Parking.

 

*Espresso drinks by $2 donation from local café Fresh Press Coffee Bar available between 830-930.

 

We are asking that you RSVP by March 1st so we can ensure seating is available. Seating is limited!

604-270-9220 or email info@richmondaddictions.ca

 

 

2015 Harm Reduction Film Series: The Drug Overdose Crisis

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2015 Harm Reduction Film Series: The Drug Overdose Crisis
Feb 25, SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver

http://drugpolicy.ca/events/2015-harm-reduction-film-series-the-drug-overdose-crisis/

cannabis in the news - vancouver considers regulation options #cannabis

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FW: Support Pannagh

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 | | 0 comments

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Support Pannagh

Stop prosecution and regulate social cannabis clubs

Monday, November 25, 2013

Pannagh, one of the oldest cannabis social clubs in Spain, is being prosecuted by the Spanish prosecutor. Two years after the precautionary closure of the association of cannabis consumers Pannagh, the anti-drug prosecutor has asked prison sentences totaling 22 years in prison and fines of nearly two and a half million euros for five members of the association.

The prosecution accuses president Martin Barriuso, treasurer Igor Gaminde and the secretary of the association of a "drug trafficking offense with outstanding importance" asking for sentences of 4 and ahalf years in prison and of involvement in a "criminal organization" which correspond to another year and a half sentence. The three were imposed a bail of one million euros, so all their assets were seized. The other two defendants, two members working with a harvest labour contract, are accused of drug trafficking and sentences of two years a 1.000 euro fine have been requested.

Given these facts, the signatories want to publicly express the following:

The Association of Cannabis Consumers Pannagh was formally established as a non-profit association in 2003. It consists of adult people who use cannabis, and its activities are aimed at avoiding risks to its members which are related to the black market and preventing damage associated with the use of the plant.

It’s common knowledge that Pannagh attempts to create alternative circuits to supply cannabis within the current legal framework and to reduce illicit trafficking. To do this Pannagh for several years has organised a closed circuit of cannabis cultivation. This has repeatedly been declared legal by different courts. All previous cases have been dismissed and filed through final judicial decisions, including orders of the Provincial Courts of Bizkaia and Álava. In both cases the confiscated cannabis was returned to the organisation.

We believe that the closure of Pannagh - that has now lasted two years - and the complaint against several of its members is a good example of the legal uncertainty surrounding Pannagh’s activities, a situation that the association has been questioning for years at various levels, and the existence of which was recognized by the Basque Parliament in the resolution that led to the creation of an initiative to regulate Cannabis Social Clubs.

It is noteworthy that, since its founding, Pannagh has been developing activities towards establishing a framework of rights and obligations for cannabis consumers, as well as a comprehensive regulation of plant related activities. For years, its activities have been generally known and tolerated by the de facto government.

It is particularly worrying that three members of the board of Pannagh are accused of involvement in a criminal organisation, when the group is exactly the opposite: a legally registered association, whose activities have been developed without a shadow of secrecy. Not only is it unfair to punish more harshly those who try to follow the channels of the law, but also can it make others believe that it is safer away to keep away from them.

Without going into qualifying the specific legal proceedings, we want to express our support to the public work of the accused persons and, therefore, to that of the entire group of people representing cannabis consumers. We understand that their work in favor of regulation for groups of people who use cannabis in our community, and for more just and effective social policies, has been positive and constructive.

We ask you to spread this manifesto as much as possible through social networks, websites, emails and everything you can think of. Any person or organization wishing to join this manifesto may send their support to freepannagh@gmail.com. In that mail please simply specify if you support the manifest on a personal or at an institutional level. On December 5th we present the manifesto at a public event in Bilbao.

Medical marijuana easily 'dispensed' in Vancouver - fifth estate, CBC News Posted: Jan 31, 2015

Tuesday, February 3, 2015 | | 1 comments

 

 

 

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Medical marijuana easily 'dispensed' in Vancouver
Quick consultation with a nurse or naturopath gets people access to as much marijuana as they want
CBC News
January 31, 2015


 

 

 

 

The New Yorker article. The Trip Treatment by Michael Pollan

Monday, February 2, 2015 | | 0 comments


 

Annals of Medicine February 9, 2015 Issue

The Trip Treatment

Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results.

By Michael Pollan