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No Escape From Neighbour's Pot

CBC | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada

A woman in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia says the smell of her neighbour’s medical marijuana is ruining her life. The woman shares a company h...

Parliament Hill 4/20 Rally One Of Many Held Across Canada

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.21.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - Canadians gathered in cities across the country Saturday to mark April 20, an unofficial annual holiday celebrating cannabis culture.A larg...

Health Canada Warns Of Synthetic Pot Risks

CBC | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada

Health Canada has issued a public warning about the risks associated with herbal incense that may give a high similar to marijuana, following a CBC Ne...

Michael Bolen

The Laws Gen Y Will Change When It Gets Power

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Bolen | Posted 02.09.2013 | Canada Politics

Members of Generation Y may not be particularly interested in conventional politics, but sooner or later they're going to end up in power anyway. ...

Is Getting Legal Medical Pot About To Get Easier?

CBC | Posted 02.06.2013 | Canada Politics

The federal government is expected to unveil its new regulations for the medical marijuana program in the next few weeks and the expected changes have...

School Denies Student Diploma Over Pot, Ordered To Reconsider

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 11.19.2012 | Canada Living

The smoke may be clearing for Gautam Setia, a former Ontario student whose prep school denied him his diploma for allegedly lighting a bong and smokin...

Canada's Hemp Industry Is Booming: Trade Group

CP | John Cotter, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.04.2013 | Canada Business

EDMONTON - Canada's small hemp industry is growing like a weed, but still faces some hurdles because of its illegal and potent cousin, marijuana.This ...

So Maybe She Smoked Pot In High School

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.13.2012 | Canada Politics

VICTORIA - Premier Christy Clark has all but admitted she smoked pot in her high school days, but says that doesn't mean she's about to lobby the fede...

End Prohibition, Mayors Demand

CP | By Keven Drews, The Canadian Press | Posted 06.26.2012 | Canada Politics

VANCOUVER - Mayors from eight B.C. communities have added their voices to calls to the provincial government to regulate and tax marijuana as part of...

Legal Marijuana Grow Ops Get Boost In B.C.

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 06.20.2012 | Canada Politics

SECHELT, B.C. - Councillors in a rural community on the Sunshine Coast, north of Vancouver, have given second reading to a proposed bylaw allowing med...

Ban On Medical Pot Cookies Ruled Unconstitutional

CBC | Posted 06.13.2012 | Canada Politics

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has struck down a section of Canada's medical marijuana laws that said licensed users cannot possess pot cooki...

Legal Pot Grow Ops Coming To Canada?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 06.13.2012 | Canada Politics

SECHELT, B.C. - A community along British Columbia's Sunshine Coast is considering whether to implement special zoning for medical marijuana, allowing...

War On Drugs In Canada And The U.S. Under Attack

CBC | Posted 06.13.2012 | Canada Politics

The upcoming Summit of the Americas is likely to address issues like trade and territorial security, but many anticipate that the most pr...

Canada's Military May Work With U.S. And Mexico In War On Drugs

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.26.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Peter MacKay and his U.S. and Mexican counterparts wrap up a two-day meeting in Ottawa today that has focused on shared Nort...

Harper Pressured To End Pot Prohibition

CP | Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.30.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The Global Commission on Drug Policy says it's "very weird" that Canada is taking a tougher line on marijuana when governments across the glo...

Devil's In The Details Of The Liberals Plan To Legalize Pot

CP | Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.20.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - If Liberals are serious about presenting voters with a credible plan to legalize and regulate cannabis in the next federal election, they hav...

BIG Problems At Government Grow-Op

CP | Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.20.2012 | Canada Politics

CALGARY - The same sort of dangers and health risks lurking in illegal marijuana grow-ops have been discovered at a federally approved medical marijua...

Don't Fear The Reefer: Praise For Liberal Vote To Legalize Pot

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.17.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Don't fear the reefer. That's the message to the Conservative government from a group that fights to legalize pot.The Beyond Prohibition Foun...

Althia Raj

Liberals Vote To Legalize Marijuana

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 03.16.2012 | Canada Politics

The Liberal Party of Canada has voted to legalize pot. Seventy-seven per cent of delegates at the Liberals' biennial convention told their party's...

Liberals To Debate Making Rae's Pot Smoking Legal

The Huffington Post Canada | Michael Bolen | Posted 01.15.2012 | Canada Politics

Bob Rae has admitted he smoked marijuana ahead of the Liberal policy convention this weekend where the party will debate a resolution to decriminalize...

Marijuana Easier to Find Than Ever

CP | Tamsyn Burgmann, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.20.2012 | Canada

VANCOUVER - Billions of dollars have been put towards nipping the drug-trade in the bud, yet the ease of obtaining marijuana and its potency have bloo...

Harper Says No To Decriminalizing Pot

CBC | Posted 11.26.2011 | Canada Politics

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says his government will never agree to the decriminalization of marijuana. Harper's comments came Friday in Vancouve...

Cannabis Genome Decoded

CP | Sheryl Ubelacker, Health Reporter, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.19.2011 | Canada

TORONTO - It's the same plant, but one type provides fibres for rope, while the other can make you high.Now Canadian scientists, the first to sequence...

Mandatory Minimum Terms for Cannabis Cultivation: How Crazy Are the Harper Conservatives?

Neil Boyd | Posted 08.14.2011 | Canada
Neil Boyd

In the land of the marijuana growers -- and the land of the users -- very little will change because of Stephen Harper's mandatory minimum sentencing terms. What will convince the Harper government to change its course?