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From The Media Awareness Project - Canadian News

    • BC: PUB LTE: Editorial's Criticism Of Cheech And Chong
    • Kamloops Daily News, 23 Jul 2010 - I am disappointed to see educated reporters like yourselves jump to conclusions so quickly and fail to see the bigger picture (Cheech and Chong, Just Say So Long, We Say editorial, July 20). First, you branded two extremely successful international comedians simply as stoners and as such took the same ignorant route that our prime minister and policy makers have for the last 50 years.
    • BC: PUB LTE: Anti-Pot Laws To Blame Rather Than Pot Itself
    • Nanaimo Daily News, 01 Sep 2010 - Re: 'Home invasion linked to drugs' (Daily News, Aug. 30) So quick to blame it on the pot. I blame it on the law against it. Since the United States started its war on illegal drugs, open your eyes and see society crumble: Columbia, Panama, Central America and, alas, Canada.
    • ON: PUB LTE: Needle Mess
    • Ottawa Citizen, 31 Aug 2010 - Re: The needle hunter, Aug. 29. If Ottawa had an INSITE safe-injection facility like the one in Vancouver, we would have a lot less of this kind of mess. The RCMP even admitted that they were wrong and that INSITE is actually a benefit to the community -- or they would have, if the ideological federal government hadn't prevented them from doing so.
    • BC: PUB LTE: Drug Prohibition Is No Protection
    • Victoria Times-Colonist, 31 Aug 2010 - Rosa Harris-Adler opined that the observations of the Le Dain Commission on the spiritual role cannabis played in the hippie sub-culture were "innocent-sounding." ("Pot debate finally reaching a high point," Aug. 27). Entheogenic plants such as peyote, ayahuasca, psilocybin mushrooms and cannabis have always been and will continue to be used as powerful and valuable spiritual tools.
    • AB: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
    • Edmonton Sun, 31 Aug 2010 - The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it's not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It's the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it's because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors - not the neighbourhood pusher - for a fix.
    • ON: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
    • Ottawa Sun, 31 Aug 2010 - The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it's not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It's the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it's because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors - not the neighbourhood pusher - for a fix.
    • MB: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
    • Winnipeg Sun, 31 Aug 2010 - The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it's not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It's the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it's because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors - not the neighbourhood pusher - for a fix.
    • ON: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
    • London Free Press, 31 Aug 2010 - The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it's not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It's the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it's because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors - not the neighbourhood pusher - for a fix.
    • ON: Council Supports Harm-reduction Strategy For Drugs
    • Toronto Star, 27 Aug 2010 - Toronto has become the first city in the world to endorse the Vienna Declaration, which advocates harm reduction over the law enforcement-driven war on drugs. City council voted 33-7 to sign on to the declaration, which was unveiled last month at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna. It calls for a more comprehensive approach to curb unsafe drug use that leads to illness such as HIV and AIDS.

From The Media Awareness Project - Cannabis Canada

    • AB: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
    • Edmonton Sun, 31 Aug 2010 - The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it's not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It's the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it's because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors - not the neighbourhood pusher - for a fix.
    • ON: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
    • Ottawa Sun, 31 Aug 2010 - The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it's not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It's the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it's because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors - not the neighbourhood pusher - for a fix.
    • MB: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
    • Winnipeg Sun, 31 Aug 2010 - The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it's not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It's the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it's because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors - not the neighbourhood pusher - for a fix.
    • ON: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
    • London Free Press, 31 Aug 2010 - The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it's not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It's the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it's because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors - not the neighbourhood pusher - for a fix.
    • ON: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
    • Toronto Sun, 31 Aug 2010 - The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it's not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It's the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it's because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors - not the neighbourhood pusher - for a fix.
    • QU: Marijuana Effective For Pain Relief, Study Finds
    • Guelph Mercury, 30 Aug 2010 - Smoking pot can make some of the pain go away, without the patient getting high. The finding comes from what researchers in Montreal believe to be the first outpatient clinical trial of smoked cannabis, involving 21 people with chronic neuropathic pain.
    • QU: Marijuana Effective For Pain Relief, Study Finds
    • The Record, 30 Aug 2010 - Smoking pot can make some of the pain go away, without the patient getting high. The finding comes from what researchers in Montreal believe to be the first outpatient clinical trial of smoked cannabis, involving 21 people with chronic neuropathic pain.
    • Canada: Pot Offers Buzz-Free Pain Relief - Study
    • Chronicle Herald, 30 Aug 2010 - Research Took Almost 10 Years to Complete Smoking pot can make some of the pain go away, without the patient getting high. The finding comes from what researchers in Montreal believe to be the first outpatient clinical trial of smoked cannabis, involving 21 people with chronic neuropathic pain.
    • QU: Marijuana Effective For Pain Relief, Study Finds
    • Toronto Star, 30 Aug 2010 - Smoking pot can make some of the pain go away, without the patient getting high. The finding comes from what researchers in Montreal believe to be the first outpatient clinical trial of smoked cannabis, involving 21 people with chronic neuropathic pain.