ENG:
The Marijuana Party of Canada is a Canadian federal political party whose short-form name that appears on the voting ballots as Radical Marijuana. It lobbies to end prohibition of cannabis. With the exception of this one issue, the party does not have "official policy" in any other area. Thus, party candidates are free to express their own personal views on all other political issues even if such views contradict the personal opinions of other party candidates or the party leader.
Leader: Blair Longley
Founded: 2000
Ideology: Anti-Prohibitionism (cannabis)
Source
FRA:
Le Parti Marijuana est un parti politique fédéral canadien qui vise à mettre fin à la prohibition et à son système politique.
Le Parti Marijuana a ...
Marc Emery sat up in bed that morning inspired, although he could have easily felt defeated. It was the day after the federal election, and he had run with the Canadian Marijuana Party, which hadn't won a single seat (CC#29 Marijuana Party fights national campaign). "I woke up and said 'we should make this a provincial party.'"Emery's seemingly unreachable goal: a candidate in every single one of BC's 79 electoral districts, more than any other provincial political party had ever fielded in a first election. By that night, the general concept and structure of the British Columbia Marijuana ...
amalia - in poll Radical Marijuana The Impact of Cannabis Use on Cognitive Functioning in Patients With Schizophrenia: A Meta-analysis of Existing Findings and New Data in a First-Episode Sample.
Yücel M, Bora E, Lubman DI, Solowij N, Brewer WJ, Cotton SM, Conus P, Takagi MJ, Fornito A, Wood SJ, McGorry PD, Pantelis C.
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, National Neuroscience Facility, Alan Gilbert Building, 161 Barry Street, Carlton South, Victoria 3053, Australia.
Cannabis use is highly prevalent among people with schizophrenia, and coupled ...
barby - in poll Radical Marijuana ... over medical marijuana club
IQALUIT, Nunavut — He calls himself a healer, not a dealer.
And despite spending last weekend in jail on drug charges, Ed DeVries is not about to shut what is almost certainly the most northerly - and perhaps the most popular - medical marijuana club in Canada.
"I couldn't stop this if I wanted to," says DeVries, a 52-year-old grandfather of four now facing four drug-related charges in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
He may be right.
The Qikiqtani Compassion Club, he says, distributes marijuana to 543 members, almost all of them in Iqaluit.
That would mean ...
martina - in poll Radical Marijuana
[TOP 4]
> Radical Marijuana >
News
CN ON: Cannabis Rules Challenged
The Lawyers Weekly, 04 May 2012 - Federal Government Seeking To Uphold MMAR Provisions Ontario's top court is hearing an appeal of a ruling that struck down key provisions of the law governing access to marijuana for medical use. In asking that the decision be set aside, the federal government will rely on what it argues is a series of "palpable and overriding errors" by Superior Court Justice Donald Taliano, who last year stayed a production charge against Toronto marijuana activist Matthew Mernagh. |
CN ON: Toronto Police Officer Accused Of Covering Up Kidnapping
Toronto Star, 30 Apr 2012 - A Toronto police officer allegedly conducted a sham kidnapping investigation to protect those he suspected were involved, an Ontario Superior Court jury has heard. Prosecutors opened their case Monday against Toronto police Const. Ioan-Florin (John) Floria, who has pleaded not guilty to six charges, including breach of trust, accessory after the fact to kidnapping, attempt to obstruct justice and money laundering. |
CN AB: OPED: Marijuana Causes Dopiness, Health/Safety Risk
Mayerthorpe Freelancer, 30 Apr 2012 - Marijuana is causing dopiness even among those who don't smoke it. It has been known for decades that marijuana has detrimental effects on memory, judgment and concentration, and the drug now is causing social confusion about both its physiological effects and legal status. |
CN ON: Police Corruption Trial: John Schertzer Denies Wrongdoing
Toronto Star, 30 Apr 2012 - John Schertzer, the man who led a small group of drug squad detectives accused of theft, extortion and attempting to obstruct justice, took the witness stand at his trial Monday to deny all the charges against him. It was the first time the former detective has spoken in detail about the charges he and four former fellow officers have faced for eight years. |
