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pan koscielny said...
Wlasnie wystapilismy do Google'a
zeby powstrzymac kuciaka w cuglach
nie bedzie tak, ze od kazdego rana
na Sieci trucizna jest zachwalana!
Jezeli nasz apel nie da rady
zwrocimy sie wprost do Rzadu Kanady!
3:56 am
Panie koscielny. Kanada wszak nie jest krajem suwerennym w sprawie marihuany (tanczy pod dyktando KGB-DEA), to jednak jeszcze pozwala na wolnosc slowa w sprawie trawki. Nie tak jak Polska, Kuba, Iran, Korea Polnocna, Chiny, Arabia Saudyjska czy nawet USA.
Probuj z Googlem i rzadem Kanady. Moze ci sie uda. Google dal juz dupci w Chinach, to i moze nadstawi i tobie. Rzad Kanady natomiast moze zareagowac, poniewaz RCMP jest zinfiltrowana przez KGB-DEA i wykonuje ich rozkazy. Zycze sukcesu i powodzenia w dlawieniu wolnosci slowa!
Z powazaniem, Edward Kuciak, Toronto, Kanada.
Pot still tops in usage
Drug trends around the world examines at conference
Marijuana remains the drug of choice around the world but the surge in clandestine methamphetamine production is growing concern, an international conference on fighting drugs heard yesterday.
"Synthetic drugs are really one of the key threats that we have to look at over the next few years," Derek Ogden, the RCMP's director general, drugs and organized crime, told the 24th International Drug Enforcement Conference.
The production of these drugs is easy but its toll on users and environmental harm to communities are severe, he told nearly 300 delegates from 76 countries.
Synthetic drugs are a growing portion of the estimated $322 billion US spent annually around the world on illicit drugs.
That exceeds the gross domestic product of 88 per cent of countries in the world. Karen Tandy, administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said an estimated 26 million people worldwide use ecstasy and methamphetamines, which she added still ranks well behind the 161 million users of various forms of cannabis. Addiction to ecstasy and meth leaves users physically battered by the potent chemicals.
Canada is increasingly becoming a destination of choice. Canadian police dismantled 30 clandestine labs last year, up from 14 a year earlier, said RCMP deputy commissioner Pierre-Yves Bourduas.
CANADIAN PRESS (METRO, Wednesday, May 10, 2006).
RICKY WILLIAMS
ANOTHER SEASON GOES UP IN SMOKE
The latest, and possibly final chapter of Ricky Williams' pro football career ended last week when the 28-year-old running back lost his appeal and was suspended from the NFL for failing another drug test - one of 10 a month he's been forced to take since coming out of retirement last June. Blessed with Hall of Fame potential, Williams has proven incapable of handling the pressure that comes with being a sports star. In 2004, after his third failed test (for marijuana), the Miami Dolphin left the game he didn't love and escaped to Australia - living in a tent, eating organic and spending his days doing yoga and smoking pot. But his responsibilities to three children, their mothers and the Dolphins resulted in his return a year later. Williams promises to be back on the Dolphins roster in 2007. But maybe we'll see him up here - last week the Toronto Argos reserved his CFL rights ("Newsmakers", MACLEAN'S, May 8 '06).
Undercover with U.S. narcs
RCMP plots new front in drug war in closed-door meet with DEA
By CHARLIE McKENZIE
WHILE POTHEADS AND HEMPSTERS converge at Queen's Park north on Saturday (May 6) for the Global Marijuana March, undercover narcs from around the globe will be gearing up for a closed-door huddle in Montreal.
Called the International Drug Enforcement Conference and co-hosted by the RCMP and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the meet opens May 8 at the Hilton Bonaventure. Why Montreal? you might ask. In the 23 years the org's been meeting to coordinate the planetary dope siege, most of the host cities have been Latin American high-density crime zones. These include Panama City during Manuel Noriega's heyday; Cartagena Colombia, when the Medallin cartel was going full bore; and world crime capital Washington, DC.
Does our cosmopolitan city on the St. Lawrence suddenly rank as a global class-A dope and delinquent metropolis? DEA spokesperson Garrison Courtney waves off such reasoning. It's just geography. "Montreal's more a question of accessibility than anything else," he says, pointing out that the IDEC took place in Canada once before. "Ottawa, I think, but I'm not sure when."
Actually, probably not. A check of the DEA site (www.dea.gov/programs/idec.htm), good for additional rhetoric and negligible information, reveals that Canada has never before been an IDEC venue.
The paranoid could easily imagine that this comfy co-sponsorship signals the deepening of the bond between our Mounties and the U.S. feds. RCMP reps deny there's anything new or startling here. "The RCMP has always had a close relationship with the DEA and other world partners," says Mountie spokesperson Sergeant Martin Blais. "At the close of last year's conference [in Santiago, Chile], the Canadian delegate stepped up to the plate and asked to host the event this year."
Indeed. The DEA's Courtney puts it this way: "Canada's in charge this year." And though the complete agenda is under cloak of darkness, one of the keynotes listed for the media, called Global Trug Threat, is being given by RCMP Superintendent Derek Ogden.
But the day the IDEC opens, another clutch of drug experts will be converging at the Hotel Marriott down the street. This meet has open arms and open doors. It's a counter-symposium sponsored by a coalition of anti-prohibitionists, including Students for a Sensible Drug Policy and the University of Ottawa's criminology department, and it's titled Can We Talk?
It offers a who's who of drug scholars, activists and former cops, all on a quixotic quest to "open a dialogue with the DEA" and offer alternatives to prohibition. The general public is cordially invited, but DEA delegates are especially welcome, on the off-chance they might learn something.
"Current drug policies diminish everyone," says retired BC Provincial Court judge and symposium speaker Jerry Paradis, a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). The thousand-plus drug cases he heard in his 28-years on the bench back him up.
"It diminishes judges by requiring them to shut their minds off from the irrationality of what they're required to do," he says. "It diminishes lawyers on both sides - the prosecutors by forcing them to pursue people and issues that they know full well belong in the field of health care, and defence counsel by forcing them to play silly Charter of Rights games instead of dealing with real issues. And it diminishes the police by forcing them to see drug users as prey, not worthy of serious second thought."
Also present will be Lionel Prevost, whose opposition to the current drug laws stems from his 25 years with the Surete du Quebec. Today he teaches criminology at the Universite de Montreal and is an ardent - and eloquent - anti-prohibitionist.
According to symposium coordinator Marc Boris St. Maurice of NORML-Canada, "This is the first time retired judges and police officers have followed [the IDEC] to speak out against the insane drug wars."
We can only hope for a little sharing before drug warriors adjourn and return to business as usual.
Charlie McKenzie works at the Medical Cannabis Dispensary of Montreal (NOW, May 4-10, 2006 - news@nowtoronto.com).
GLOBAL MARIJUANA MARCH
End the prison state. Cures not wars. Free Marc Emery. Stop all cannabis arrests. Saturday (May 6), Queen's Park north, 11 am to 8 pm. Get the straight dope at cannabisweek.ca.
Police must target synthetic drugs: RCMP
Marijuana remains the drug of choice around the world but the surge in clandestine methamphetamine production is a growing concern, an international conference on fighting drugs heard yesterday.
"Synthetic drugs are really one of the key threats that we have to look at over the next few years," Derek Ogden, the RCMP's director general, drugs and organized crime, told the 24th International Drug Enforcement Conference.
The production of these drugs is easy but its toll on users and environmental harm to communities are sever, he told delegates from 76 countries.
Synthetic drugs remain a small but growing portion of the estimated $322 billion US spent annually around the world on drugs.
Various forms of cannabis account for about 80 per cent of the world's 200 million drug users.
Karen Tandy, administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said she was pleased with the Conservative government's vow not to decriminalize possession of small quantities of pot.
"We have very much, I believe, the same approach to protecting the people of our communities," she said, a day after meeting with Health Minister Tony Clement, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day and Justice Minister Vic Toews.
- The Canadian Press (24 HOURS, May 10, 2006).
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