Court eases medical marijuana rules, reinstates law against possession
Those with permits must have access to drug: judges

An Ontario Court of Appeal ruling has theoretically made it easier for medical marijuana users to safely get a good supply of the drug.

But the court yesterday reinstated the law against everyone else possessing small amounts of cannabis for recreational use.

The court dismissed an appeal by the federal Justice Department of a lower court ruling that found Health Canada's Marijuana Medical Access Regulations were unconstitutional. More...

ALSO: Marijuana ruling a victory for the ill
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Liberals to fast-track passage of marijuana bill

OTTAWA (CP) — The Liberal government, brushing aside objections by some of its own backbenchers, is moving to speed up passage of controversial legislation to decriminalize simple possession of marijuana.

House leader Don Boudria served notice today that he intends to refer the bill for early committee study, after just three hours of debate in the full Commons.

The official referral will come Thursday. It will put the bill in the hands of an all-party special committee that is already on record — in a report delivered last year — as favouring decriminalization in principle. More...

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U.S. : Limits of disability act tested

The high court considers Wednesday whether a former addict should be afforded employment protections.

WASHINGTON – It would be wrong not to hire a man for an accounting job simply because he has a prosthetic leg. Or to reject the employment application of a telephone receptionist who uses a wheelchair.
But what about an employee of a defense contractor who loses his job after testing positive for cocaine and then wants his job back? More...

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I would imagine you are left handed ....to add to your being a total DEAMANDING... ALL YOUR LIFE PAIN!
Also why did you have children.... THEN DECIDE YOU WERE GAY .....George and Martha or whatever YOUR parent names certainly fouled up.......I relate you to the man on the current "stop smoking" commercial ....some one you can't ignore and yet has nothing to say about anything but their own problems!! More...

Puffing in public

TORONTO - There was little concern, lots of odd-smelling smoke and no police presence at the Hot Box Café at the lunch hour Wednesday following the Ontario Court of Appeal's decision to restore a federal narcotics law making possession of marijuana illegal.
The patio out back was filled with about 15 people, most of them smoking pot, and enjoying a languorous day in the shaded, high-fenced, intimate haven, while pedestrian traffic whizzed by in front at the Kensington Market. More...

High-tech targets bad bar customers
All patrons face personal history check at the door

Vancouver bar patrons will soon have to produce identification and have their photograph taken every time they enter clubs or bars connected to an electronic network designed to red-flag troublemakers.

Within the next six months, about 35 bars and clubs in Vancouver are expected to be hooked into the Barwatch system.

Barwatch, a coalition of Vancouver bar and nightclub owners, still has to vote today on whether to make an ID security system mandatory at all its member establishments, but John Teti, chairman of the coalition, said the vote is merely a formality. More...

BIG BROTHER COMES TO A BAR NEAR YOU: Step 1: A patron will have his photo taken and swipe his driver's licence through a scanner.

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Cocaine user a dedicated officer, court told

A Toronto drug squad officer who admitted using cocaine on the job was a dedicated investigator who worked long hours, including free overtime, a senior detective told a Brampton court yesterday.

Officers in the northwest drug squad, which policed some of Toronto's most dangerous neighbourhoods, often worked free overtime under great stress, Detective Carey Norman testified in a sentencing hearing in the Superior Court of Justice. More...

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SPEAKING MORE OPENLY ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE
Hidden Cases, Including Mine

By Mark Elliot

Being a victim of sexual abuse makes for good conversation these days, but I cannot say I enjoy the topic. Sexual abuse is a very familiar topic for those of us involved in alcohol and drug recovery. I have heard estimates that 60 percent to 80 per cent of us have been sexually abused. When I first began discussing it publicly in 1991 a secretary asked me if such talk was "some new fad for young men". I think the look she got from me told her what she needed to know.

It is no fad. I would prefer to have my nails pulled out with a pair of pliers - slowly and with agony if it would mean never having to discuss my sexual abuse again. It is a subject that’s caused me no end of pain, confusion, alcoholism, and addiction since I was six years old. Other victims are suing the church, the parochial schools, the government, and others for their suffering. I have no one to sue and no desire to do it even if I could. More...

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U.S. : Limits of disability act tested The high court considers Wednesday whether a former addict should be afforded employment protections.

U.S. : Limits of disability act tested

The high court considers Wednesday whether a former addict should be afforded employment protections.