Pubdate: Mon, 29 Jan 2007
Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2007 The Calgary Sun
Contact:  http://www.calgarysun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67
Author: Pablo Fernandez, Calgary Sun

PROVINCE LOOKS TO HANG UP ON DIAL-A-DOPERS WITH NEW
LEGISLATION

Selling drugs from the driver's seat will cost dealers their wheels 
under legislation which could be approved this year, the province's 
new solicitor general said yesterday.

The new legislation, proposed last year by Red Deer MLA Mary Anne 
Jablonski, would see dial-a-dopers lose their cars on the spot.

The drug dealer law is similar to Bill 206, which was implemented 
last Oct. 23 and gives cops the power to confiscate vehicles from 
johns caught soliciting prostitutes.

Solicitor General Fred Lindsay said Bill 206 has been an effective 
tool and he thinks the dial-a-doper solution would also be successful.

"Police already have the authority to do that ... the proceeds from 
crimes legislation is already in place," he said.

"But this would make it even easier to do that."

Dial-a-dopers carve niches by being available via telephone and 
delivering drugs.

They are a large part of the booming market for crack cocaine in the 
city, according to police, as the drug becomes popular with people 
who tend not to frequent street dealers.

Lindsay said he hopes the proposal will become law during the coming 
spring sitting of the legislature.
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