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141 CN MB: AFM Outlines Position On Pot LegalizationWed, 01 Feb 2017
Source:Winnipeg Sun (CN MB) Author:Dawkins, Glen Area:Manitoba Lines:43 Added:02/04/2017

The Addictions Foundation of Manitoba is urging the federal government to use a public health approach matched with strict regulation when legalizing marijuana.

"This provides us with a very unique opportunity," said Dr. Sheri Fandrey of the AFM, which released a position statement Tuesday. "This is the first time since Prohibition that a substance which is currently illegal is becoming legal and fortunately the process has enough lead time that we can get ahead of the curve and start to provide some of the resources - educational, outreach, data collection - - prior to the change happening and cannabis being made legal.

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142 CN MB: In 'Denial' About Drug ProblemWed, 18 Jan 2017
Source:Winnipeg Sun (CN MB) Author:Larkins, David Area:Manitoba Lines:46 Added:01/20/2017

An advocate for Winnipeg's homeless and addicted population says the city is in "denial" about its injection drug problem.

Rick Lees, executive director of Main Street Project, looks at other large urban centres in Canada and says Winnipeg is lagging behind in addressing its hard drugs problem.

"On the committees I sit on, it's always on the agenda for discussion, but that's all it is," Lees said. "We're where (other cities) were a year or two years ago. Ottawa is on the cusp of doing it, Toronto's mayor is out in support of it, Vancouver has been doing it for seven years now. In Manitoba, I think we're a bit in denial either because we're a smaller population or we just don't think it's that big a deal because it's not interfering with our mainstream lives."

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143 CN MB: Cannabis Users Voice Highs, Lows Of ReportMon, 16 Jan 2017
Source:Metro (Winnipeg, CN MB) Author:Jones, Braeden Area:Manitoba Lines:63 Added:01/17/2017

A local marijuana advocate is compiling criticism against Ottawa's task force report on legalization in order to make sure Manitoba's cannabis community "has a voice."

Steven Stairs, a medical marijuana user and grower who helps organize Winnipeg's 420 rallies, said he reached out to Kildonan MLA Nicholas Curry to talk about the highs and lows of the report.

Without making our voices heard early in the process, we won't have a leg to stand on," he said.

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144 CN MB: PUB LTE: Finding Fault With Stance On PotWed, 11 Jan 2017
Source:Brandon Sun (CN MB) Author:Larway, Shawn Area:Manitoba Lines:44 Added:01/16/2017

This is a direct reply to "Heed Cigarette Lessons For Pot," a letter written by John Fefchak of Virden.

I totally agree with you on one point. We can't find intelligent life, especially when we have people like you comparing the scourge of cigarettes to something like marijuana.

It is truly ignorant and quite closed-minded to say marijuana is anything like cigarettes. There is no single recorded death in history linked directly with the use of this beneficial substance.

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145 CN MB: PUB LTE: Cannabis And CarsWed, 11 Jan 2017
Source:Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Author:Elrod, Matthew M. Area:Manitoba Lines:57 Added:01/12/2017

Re: Thoughts on pot (Letters, Jan. 5)

Letter-writer James Teller misinterpreted statistics from Washington state on cannabis and driving.

The cited report states "results of this study do not indicate that drivers with detectable THC in their blood at the time of the crash were necessarily impaired by THC or that they were at fault for the crash; the data available cannot be used to assess whether a given driver was actually impaired, and examination of fault in individual crashes was beyond the scope of this study."

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146 CN MB: LTE: Thoughts On PotThu, 05 Jan 2017
Source:Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Author:Teller, James Area:Manitoba Lines:56 Added:01/07/2017

Some facts that bear on legalizing marijuana are important to consider.

Everyone agrees smoking cigarettes is bad for your health and causes many deaths each year even when the smoke is second-hand. We have laws restricting cigarette smoking, and cigarette packages warn us of the dangers. Why add another smoking risk?

Statistics in Washington state show a twofold increase in highway deaths related to marijuana, and they now make up 17 per cent of the total, so why pass legislation in Canada that will increase deaths? To put this another way: if we could reduce highway deaths by five to 10 per cent (by prohibiting marijuana use), wouldn't this be good?

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147 CN MB: LTE: Search For IntelligenceThu, 05 Jan 2017
Source:Winnipeg Sun (CN MB) Author:Fefchak, John Area:Manitoba Lines:31 Added:01/06/2017

Re: Prankster changes Hollywood sign to 'Hollyweed."

Some thing that citizens of Canada and all governments should be thinking about, as the planned legislation to legalize marijuana continues. A 'CANADAWEED' sign. Doesn't any one remember the health issues with cigarettes and tobacco through the years and the cancers associated with the use of those products? Aren't we now on the very same path to neglect our health and the social implications? I sometimes wonder why we are so obsessed with trying to find intelligent life on other planets, when we can't even find intelligent life here!

John Fefchak



(Rimshot!)

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148 CN MB: PUB LTE: Another Take On TokesWed, 28 Dec 2016
Source:Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Author:White, Stan Area:Manitoba Lines:27 Added:12/29/2016

Pamela McColl is guilty of some backwards thinking. Eight decades of cannabis (marijuana) prohibition has proven to be "experimenting with dangerous drug policies" and "risky public-health policy," not the other way around.

Insinuating cannabis laws involve "evidence-based drug policy" could not be farther from the truth. Cannabis prohibition and persecution was orchestrated from the beginning out of greed and racism. If cannabis were discovered today for the first time, it would be hailed as a miracle plant.

Stan White

Dillon, CO

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149 CN MB: Quarter Of Adults Would Try Pot If Legal: PollWed, 28 Dec 2016
Source:Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Author:sanders, Carol Area:Manitoba Lines:131 Added:12/29/2016

If marijuana is legalized in this province, nearly one-quarter of Manitoba adults say they're prepared to get some. Rich or poor, NDP or Progressive Conservative, man or woman, young or middle-aged - tens of thousands are likely to try some pot.

The Winnipeg Free Press/Probe Research Inc. survey asked, "If marijuana becomes legal in Canada, how likely would you be to use it even just once?" Twenty-four per cent - nearly one-quarter of a million adult Manitobans - said they would be likely to use it.

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150 CN MB: LTE: Anti-Drug RantMon, 26 Dec 2016
Source:Winnipeg Sun (CN MB) Author:Dirks, Laurie R. Area:Manitoba Lines:37 Added:12/28/2016

"I have been hearing and reading a lot about fentanyl and about the many hundreds who have died using it, Well, I guess I want to kill myself, so would the government please advise me were I can get a couple pills? Oh, and by the way, would they send along the location of any of the injection sites where I can get the antidote just in case I change my mind?

The question remains: Why is the government supporting this sort of crap by offering injection sites and free antidotes to people who know full well taking the drug may kill them, but they do it anyway? Maybe it's the government who needs the antidote.

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151 CN MB: Opioid Antidotes In Schools ConsideredFri, 23 Dec 2016
Source:Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Author:Martin, Nick Area:Manitoba Lines:135 Added:12/28/2016

WINNIPEG School Division is considering stocking its schools with the antidote naloxone in case any student suffers an opioid overdose.

"We need to pay attention to it," trustee Lisa Naylor said Thursday. "It may be something we deem as a good idea, as part of a first aid kit."

Naylor raised the possibility at a school board meeting earlier this month and was told the WSD administration was already looking into it. Naylor said a parent, who is also a doctor, had told her another unidentified school division is also considering putting naloxone kits in schools.

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152 CN MB: LTE: Don't Smoke 'Em If You Got 'EmFri, 23 Dec 2016
Source:Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Author:McColl, Pamela Area:Manitoba Lines:37 Added:12/24/2016

Re: How Canada's legalization of marijuana could change its relations with the U.S. (Dec. 20)

Donald Trump is the least of Prime Minister Trudeau's worries.

Three international UN drug conventions represent the legal basis of global drug prohibition, restricting nation-states from taking alternative approaches, including moving to the legalization of marijuana products for a domestic market.

The prime minister cannot pick and choose what international laws he wishes to uphold.

Not only will the new Trump administration in the United States question Trudeau's enthusiasm for risky public-health policy, but Canada will find itself offside of 190 countries that have supported evidence-based drug policy for decades. Canada has the highest rate of use by youth in the industrialized world and is the last country that should be experimenting with dangerous drug policies.

Pamela McColl

Vancouver

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153 CN MB: LTE: Going To PotTue, 20 Dec 2016
Source:Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Author:Alexander, John Area:Manitoba Lines:39 Added:12/23/2016

For the past few days I have been listening to, and reading about the 80 recommendations made by the marijuana legalization task force, headed up by Anne McMillan, a former Liberal justice minister.

Some of the recommendations include: an age for purchase restriction of not less than 18 (not 21 as recommended by the Canadian Medical Association); separate storefronts for tobacco, alcohol and pot because, according to the committee, one addiction leads to another; two separate bureaucracies for medical and recreational use; and money is to be earmarked to fight addiction, underage use and for harm-reduction strategies.

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154 CN MB: Column: No Sense Waiting On Pot PlanFri, 16 Dec 2016
Source:Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Author:Rabson, Mia Area:Manitoba Lines:110 Added:12/18/2016

OTTAWA - It seems pretty clear Canada is going to fully legalize small amounts of marijuana for recreational use in just a matter of months.

The marijuana task force reported its findings publicly this week, recommending recreational use be legalized with certain limitations, including how much can be grown or possessed at a time and where it can be sold. Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said Tuesday plans are in place to introduce legislation for legalization in spring 2017.

There is no indication the government is going to put the train back in the station on this one.

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155 CN MB: Local Pot Advocate Applauds Federal Task Force ReportWed, 14 Dec 2016
Source:Winnipeg Sun (CN MB)          Area:Manitoba Lines:90 Added:12/15/2016

A federal task force report on legalized recreational marijuana marks a "momentous" step toward the normalization of the drug, a local pot advocate said Tuesday.

"I think the consensus is this is the day a lot of people, both from the medical cannabis community and recreational users, never thought they would live to see," said Steven Stairs, a medical marijuana user and local "4/20" organizer.

The task force is recommending storefront and mail-order sales to Canadians 18 years and older, with personal growing limits of four plants per person.

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156 CN MB: PUB LTE: Black Market PotWed, 07 Dec 2016
Source:Winnipeg Sun (CN MB) Author:White, Stan Area:Manitoba Lines:32 Added:12/10/2016

Re: 'Feds should delay legalizing pot,' Dec. 6.

I'm sure Premier Brian Pallister means well. However, cannabis (marijuana) usage and sales are not going to wait for delays. Pallister's message then must be acknowledged as informing consumers to continue purchasing cannabis from the black market while government takes additional time to create a regulated legal market to replace it.

And that's perfectly fine; North Americans have grown accustomed to the increased efficiency of the black market for the last eight decades.

Dillon, Colorado

(An intense education campaign is needed for when pot is legalized.)

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157 CN MB: No Need To RushWed, 07 Dec 2016
Source:Winnipeg Sun (CN MB) Author:Lambert, Steven Area:Manitoba Lines:58 Added:12/10/2016

Pallister says he is not alone in wanting delay in feds' marijuana bill

The federal government should postpone legislation to legalize marijuana, planned for the spring, because there are still too many details to work out, says Premier Brian Pallister.

"We've done a fair bit of preparatory work here and research, and the more we do, the more we unlock complexities that need to be addressed that are not minor things," Pallister told reporters Tuesday.

"I know at least some of the other first ministers have these concerns as well."

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158 CN MB: Column: Sometimes, The Drug Problem Is Your KidMon, 05 Dec 2016
Source:Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB) Author:JenZoratti, Area:Manitoba Lines:95 Added:12/07/2016

Parents need to realize addiction knows no demographic boundaries

THERE are many ways a parent can lose a child to drugs. They might overdose and die. They might get lost to addiction, which is a kind of death. Or they might be killed by drug-related violence - such as Cooper Nemeth, whose body was found in a recycling bin in February, or TJ Wiebe, who was beaten, strangled and left to die in a field in 2003.

In February, I sat in Karen Wiebe's living room. We talked about TJ, and what the Nemeth family was going through, trying to grieve while also dealing with the justice system and the media. No one prepares you for what happens when your child becomes a headline.

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159 CN MB: LTE: Troubled TokingMon, 05 Dec 2016
Source:Winnipeg Sun (CN MB) Author:Flanagan, Stephen Area:Manitoba Lines:30 Added:12/07/2016

There is no question that the recreational use of marijuana is coming, even though it will open the door to a number of serious health issues down the road. The Canadian Pediatric Society is advocating an age restriction for its use along the lines of what is in place for alcohol. Give me a break - if they think that younger people will adhere to the age limit they are pipe dreaming. Like booze, the younger set will just pay someone to purchase it for them. This pending legislation will open up a Pandora's Box of problems but the feds can't say the [sic] haven't been warned.

Stephen Flanagan



(Fair point.)

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160 CN MB: 'We Didn't Realize It Was This Bad'Mon, 05 Dec 2016
Source:Metro (Winnipeg, CN MB) Author:Taylor, Stephanie Area:Manitoba Lines:105 Added:12/07/2016

Firefighter union reacts to Winnipeg's overdose statistics

Winnipeg firefighters and paramedics are responding to more overdose calls in 2016 than in the past five years, new data shows.

From Jan. 1 to Nov.16, the city says the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service has received 1,593 calls related to overdoses and poisonings, which are tracked together.

In 2015, the service had 1,556 of the same calls, compared to 1,328 back in 2014 and 1,269 in 2013.

Municipal spokesperson Michelle Finley said the service only tracks the calls and does not specify which drug causes an overdose.

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