CN ON: OPED: Cameron Figures He’d Rule As PM For A Day
09/01/2010 12:00 AM

Barrie Examiner, 01 Sep 2010 – If I were prime minister for a day and could have carte blanche on any changes I wanted for this land of ours, I wouldn’t waste the opportunity. In fact, just in case it ever happens, I have a list all ready. First, I’d legalize marijuana. I don’t smoke pot — my preferred poison comes from a cold can with, patriotically enough, the name ‘Canadian’ on it — but the truth is that many Canadians do and will continue to.

CN BC: Valley RCMP Pitching In On Pot Crackdown
08/31/2010 12:00 AM

Comox Valley Echo, 31 Aug 2010 – The Comox Valley RCMP is currently involved in an annual marijuana eradication program, along with the Victoria Police Department and Saanich Police. The Canadian Forces is also lending hand by transporting the integrated police unit by helicopter to access remote grow-op sites.

CN AB: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
08/31/2010 12:00 AM

Edmonton Sun, 31 Aug 2010 – The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it’s not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It’s the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it’s because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors – not the neighbourhood pusher – for a fix.

CN ON: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
08/31/2010 12:00 AM

Ottawa Sun, 31 Aug 2010 – The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it’s not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It’s the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it’s because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors – not the neighbourhood pusher – for a fix.

CN MB: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
08/31/2010 12:00 AM

Winnipeg Sun, 31 Aug 2010 – The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it’s not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It’s the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it’s because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors – not the neighbourhood pusher – for a fix.

CN ON: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
08/31/2010 12:00 AM

London Free Press, 31 Aug 2010 – The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it’s not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It’s the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it’s because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors – not the neighbourhood pusher – for a fix.

CN ON: Column: Our Drug Priorities Need To Change
08/31/2010 12:00 AM

Toronto Sun, 31 Aug 2010 – The federal government has it half right. We have a drug problem. But it’s not marijuana, which has never killed anyone. It’s the abuse of prescription drugs which kills hundreds of Canadians annually. Whether it’s because of ongoing pain, depression or the urge to get high, more and more people are heading to their doctors – not the neighbourhood pusher – for a fix.

CN QU: Pot Can Lower Pain Without The High, Study Finds
08/30/2010 12:00 AM

Windsor Star, 30 Aug 2010 – Briefly inhaling cannabis three times a day eases a kind of chronic pain that affects tens of thousands of Canadians — without making them high — Montreal researchers are reporting. The new study, the first clinical trial in the world to allow patients to take marijuana home with them and “self-dose,” found that for people with neuropathic pain — a common and dreaded condition that causes electric, stabbing pain — smoking cannabis reduced pain, improved mood and helped them sleep.

CN QU: Marijuana Effective For Pain Relief, Study Finds
08/30/2010 12:00 AM

Guelph Mercury, 30 Aug 2010 – Smoking pot can make some of the pain go away, without the patient getting high. The finding comes from what researchers in Montreal believe to be the first outpatient clinical trial of smoked cannabis, involving 21 people with chronic neuropathic pain.

From MAP – Cannabis – Canada