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Plume of Confusion with Liberals' Pot Proposal 
Posted by CN Staff on May 29, 2003 at 17:39:45 PT
Opinion
Source: Abbotsford News 
One commentator Tuesday called the federal Liberals' proposed new marijuana laws among the most confusing introduced in the House of Commons. And that they are, so much so that we doubt the proposed laws as they now stand will become law, by virtue of opposition from Liberal MPs and a short time-frame to enact the legislation into law.Justice Minister Martin Cauchon, fresh from his kowtowing visit to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to assure Big Brother that Canada is not necessarily abandoning the ludicrous war on drugs, has essentially drafted proposed laws that say smoking a joint or carrying a few joints in your pocket is no big deal, but growing the weed that fills the joints that sit in your pocket is a definite no-no.
Seems to us Cauchon neglected to note that one needs to grow marijuana for people to smoke them, even it's just one spliff after work.While the Canadian Alliance's position on the issue of marijuana remains mired somewhere between the hilarious Reefer Madness film and Uncle Sam's failed lock-'em-up mentality, Canada's second party is correct in its assessment that Bill C-38 is sending the wrong message to youth."On one hand," says the Alliance, "the health minister says smoking pot is unhealthy, yet the justice minister makes the fines for marijuana use 50 per cent less for youth."Cauchon boasts that the proposed new law will increase to 14 years the maximum sentence for those convicted of growing more than 50 plants.To that we can reply with a great big yawn. The current law carries a maximum sentence of seven years, yet we have yet to see any judge hand down such a sentence. In fact, it is a rare day indeed when growers receive any jail time.Perhaps the judges believe what the majority of Canadians think: Marijuana is a relatively benign drug that should be decriminalized, if not outright legalized, as our Senate believes.Again Tuesday, we heard B.C. Solicitor General Rich Coleman droning on and on about the need to get tougher with growers because the pot trade is controlled by organized crime.And again we say to the former Mountie: Of course organized crime is in charge. And it will remain in charge while marijuana is illegal.Cauchon himself has acknowledged that at least 100,000 Canadians smoke pot on a daily basis, with millions more being recreational users.The proposed new laws won't affect those numbers in the least. If anything, stiffer penalties for growing marijuana in theory, at least will only make the bud more lucrative for those "organized" criminals over which Coleman keeps shaking his head.Source: Abbotsford News (CN BC)Published: Thursday, May 29, 2003 Copyright: 2003 Abbotsford NewsContact: editor abbynews.comWebsite: http://www.abbynews.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Cannabis News Canadian Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/can.htmPot: Altered State - Surrey Leader http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread16430.shtmlDrug Scheme Full of Mixed Messageshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread16429.shtml
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Comment #5 posted by WolfgangWylde on May 30, 2003 at 08:21:56 PT
Confusion is Good
The bigger the cluster, the better the chance the new law will not pass. That means the Courts decision stands. All the better.
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Comment #4 posted by Jose Melendez on May 30, 2003 at 08:12:02 PT
cannabin
from:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/87/C0068700.htmlThe American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. 
 
cannabin 
 
SYLLABICATION: can·na·bin PRONUNCIATION:  kn-bn NOUN: A resinous material extracted from cannabis. ETYMOLOGY: cannab(is) + –in. Also, from:
http://hempmuseum.org/ROOMS/ARM%20RECREAT%20&%20RELIG.htm1. "The Modern Drug Encyclopedia and Therapeutic Guide," by Jacob Gutman, M.D., 1934. Paul B. Hoeber, Inc. New York. Under Chapter II, EFFECTIVE PREPARATIONS, is listed the following preparations: 
   A. CANNABIN COMPOUND (Stoddard Co.) Aphrodisiac. Each tablet represents:                                 Gr   GmExtract cannabis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/6   0.012Zinc phosphide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/8   0.008Strychnine phosphate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/38  0.001Extract quassia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1/32  0.002Action and Uses: As aphrodisiac in sexual impotence, neurasthenia, alcoholism.Supply: CANNABIN COMPOUND -Tablets - Bottles 100, 500, and 1,000.Administration: 1 tablet four times daily, increased to 2, four times daily.also, from:
http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/eclectic/sayre/cannabis.html112. Cannabis. - Indian Cannabis. Indian Hemp. Hemp.
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Other tomes: Felter - Ellingwood - Potter - BPC - Petersen - King'sThe dried flowering tops of the pistillate plant of Can'nabis sati'va Linné or of the variety indica, Lamarck (Fam. Moraceae), freed from thicker stems and large foliage leaves, and without admixture of more than 10 per cent. of fruits.TEST.—When made into a fl'ext. and assayed biologically, produces incoordination when administered to dogs in a dose of not more than 0.03 mil of fl'ext. per kilogramme of body weight.BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS.—Stem 4 to 8 feet high, annual, tall, and roughish, the inner bark consisting of tough fibers. Leaves palmately 5- to 7-divided, the leaflets coarsely serrate. Flowers dioecious green, in compound, axillary racemes or panicles. Akene globose, crustaceous.SOURCE.—The plant is indigenous to Asia, from India northward to Western China and Caspian Sea. Its cultivation has extended to Central and Southern Europe, Russia, Brazil, and the Western United States— in fact, it may be said to grow in all civilized countries on the globe.DESCRIPTION OF DRUG.—Cannabis indica occurs in commerce as bundles of the flowering tops; the branches, digitate leaves, and the numerous flower-bracts are more or less compressed, and agglutinated together with a resinous exudation; color brownish-green; odor peculiar, narcotic; taste bitterish, somewhat acrid. It is sold in Indian bazaars for smoking purposes as "gunjah." The leaves, small stalks, and capsules, dried separately and mixed with aromatics and fruits, form the Arabian confection, "hashish, bhang, or siddhi." "Churrus" is a brown, earthy-looking resin, brushed off from the plants by leather-clad men running through the field.Cannabis americana, the plant grown in various parts of the United States, acts similarly to the official plant. See article by author, "Cultivation of Medicinal Plants in U. S." Jour. Amer. Phar. Assoc., 1915Powder.—Characteristic elements: See Part iv, Chap. 1, B.CONSTITUENTS.—The resin and a yellow, aromatic volatile oil, C10H16, are its most important constituents. The former, cannabin (15 to 20 per cent.), is a brown, amorphous powder, soluble in absolute alcohol (but not in cold alcohol of 89 to go per cent.), from which solution it is thrown down as a white precipitate by water; it is very potent, 33 of a grain acting as a powerful narcotic; it comes into the market as cannabin tannate; choline, C5H15NO2, syrupy, soluble in alcohol and water, very sensitive to Mayer's reagent, yielding a yellow, crystalline precipitate, is probably the same as the so-called alkaloid, "tetano-cannabinine." Ash, not exceeding 15 per cent.Cannabinol.—This principle has been obtained by Wood, Spivey, and Ester held from the exudate of cannabis indica (charas). Several different fractional distillates from the ethereal extract of this exudate were obtained. Among these distillates is cannabinol, C18H24O2, boiling at 265°C, It is oleaginous and has a red color. This they have found to largely represent the active principle. A condensed account of the pharmacology of cannabis indica, as contributed by Dr. C. R. Marshall, may be found in "Western Druggist," 1889, pp. 163-166.Preparation of Cannabin.—Treat drug with water made alkaline with Na2CO3; exhaust dry residue with alcohol; add milk of lime; precipitate with H2SO4; treat filtrate with animal charcoal. From the resulting liquid, concentrated, cannabin is precipitated by water.ACTION AND USES.—Powerful narcotic. The primary effect of the drug is that of exhilaration, intoxication, stimulating the imagination, etc. This is followed by depression, drowsiness, and stupor, the heart becomes weak and slow and the pupil dilated. It has some advantages over opium, it is claimed, in that it is not constipating, and interferes less with digestion; it is more acceptable in certain morbid states of the system and nervous disquietude. Dose: 3 to 5 gr. (0.2 to 0.3 Gm.).OFFICIAL PREPARATIONS.112a. CANNABIS SEMEN.—HEMP SEED. These have been used in the form of emulsion as demulcent and anodyne, depending upon the fixed oil which they contain. They are mostly used as a bird-seed, however, and for the extraction of the fixed oil.112b. OLEUM CANNABIS.—OIL OF HEMP. A greenish fixed oil, becoming lighter and brownish on exposure; odor hemp like; taste mild. Used as a demulcent and protective. Neither it nor the seed are thought to have any narcotic action....as always, remember: poison is legal, just not pot!
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Comment #3 posted by goneposthole on May 29, 2003 at 22:29:42 PT
improperly defined
I refuse to agree with the first definitioncannabis sativaCannabin \Can"na*bin\, n. (Chem.) A poisonous resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica). The narcotic effects of hasheesh are due to this resin.Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.cannabis sativahttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cannabis%20sativaCharras \Char"ras\, n. The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus. --Balfour.Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.cannabis sativan : a strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared [syn: marijuana, marihuana, ganja, pot, grass, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, skunk, Mary-Jane, Cannabis sativa]Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton Universityhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cannabis%20sativa
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Comment #2 posted by Lehder on May 29, 2003 at 22:06:04 PT
botany 101 
>>Perhaps the judges believe what the majority of Canadians think: Marijuana is a relatively
   benign drug that should be decriminalized, if not outright legalized, as our Senate believes.It's not what I think and I doubt that Canadians think marijuana is a relatively benign drug. I think it's a plant. It has roots, a stalk, leaves and flowers. That's why I think it's a plant. Drugs are the the things that are pushed on television, like "the purple pill." Drugs cause all sorts of troubles like headache, diarrhea, abdominal pain, fatigue and insomnia, exactly as advertised. Plants don't. If they did, no one would smoke them.
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Comment #1 posted by goneposthole on May 29, 2003 at 21:11:25 PT
at least somebody gets it
Inuit teenagers mix milk with gasoline. Toronto teenagers eat Jimson Weed and dern near die. What will it take for the big, dumb neighbor to the south of Canada to realize that cannabis prohibition increases dangerous drug use? Just how much ignorance do they have?How long must the charade continue?
 
A news story today says the US gov has a 44 trillion dollar debt. The amount is about 147,000 dollars of debt for every man, woman and child in the United States. Be sure to mail in your check. "President Bush signed into law a $350bn tax-cut package on Wednesday saying:``We can say loud and clear to the American people: You got more of your own money to spend so that this economy can get a good wind behind it." http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1051390392975&p=1012571727088Don't catch a whiff of that wind, it might offend your olfactory.
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