With new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and its new Liberal government, the New Democratic Party, Canada underscored its pledge to become the first...
Canada’s supreme court has struck down a law that restricted medical marijuana users from purchasing or consuming the substance in any form except...
Today (March 25), Providence Health Care enters the B.C. Supreme Court with a request that doctors be allowed to prescribe a special class of...
TOP COURT HALTS USE OF EXPERT OPINIONS Supreme Court Upholds Conviction in Drug Case, but Rules Witnesses Such As Police Officers Must Not Use...
A gray-bearded man wearing an army fatigue jacket and a multicolored, multitassled jester's hat is dancing along Hastings Street, evading the...
B.C. judges rule against Ottawa in safe injection fight Equating a "supervised injection site" where drug addicts consume heroin, cocaine and...
Restrictions urged on materials, equipment used to make drugs; Major bust proves the need for tighter restrictions, RCMP says The RCMP says the...
The Senate Committee studying C-15, a bill that would bring mandatory minimum prison sentences for marijuana to Canada, has given its approval...
Don Pio says he spent two hours in custody for possessing marijuana he depends on for his health. Pio, 35, says he has a medical condition that...
Scientists have an obligation to speak out when political leaders “systematically ignore scientific evidence,” says a leading researcher with the...
Eugene Oscapella was in town the other day. He's a lawyer, a teacher and a founding member of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy, and he is...
Salvia Divinorum is a plant that has seen shamanic use as a visionary sacrament in Mexico and South America for centuries. It is a unique drug,...
OTTAWA -- A federal bill to impose automatic jail terms for drug crimes, for the first time in Canada, is headed for passage in the House of...
Health Canada has faced court challenges over medical marijuana eight times and has lost all of them. In each case the decision came because the...
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana Last week the Committee on Justice and Human Rights heard...
Belleville – About 60 people attended a panel discussion on resolving marijuana prohibition at the Organic Underground in Belleville last week....
Change is in the wind for the decriminalization of marijuana possession Liberal MP Keith Martin, who introduced a private member's bill this...
The illicit drug trade is, despite its illicitness, a trade. It is an economic activity. "It's like in any marketplace," RCMP Supt. Pat Fogarty...
OTC Codeine Ban in Canadian City I recently cut his gums open behind his back teeth. He did so by biting down on a pointy piece of a french fry...
POT-POSSESSION CHARGES DOWN BY 30 PER CENT Police Looking Other Way Due To Confusion Over Canada's Marijuana Laws, Report Says OTTAWA -- The...