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[Alison Myrden]

Hi Guys...

 

Thought you might be interested in my most recent Blog for LEAP.

 

 

Enjoy!

 

Love and a squish,

 

 

Alison

xx

 

 

 

Canada has the highest number of cannabis consumers in the World! Canada has been at the top of the World when it comes to Drug Reform news these last few weeks and I'm excited! So much has happened, where should I start? Maybe with this article:

 

Source: The Montreal Gazette: "Marijuana laws a confusing mess" This shows exactly how Canadians feel about their drug laws - CONFUSED! If Harper (Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada) would stop antagonizing the situation by demanding stiffer jail sentences and demanding heavier fines for those who choose cannabis, our Government might just stand up and say something. Until then, we have baby Bush running our country.

 

This report came out on July 10th, 2007. Experts at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime say that 16.8 per cent of Canadians age 15 to 64 smoked marijuana or used another cannabis product in 2006, while the world average is 3.8 per cent. I would say that is a pretty noticeable difference in numbers.

 

LEAP believes that a system of regulation and control of production and distribution will be far more effective and ethical than one of prohibition. This would be an incredible road for Canada to go down once we all completely understand this highly controversial issue. This can be seen in Canada's choice of inebriant. The report further states that 16.8 per cent of Canadians between the ages of 16 and 64 used marijuana in 2004 and goes on to say that " A high rate of marijuana use occurs between the ages of 16 and 24, but people aged 16-19 have the highest rate of usage.” Of course! That is the age range when all of us experiment or choose to try some of these substances with our different peer groups.

 

The only thing the researchers didn't expect was that drug use by teenagers dropped in 2005. That year, 24.4 per cent of 12-16-year-olds in Ontario used the drug, down from past years.

 

Doesn't it make more sense to educate and regulate? After nearly four decades of fueling the U.S. policy of a war on drugs with over a trillion tax dollars and almost 40 million arrests for non-violent drug offences, America's prison population has quadrupled making prison construction America's fastest growing industry. Does this make sense as a direction and path that Canada should follow? Right now - I think NOT. With only 4.6% of the world's total population, America today has done something wrong to incarcerate 22.5% of the World's prisoners.

 

Remember, despite all the lives we have destroyed and all the money so poorly spent, today illicit drugs are cheaper, more potent, and far easier to get than they were 35 years ago, at the beginning of the war on drugs - before some of our readers were even born....

 

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Thank you in advance for passing this along to everyone and anyone you think might be interested.

 

Love and a squish,

 

 

Alison

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Speaker for LEAP

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Edited August 4, 2007 by Alison Myrden

[Gush]

Hey

I read about LEAP in a book, and was wondering if it has signed up any australian cops? and/or if their has been any attempts to do so?

 

Great Work

[torture]

Heh keep up the good work i say!

[Nooby]

When the North American Union gets established (next meeting on 20-21 this month) then all of the good work in advancing cannabis reform in Canada will be gone overnight. You have been warned. ;-)

[Alison Myrden]

I am very aware of the Security and Property Partnership Conference between the US, Mexico and Canada that just took place in Montebello, Quebec, Canada on those days.

 

Pretty scary that's for sure, but doesn't stop me.

 

Makes me fight for these issues that much more.

 

Thanx for the heads up either way doll -

 

and thanx for the kind words about LEAP Gush and torture.

 

We did have a cop from Australia named Eddie Ellison who passed away last year. He was BIG in the cop world. No others that I'm aware of yet....

 

 

Alison

xx