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Advocacy groups say users get healthier with heroin | CTV British Columbia

Advocacy groups say users get healthier with heroin | CTV British Columbia.

ACEA | Anti Corruption Enforcement Agency

ACEA | Anti Corruption Enforcement Agency.Just had to post this web address as it’s the only one that is currently still showing the Robert Dziekanski tasering death at YVR.Lest we forget.As we become inundated with east asian immigrants,used to government control and thinking that the government never lies and that the police are our friend(though they’ll never call them).It’s more important than ever that those of us who remember a Canada that was protective of it’s citisens abroad and did peace keeping not nation building.That cared about the environment and put it above the almighty dollar and that cared whether or not it’s mp’s made racist comments or lied in the house.It’s important that the 60% of us that find Stephen Harper abhorrent and his use of the big lie disgusting keep pointing at things that just are not Canadian.Harper is hell bent on a series of social engineering projects that he feels will solidify his hold to power till the next decade.The RCMP becomes a bigger pariah with each incident of needless violence or in custody killing.Harassment of women members and the old boy network that will not go away.These are Harper’s cowboys and he uses them like his own personal political army.They do not complain.They,therefore,cannot be trusted.

StoptheDrugWar.org | raising awareness of the consequences of prohibition

StoptheDrugWar.org | raising awareness of the consequences of prohibition.While we have continued to fight the good fight,People continue to go to jail for what are,essentially,health problems.Others,like myself are left in chronic pain because our former drug use has made us pariahs to the BC College of Physicians & Surgeons and we cannot receive proper pain medication while in other jurisdictions people complain about being drugged into unconsciousness.It’s a small wonder that a society in which even the so called experts have no idea what they are dealing with or how to use the tools they have at their control.That the people we elect to office,most with no medical knowledge at all are getting it all so very wrong.Even in countries where a method of decriminalization or legal treatment options have been successful ,our political leaders scoff and say it wouldn’t work here.They never say why but one can only assume that they think their population is inferior in every way to those from Europe,where most of the gains have been made.One group of local politicians toured Europe and ignored every country with progressive policies and stuck to Italy,a country famous for it’s hard line approach to addiction and drugs in general.There are none so blind as he who will not see.Evidently,it is saner to propose a base on the moon than to take a new look at a problem that was created by politicians in an era where every vice was seen as the devils work and bad laws were enacted that it has taken years to rid ourselves of.This prohibition of substances with thousands of years of little harm has created a problem that didn’t exist until the twentieth century.Drug laws are historically the result of a religious fervour and no small amount of racism.They are aimed at controlling certain segments of society even though their use is often much more prevalent in others.This is only going to end in one way.Like alcohol,drugs are a personal choice and have been around for almost as long as man.Their use has a long history and has been tolerated or enjoyed by all segments of society since their discovery.People have made their choice clear with the use of their hard earned dollars.The harsher the law is made in an effort to deal with the problem the harder the criminal that enters the ring.Alcohol was controlled by the most vicious and deadly and so now are drugs.Our money and human resources can be better spent on education,treatment and where those don’t work,maintenance.The cost in dollars and cents is a no brainer.It costs 45,000 dollars to keep a man in prison for one year.This is money wasted in the worst possible way.People are picked up for minor drug charges and wind up facing murder charges just trying to protect themselves.Who’s fault is it that that person’s life is forfeit?When I was dealing in the 70’s,80,s and 90,s there were very few killings.What there were were over rip offs or personal beefs.Now people are shot for wearing the wrong color or being on the wrong block.This is not progress.I have watched for 43 years and things are much worse every decade.To do the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome is insanity.We need to drop this failed prohibition before things get any worse.Every year there are newer and more dangerous drugs.Without the market created by prohibition we would still be dealing with opiates and cannabis with a few psychedelics thrown in.Meth had already run it’s path and faded out.New pharmaceuticals created a whole new plague there.People used to take bennies.The harsher the law enforcement the worse the problem gets.Take it from one who’s seen it all before.As a species we are terrible at learning from history.I am seeing old fights that we thought were over being dredged up by a new generation of prohibitionists who are just as ill informed and are using the same debunked arguments as those from generations past.Even those trying to bring about change are insisting on doing the same work as in the past.This stuff is all out there.Someone just has to collect it all together and even then the politicians will put themselves and their careers ahead of the common good.That is our biggest problem.Willful ignorance with a personal motive.

http://yfrog.com/page/addthis?server=576&filename=r3lms.jpg&yfrog_url=http://yfrog.com/g0r3lmsj&is_photo=true&screen_name=rodmickleburgh

http://yfrog.com/page/addthis?server=576&filename=r3lms.jpg&yfrog_url=http://yfrog.com/g0r3lmsj&is_photo=true&screen_name=rodmickleburgh.This woman dared to protest against Stephen Harper.She was,luckily,off the bike at the time.Not just content to muzzle climate scientists and environmentalists,use closure on all debate and legislate an end to all strikes since gaining his majority.Harper will not contenance any protest of any kind in his presence.He has changed the letterhead on government documents from the Canadian to the Harper government and has returned the Royal designation to our armed forces.The man is a megalomaniac and a racist as are many of his cabinet.He is an evangelical christian and a zionist.His utter disdain for political protocol verges on the dictatorial.He managed to go from a minority to a majority government with a .001% increase in the popular vote.He has been changing the rules with reckless abandon ever since.He can probably now hold his majority without gaining a single vote.He represents 39% of 55% of eligible voters.About 21% of Canadian voters.He stands alone in opposing any harm reduction measures,let alone drug reform.His opposition to cannabis legalization flies in the face of both the evidence and the general public.There is something fundamentally wrong with our system when such a small minority of public opinion can rule like a dictator with nothing that can oppose him.The gap between rich and poor will widen to new and terrible heights under this government.The environment will be degraded and the grip of corporations is guaranteed to be solidified.Like the Mulroney years before,Harper will leave a legacy of wanton corruption that will take decades to repair.

BC agency favours legalisation of cannabis

BC agency favours legalisation of cannabis

Under the heading:”B.C. health officials endorse cannabis legalization report”.The 24 hrs news agency says that health officials,academics and justice experts are backing the legalization of marijuana.The article quotes angus reid as polling that 77% of British Columbians favor reform58% don’t believe cannabis is more dangerous than alcohol.The article says that the BC cannabis industry brings in 7B dollars a year to the economy.260M has been spent since 2007 on the national anti drug strategy.The article goes on to say that the federal government is the lone barrier to cannabis reform and that in spite of their rabid anti drug policies and tough on crime attitude the drug is more popular than ever.It’s use doubled in Ontario in the decade from 1999-2009 from 10-20% amongst high school age people.BC’s gang related homicides went from 25 in 1997 to 43 in 2009.Drug prohibition has been a spectacular failure in every way possible and has cost us billions in wasted time,effort,lives and deaths.

 

Thugs on and off the ice

The night began with Don Cherry chiding the Canucks as cowards who wouldn’t fight over a warmup shot by Tim Thomas who was a smug asshole throughout.The play on the ice was full of the usual hacking slashing tripping tackling throwing down of the Sedins every time they stepped on the ice.Then after this slugfest ended and the biggest thugs in the league took the cup and left the few thugs who consider themselves bomb throwers took over and trashed our city for their own            amusement.Make no mistake,the police chief called these goons criminals.I have been a criminal and these guys were punks,not criminals.Crime has a purpose.It may be a sick and depraved purpose but it has a purpose.What we saw last night was a few good men beat down by a mob of drunken louts with nothing but destruction in their hearts.To the few who tried to stop the stupidity before it could start,thank you.To the rest of you,go to the US.They love thug behaviour down there.You can even carry a concealed weapon.Don’t look back.Theres a real war in Mexico.Beheadings,executions,show us what you’re really made of.See ya!To Stephen Harper.This is what kind of society you get when you spread fear and dissension like fertilizer.Your negativity was in the air as it is where ever you go.You can’t fight a dirty election,act like a demagogue and then try to be Joe 6 pack at a hockey game.Your cynical attempt at gleaning some benefit from a Canadian hockey team was transparent and a curse on every Canadian hockey team as long as you stay in politics.Go home and please don’t ever come back to our arena.We never said you could use government security and transport for you and your families amusement.You disgust me more than the thugs.

When yes means no

Where else but in BC politics can the word yes mean no?The government,a Liberal government that has changed it’s leader but none of it’s major brain trust,has lied to the people of the Province often and without conscience.They now expect that we will believe that a tax we were promised was;”not even on this governments radar”will be reduced over a three year period”.They know that the only chance they have,even after spending an unknown amount of tax dollars to convince us this tax is good for us.Is to blindside the no HST crowd with a question that will confuse a % of voters.While the recall has been a cry of NO HST,the answer to the question,if you want NO HST is YES.The NDP braintrust approved the question,which is another problem for another day.Hopefully,the recent appointment of a LEADER to the party may stop some of the endless faux pas that plagued the party under it’s last leader.It is doubtless that there will be some of the 18% of undecided voters that will just grab the letter when it comes,check off no and send it off thinking that is a vote against the hated HST.It is NOT.To rid us of this unnecessary burden on our already overtaxed populace,you must vote YES to GETTING RID OF THE HST.Don’t let this cynical bunch of political hacks who have made it a habit to promise the moon and deliver mouldy cheese have their little deceptions pay dividends.It is only 50/50 that we will have a legitimate election here with no fake ballots and no short counts.This is the government that sold out the rights to our rivers FOR ALL TIME to their big business buddies.That passed a carbon tax and came up with the gateway project to destroy any possible gains.That screwed up the school system(yes Chrissy Clarke,you did that yourself)so that there is a total adversary relationship with the school boards and the teachers union.That turned hospital workers into indentured servants,illegally as it turns out.Anyone that thinks this government can be trusted on anything is in denial.Please,when you get your forms in the mail,take the TIME to READ them.Vote “YES” to RID us of the hated and terrible HST.The government is good at one thing and that is using deception to have their way.Don’t let them fool you this time.

How a Harper majority would spell the end of our country

Canada has long been a very different country from the United States and we have always been grateful for that.That was before the election of a minority Conservative government and the total destruction of the Liberal party,the one time bulwark of middle of the road politics and the holding together of the country.Now we have Harper,with his separation politics,not separatist but separate,divide and conquer.Put every part of Canadian culture against the other.The politics of hatred as practiced by our friends to the south.No coincidence as Harper brought his political mind trust from the United States and has often said he wishes we could be a part of the United States.While he attacks Michael Ignatieff for having the nerve to travel and learn about the world and our chief competitor.Harper,who never left Canada before becoming PM,felt that he could deal with the world he knew nothing about that he hadn’t gleaned from the pages of a book,has us mired in an unwinnable war in Afghanistan that his government has lied about and been caught lying about.Unfortunately,Harper has been caught lying about so many things no one seems to notice any more.If Stephen Harper is ever given a majority in this country it will soon become unrecognisable from our neighbors from the south.It will be the end of our health care system as we know it,in spite of the very weak rebuttal form John Baird,the man who defended Harpers climate policies for years and who was the most hated man at more than one climate conference.Why are we ordering the f 34 attack stealth bomber,an offensive weapon?Who is Harper planning to attack?It must be someone because even Obama has no idea what the cost of the f 34 is going to be.If we are to be spending unlimited ammounts of cash on an attack bomber Harper must have someone in mind he wants to drop bombs on in an offensive war.After all,that’s the reason the f 34 exists.He has forced the people that have come in on the ships into the west coast to py off their smugglers and yet howls that it’s Ignatieff who’s weak on border security.No one is allowed to be weak on border security and the concessions that Harper has Made to the Americans are beyond anything that’s necessary for the security of anyone.Forcing us to concede flights within Canada to submit lists of 22 questions on people on board a Canadian flight.People with a criminal record are being forced to get permission to fly in their own country.This is the kind of thing that Harper finds alright because there are people he considers to be citisens and then there’s the rest of us.You won’t know where you stand till you try to fly somewhere.Terrible environmental policy,concessions to the USA that make no sense and that can in no way threaten them,stripping away of financing for political parties that will hurt every party except Harpers conservatives,Speeding up of oil sands development at a time when the knowledge to get this oil is in it’s infancy and when most of the oil produced has to go to the United States and when increases cannot be cut back,ever thanks to the NAFTA signed by the last conservative government.The only government in Canadian history ever to be sanctioned for lying to parliament.This is the conservatives who are running another dirty campaign filled with lies and innuendo.Before you vote for a conservative candidate,find out where they are coming from and what they believe.Look up the neocons and Leo Strauss and ask yourself if this is the kind of dirty tricks,lies,misinformation and framing that you want in your government.You will not have to read very far to see every dirty move that Harper has used to win two minority governments.I just find it shocking that Canadians seem willing to overlook the total lack of values and morals that these supposed evangelicals use to get their way.Please,look into these people.They are racists,they are haters and they have no moral fibre.

stuff that makes you say,What?

The head of the bank of Canada says the recession is over.I guess the depression begins

Ctv ran a story that they said just might incite another child rape.Their next broadcast included the story about a new rape by the same molester.

How many more revelations will we hear about what the Campbell government kept hidden till after the election?Is anyone actually surprised by any of them?

Is anyone else confused by the stance taken by certain high profile environmentalists in the last election?I guess the carbon tax was worth the loss of our rivers and the hydro prices that are soon to grace our bills.Just keep flying all over the world and we’ll take care of things here.

What happened to the concept of open and accessible government?It must have been deleted with those E mails.

If anyone’s counting,we just buried our 125th soldier from the Afghanistan war.To celebrate they sent us 165lbs of pure heroin.Too bad the police intercepted it.This is not a government our youth should be sacrificing themselves for.

Liberal corruption or the uncertainty of Carole James

My roots are Ndp to the core.My Gram was T.C.Douglas’ personal secretary in Coquitlam.I can still remember who it was  first cut welfare rates from something that was livable to Sro’s and at least 10 days of hunger.I believe this was also there reason for the founding of the food banks.I have no faith in any politician now and by reducing the possible candidate base by as much as 50%,Carole James scares me to death.She stands firm on issues that are her personal opinions but waffles badly on just about everything else.I hate the Liberals arrogance and obvious corruption.P4’s are the worst thing I’ve seen in 60 years.Just ask the folks in England.Remember that conservative politicians frame elections long before they start.How much has this government spent of your and my money to convince us this is the best place on Earth?We can be sure of one thing.If re elected the Liberals will continue to sell off our children’s birthright to corporations that worry about nothing but the bottom line.Our rivers will become the property of private firms that can restrict access and charge whatever they want and have no obligation to sell one volt in B.C.Look at the Alcan deal.They’re still trying to sell that as a plus when the company pulled out of the major refit and can now sell that power to whomever they choose.This will be remembered as the government that thought winning an election meant they owned the province and all it’s resources.Environmentalists one day and major oil producers the next,fighting to have the ban on oil shipping on our coast.Who do they work for?Themselves and each other from what’s been exposed till now.

it as soon as the ink was dry on the contract.They follow leo,their guru.His framing stragedy has proven devastating to the opposition.All lies and untruths but repeated often enough to be believed by all but the most astute reader.It comes out eventually(B.C.Rail)but by then it’s usually forgotten and the spin doctors have people believing the spin they put forward.