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Police Chiefs Get Through to the Top!
Posted by FoM on April 22, 1999 at 18:56:27 PT
Source: National Post Online
OTTAWA Anne McLellan, the Justice Minister, said yesterday the federal government will give serious consideration to a recommendation from Canada's police chiefs to decriminalize simple possession of marijuana and hashish. The board of directors of the Association of Canadian Police Chiefs has approved the decriminalization proposal, but insists that provincial and federal governments direct more funding to treatment of drug abuse as well as educational prevention programs. 
Under the proposal, anyone convicted of possession of a small amount of marijuana or hashish would pay a fine that could be settled out of court on a first offence. The police chiefs believe this would clear a backlog of drug cases in the courts and allow them to focus their resources on more serious crimes, like drug trafficking. "We as a government take the resolutions of the Canadian chiefs very seriously," Ms. McLellan told reporters. "Obviously the police have concerns about maximizing the use of their resources and certainly this is part of a larger debate about how we should deal with certain aspects of the possession or use of drugs." Click the above link for the full article!
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