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U.S. Warns Pot Plan To Clog Border
Posted by CN Staff on December 13, 2002 at 11:05:20 PT
By Bill Curry 
Source: National Post 
U.S. drug czar John Walters warned yesterday that Canadians could face problems at the border if Ottawa proceeds with the decriminalization of marijuana.Mr. Walters travelled to the Canada-U.S. border at Buffalo to deliver his message on the same day a Commons committee called for the possession and cultivation of less than 30 grams of marijuana to be decriminalized.
Mr. Walters, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said RCMP officials recently told him that 95% of all marijuana grown in Vancouver is sent to the United States."The RCMP informed me that many of the organizations, some of them ethnically based, Vietnamese organizations and others, that are doing the grows in British Columbia are now moving groups across Canada to Ontario and Quebec to begin to supply larger parts of the United States," he said."It's bad for people in Canada and the consumption and dependence problems it creates, but also, their estimates are the bulk of that marijuana is headed for the United States and it's large quantity, high-potency and it builds on the threat that we now believe we have underestimated and we're trying to address."It makes security at the border tougher because this is a dangerous threat to our young people given what we see and it makes the problem of controlling the border more difficult," he said.Mr. Walters dismissed claims marijuana is not addictive or a serious drug, saying the level of psychoactive THC is much higher than it used to be. "That's archaic views of what marijuana was, left over from the Cheech and Chong years of the '70s," he said, cautioning against "reefer-madness madness."Even as Mr. Walters was warning of trouble at the border, news emerged of co-operation on security issues. Global National reported last night that the two countries are close to signing an agreement that would enable police in each country to instantly access criminal records of the other country's citizens using cutting-edge fingerprint-scanning technology.In Ottawa, Wayne Easter, the Solicitor-General, responded to Mr. Walters' speech by stating that Canada is free to make its own laws.Mr. Easter said he will raise the issue when he meets with John Ashcroft, the U.S. Attorney-General, next week. "Mr. Walters is entitled to his opinion. We make our laws in this country based on the decisions and the debates in the House of Commons. Laws change as time goes on," Mr. Easter said.On the fingerprint front, the Global National report cited senior government officials in Ottawa and Washington who confirmed that Mr. Easter would discuss fingerprint sharing with Mr. Ashcroft during a meeting of the countries' top lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday. The report said a deal to swap criminal records could be signed at that time.The "live-scan" technology allows law enforcement officers to obtain fingerprints via an electronic scanner. The information can then be instantly cross-referenced against criminal-records databases. Snipped:Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/cbr.htm Source: National Post (Canada)Author: Bill Curry Published: Friday, December 13, 2002Copyright: 2002 Southam Inc.Contact: letters nationalpost.comWebsite: http://www.nationalpost.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Cannabis News Canadian Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/can.htmU.S. Drug Czar Slams Proposed Pot Rule Changes http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14970.shtmlLoosen Pot Laws and Face Tighter Border http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14969.shtmlU.S. Fears Change in Marijuana Lawshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14968.shtmlDrug Czar Talks About Tightening at Borderhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14955.shtml 
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Comment #14 posted by John Tyler on December 14, 2002 at 07:31:58 PT
Blame it on the minorities again
"The RCMP informed me that many of the organizations, some of them ethnically based, Vietnamese organizations and others, that are doing the grows in British Columbia are now moving groups across Canada to Ontario and Quebec to begin to supply larger parts of the United States," he said.Here we go again with the blame it on the minority populations again. (I suppose they don't have enough black folks in Canada to blame.) This makes it easier to pick out the "criminals". 
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Comment #13 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on December 14, 2002 at 05:54:30 PT
Unmanned aircraft flying border patrol?
OK, maybe there is more they can do to tighten the border:
Agencies see Homeland Security role for surveillance drones
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Comment #12 posted by BGreen on December 14, 2002 at 02:03:08 PT
Robert Maginnis' Lies Are Bigger Than Walters'
Check out this video at Pot-TV for some doozies.Walters keeps saying the potency of cannabis in the 70's was 1%, but Maginnis says (at 14min26sec in the video) "back in the early seventies it was about a little under 1% potency. Now you're finding stuff like BC bud that may have 20% potency."A little under 1% THC? That's HEMP! People don't get HIGH off of HEMP, they get HEADACHES!Now, did the people at Woodstock look like they were smoking hemp? Remember, that's the 60's not the 70's, and cannabis has only increased in potency since the 60's, according to the gov't propaganda.According to this lack of anything resembling logic spewing out of the mouths of Walters and Maginnis, the potency of cannabis we smoked in the 60's must have been in the negative numbers.However, I don't know what I find more appalling, the excruciatingly unbearable lies of Walters and Maginnis, or the Canadian Media outlets that, just like their amerikan counterparts, NEVER call them on these obvious lies to their faces and therefore allow the general public to believe these lies as truths.
The Empire Strikes Back: Amerika Condemns Canadian Decriminilization
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Comment #11 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on December 13, 2002 at 19:14:59 PT
LTE
Sirs,  As an American citizen, let me encourage Canadians to ignore the warnings of John Walters, the American "Drug Czar". His threats about tightening the border are empty ones - after September 11th, our borders cannot get much tighter. His main concern is not marijuana, but his own job security. Please don't hesitate to cease the reprehensible practice of jailing your own citizens for possession of a plant. Perhaps the USA will learn from your example, like we did with the repeal of alcohol prohibition.
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Comment #10 posted by The GCW on December 13, 2002 at 18:34:30 PT
p4me
Thank You for that link.And when the war ends, may You change Your name.The Green Collar Worker in You.(that dept. is bulleeeek. It would certainly be something the government doesn't want YOu to think about (._.)Lord, forgive them.
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Comment #9 posted by John Tyler on December 13, 2002 at 13:50:27 PT
Szabo, cannabis is not cocaine
Recall Liberal MP Paul Szabo's warning to Parliament in 1995 that modern marijuana is "as potent as cocaine was 10 years ago". If this statement by Szabo is accurate, then it is clear that he has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. For the record cannabis is not cocaine, and an apple is not an orange.
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Comment #8 posted by FoM on December 13, 2002 at 13:41:22 PT
Thanks The GCW
The Victoria Times Colonist is on my snipped source list but if Map posted it I guess it's ok! I named you Newshawk and thanks again!http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread14974.shtml
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Comment #7 posted by The GCW on December 13, 2002 at 13:28:03 PT
Marijuana as potent as cocaine? 
Are kids and adults safer, then, using coke?Better ask the urine suckers... Is that urine effecting their judgement?
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Comment #6 posted by The GCW on December 13, 2002 at 13:24:46 PT
Marijuana as potent as cocaine was 10 years ago?
Recall Liberal MP Paul Szabo's warning to Parliament in 1995 that modern marijuana is "as potent as cocaine was 10 years ago." DUTCH COULD TEACH US A LOT ABOUT MARIJUANA LAWS 
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n000/a245.html?397I don't know but now, it must be even stronger... and since I don't know, perhaps I should ask John Walters. 
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Comment #5 posted by John Tyler on December 13, 2002 at 13:10:37 PT
Promise or threat
U.S. drug czar John Walters warned yesterday that Canadians could face problems at the border if Ottawa proceeds with the decriminalization of marijuana. Is this a promise or a threat? Does he have the authority to make this statement, or should that be done by the Border Patrol?
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Comment #4 posted by p4me on December 13, 2002 at 12:23:18 PT
Have I got news for you
It was news to me just a few minutes agoThat the national debt has risen $1.25 billion a day since September 28,2001: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/The number had previously been 1.111 billion a day but now they have adjusted it. Now think that the entire expenditures of the state of North Carolina could be covered by two weeks of this debt. And where is it going? Why is the misadministration calling on tax cuts for the rich when the country is in a terrible way and it is the rich sucking the money out of the federal treasury to start with. In Rebecca Knight's last piece at Buzzflash she used the numbers that the individual welfare/socialnet cost the average taxpayer $400 while the corporate welfare cost the average taxpayer $1400. Any why does the press not report the deficit at $400+ billion instead of a $160 number they are fond of when they actually mention the idea that the country is going broke. Low interest rates are the only reason the economy is not worse than it is and if the federal government competes with the private sector rates have to go up sometime and when they do it really will tough.The federal governments tax cuts are just a shift from federal expenditures to the states where federal mandates will not be supported with federal money. The tax increases and the safety net cuts are on there way to almost all the states. It is not pretty and there is always, always, always, a day of reckoning. Just ask Argentina.I again call on all who read these words to spread the idea that we must send a message that will be heard. The best idea to get the media and the government's attention might be to put a protest sign up in your yard and I can see that day coming for me. But the course of protest I would like to further is to buy $4.20 of gas when at the pump and to spread this idea to other websites on the Internet. All I can say is you should try it and see how it feels. For me it feels like I am taking an action of resistance to these insane cannabis laws.We are again in a time that will try men's soles and it is only Common Sense that we must actually do something.1
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Comment #3 posted by The GCW on December 13, 2002 at 12:09:35 PT
I am sick of Reefer Madness in the flesh.
John Walters is not simply an embarassment, He is dangerous to North America."There's not a question about whether marijuana is a dependency-producing substance today," John Walters told Canada AM in an interview broadcast yesterday. "Some people seem to be living with the view of the reefer-madness seventies." http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n2253/a05.html?397 =_= "The use of cannabis ( "what lawyers and state legislators call marijuana" ) provides her with relief from her discomfort and that relief is not available through any other means." (one day civilized people may not even publically refer to cannabis by the derogatory slang term...) "The system depends on everyone following the law - police, lawyers, judges, juries and defendants." 
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n2253/a09.html?397 
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Comment #2 posted by p4me on December 13, 2002 at 11:49:17 PT
Walters is cheating on his lying
Mr. Walters, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said RCMP officials recently told him that 95% of all marijuana grown in Vancouver is sent to the United States.It is beyond obvious that 95% of all pot grown in Vancouver would not make it to the United States. So Walters has someone tell him something so that he can honestly say that a RCMP employee told me that growing cannabis is for export to the US almost entirely. Walters is cheating on his lying about the way kids put the number 18 in their shoes when signing up in the Civil War so they could honestly say they were over 18.Let's have a controlled experiment. Let's get some volunteers of prohibitionist sheeple and lock them up for a couple of days and when they get out have them consume some cannabis for a couple of days and ask them which causes more harm. Did you $4.20 anywhere yet? If activist aren't active in changing the laws how will they ever change? 1
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Comment #1 posted by WolfgangWylde on December 13, 2002 at 11:45:20 PT
Canada will toe the line. They know who calls ...
...the shots on this continent.
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