". . . the price has gone down dramatically because of how exceptional the organized crime groups have been at distributing the drug and the potency has gone up exceptionally. Simply put, the war on drugs has not achieved its stated objectives."
Dr. Evan Wood details the failures of marijuana prohibition in a presentation to the City of North Vancouver council (from an April 27 news story).
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"This is work for decades. It's like winning the 2010 Olympics every two years."
Jonathan Whitworth, CEO of Seaspan, discusses the implications of its $8-billion federal shipbuilding contract (from an April 25 news story).
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"I'm just not sure how our 26 constables who respond to 7,000 animal cruelty complaints already each year, all paid by donors, are going to be able to enforce this beyond what we do already."
B.C. S.P.C.A. general manager Marcie Moriarty says tougher rules regulating dog and cat breeding in North Vancouver MLA Jane Thornthwaite's new bill will be hard to enforce without more funding (from an April 25 news story).
