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Controlled Drugs And Substances Act but that has been countered by the increasing potency of drugs, the new and dangerous ways in which drugs are injected and increasing use of different drugs in lethal combinations. New emerging trends in drug abuse include hydroponic cultivation of potent strains of marijuana
February 18th, 1994House debate
Herb GrayLiberal
Excise Act communities in Canada if there were a suspicion for example that there was an illegal marijuana garden in the basement of a house. I can assure members that from seeing the results of such activities in the papers over many years the RCMP is over that residence like a swarm of bees. I
February 22nd, 1994House debate
Dick HarrisReform
Health licences to grow marijuana depending on the level of THC, the hallucinogenic agent in cannabis. Perhaps the minister sees us as a country in which people will live in houses made of hemp particle board, read hemp newspapers, wear hemp clothing, drive cars powered by hemp based methanol
March 21st, 1994House debate
Nelson RiisNDP
Controlled Drugs And Substances Act it to the Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, not the Standing Committee on Health. I want to talk for a moment about marijuana. A survey a few years ago revealed at that time that 4.5 million Canadians 15 years old and over had tried some form of cannabis. The same survey showed
April 19th, 1994House debate
Paul ForsethReform
Controlled Drugs And Substances Act Mr. Speaker, the hon. member made reference to marijuana and a particular threshold of three kilos without making reference to that as being simply a procedural matter in the act and having nothing to do with substance. The new legislation in dealing with cannabis, which
April 19th, 1994House debate
Morris BodnarLiberal
Controlled Drugs And Substances Act I understand the point. There is a demarcation on schedule VI concerning the three kilo mark, over three kilos or under. I know the pressure of the court system in the province of British Columbia and elsewhere. If the charge is simple possession of marijuana or a small amount
April 19th, 1994House debate
Paul ForsethReform
Tobacco Taxes is very serious and the description made by the member was truly frightening. He may be right in a sense, but then should we prohibit cigarette smoking the same as cannabis, marijuana, cocaine and all these other drugs? I do not think this is possible in a society like ours. I think we
October 20th, 1994House debate
André CaronBloc
Gun Control with the prohibition of liquor and we have seen it for years with the trafficking of cocaine, speed, marijuana and other narcotics into our country. Guns are not immune from the underground economy. In fact trade in that market has not been diminished but rather enhanced by government action. I
November 30th, 1994House debate
Jack RamsayReform
Nuclear Reactor Finance Limitation Act people often use for example is there are a number of people employed in this sector. Of course, we could say that about any sector. If that were the sole motivation, I suppose we should be subsidizing the marijuana industry or the drug industry if jobs are the criteria. Any economic
February 14th, 1995House debate
Nelson RiisNDP
Penitentiaries Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Solicitor General. In our penitentiaries we have 1,200 Rastafarians, members of a religious sect that includes smoking marijuana as a part of Sunday services. The chaplains, torn between their responsibility for spiritual well-being
May 3rd, 1995House debate
Penitentiaries Mr. Speaker, the penitentiary administration has informed me that it does not allow the use of marijuana in religious ceremonies.
May 3rd, 1995House debate
Herb GrayLiberal
Penitentiaries Mr. Speaker, I am afraid our sources contradict each other. Since there is no indication of this in the various annual reports published by Correctional Service Canada, I would ask the minister to identify for the House the Government of Canada's supplier of marijuana.
May 3rd, 1995House debate
Government Appointments to spell marijuana correctly. Was the justice minister made aware of the very close political ties between the revenue minister and the Victoria law firms before the appointments were made?
June 5th, 1995House debate
Jim AbbottReform
Controlled Drugs And Substances Act understanding of how Canadians want to deal with marijuana. Cannabis and its derivatives from now on will have a distinct schedule in the bill, schedule I(i). Cannabis has been set apart from other hard drugs. It is being treated separately. As we will see from this amended bill, government
October 30th, 1995House debate
Hedy FryLiberal
Controlled Drugs And Substances Act , this process could take years. I would simply say with regard to the commercial production of hemp that it is a long way off, if indeed it is appropriate at all. Finally, I want to comment on the subject of marijuana. Not surprisingly, a number of Canadians urged the committee
October 30th, 1995House debate
Paul SzaboLiberal