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?

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

Penitentiaries  Mr. Speaker, the penitentiary administration has informed me that it does not allow the use of marijuana in religious ceremonies.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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