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1 CN ON: Provincial Dollars Help Cities With Pot LegislationSat, 10 Mar 2018
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Della-Mattia, Elaine Area:Ontario Lines:94 Added:03/13/2018

The provincial government will provide $40 million of its revenue from the federal excise duty on recreational cannabis over two years to help municipalities with the costs of implementing legislation.

But municipalities have not yet received any more information about what that will mean exactly.

The province has said that funding will be distributed to municipalities on a per household basis with a minimum of $10,000 per municipality.

"We know municipalities will play a key role as the federal government moves forward with the legalization of recreational cannabis. This is why we engaged with municipalities early I the process," said Minister of Municipal Affairs Bill Mauro. "Our government respects the role of municipalities in the legalization of cannabis and we know we can rely on their valuable input as we continue to navigate this process together."

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2 CN ON: Chief Worries About Toking And DrivingWed, 27 Dec 2017
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Kelly, Brian Area:Ontario Lines:108 Added:12/27/2017

Impending legalization is daunting says Keetch

Sault Ste. Marie's top cop anticipates impaired driving by drugs "is going to be a significant challenge" in the latter half of the new year.

The federal government plans to legalize marijuana on July 1.

Robert Keetch, chief of Sault Ste. Marie Police Service, fears city residents will opt to toke and drive, not recognizing how their ability to drive may be impaired.

"Canadians have not been getting the message when it comes to impaired driving and it remains the leading criminal cause of death in Canada," he told The Sault Star. "I believe that legalizing marijuana will only add to the numbers of drivers on our roadways whose ability to drive is impaired by either alcohol and/or drugs. I believe there are individuals who will consume legal marijuana and be under a false impression that their ability to drive is not impaired and will get behind the wheel of a vehicle and drive."

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3 CN ON: SAH Boss Talks Hospital Cannabis PolicySat, 09 Dec 2017
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Ougler, Jeffrey Area:Ontario Lines:75 Added:12/14/2017

Smoke-free means smoke-free at Sault Area Hospital - whether that applies to tobacco fixes or toking up.

Sault Area Hospital currently has a no-cigarette policy that encompasses its entire property, which will apply once recreational pot becomes legal in Canada next summer.

"We have a no-smoking policy, so that would apply to smoking marijuana on our property," SAH president and CEO Ron Gagnon told The Sault Star.

SAH's policy includes all buildings, parking lots, the Hub Trail running along the eastern edge of the hospital grounds, roads encircling the hospital leading to and from both Great Northern Road and Third Line and wooded and grass areas to the south and west of the emergency department and helipad.

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4 CN ON: Column: We're Not Ready For PotSat, 21 Oct 2017
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Ross, Jessica Area:Ontario Lines:120 Added:10/21/2017

As legalized pot looms, an ER physician argues we're unprepared for a serious health syndrome

That was definitely vomit, I thought as I stepped in a slippery substance and caught the rail of the stretcher to avoid sliding underneath. That bilious smell does not come out of shoes.

After ordering an intravenous, a cocktail of anti-emetics - and a change of footwear for myself - I run through a mental list. What causes a 14-year-old patient to vomit like this? Appendicitis? Meningitis? Overdose?

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5 CN ON: Column: Pot Education Must Be HonestFri, 29 Sep 2017
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Soupcoff, Marni Area:Ontario Lines:66 Added:09/29/2017

You're about to legalize a drug that poses more serious risks to young people than it does to adults. You want to make sure young people know about these risks so that they don't see legalization as a green light to start or continue using the drug. (The drug will still be legally off limits for those under 18 at least, but this doesn't tend to mean a lot in practice.) What do you do?

Creating successful anti-drug campaigns is tricky. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program has been used in U.S. schools since the eighties and has proved popular and pervasive.

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6 CN ON: LTE: Legalizing Pot Will Yield Sky-High Health-Care CostsWed, 16 Aug 2017
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Edwards, Don Area:Ontario Lines:44 Added:08/17/2017

I was a volunteer for the Lung Association for 30 years. We advocated to help smokers quit and pointed out the dangers of smoking tobacco products. I was president of the Ontario Lung Association for two years and appointed to the Canadian Lung Association for two years.

During those years, I met many doctors who pointed out the dangers of tobacco to human health.

Those same doctors told me that smoking marijuana was even more unhealthy because marijuana contained several more carcinogens (cancer causing agents) than tobacco.

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7 CN ON: OPED: More Focus Needed On Getting People Off DrugsThu, 03 Aug 2017
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Wood, Evan Area:Ontario Lines:85 Added:08/03/2017

As the opioid crisis worsens, the more we learn about why people are dying. One thing is evident: the drug supply is becoming more toxic. The deadly drug fentanyl is being detected in more than 72 per cent of all overdose deaths in British Columbia. Two years ago, it was found in only 29 per cent; two years before that, just 15 per cent.

While untold fatal overdoses have been prevented by first responders, other health-care providers, and peer groups, the increasingly poisonous drug supply is clearly undermining the efforts to reduce overdose deaths.

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8 CN ON: Column: Buy Low And Sell HighMon, 17 Apr 2017
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Bonokoski, Mark Area:Ontario Lines:106 Added:04/19/2017

In the bull-bear world of stock-market traders, the smell of fear ultimately tightens sphincter muscles and triggers sell-offs.

Within minutes of Justin Trudeau's Liberals tabling their pot legislation, for example, the TSX began dumping some of its publicly traded marijuana stocks.

The lack of clarity in the Liberals' spanking-new Cannabis Act got speculative investors nervous, which led to a feeling of financial uncertainty, which led to an unloading of stock.

Whether pot or pork bellies, a commodity is a commodity.

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9 CN ON: Marijuana Task Force Hears From Sault Multi-Billion DollarTue, 28 Feb 2017
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Della-Mattia, Elaine Area:Ontario Lines:135 Added:03/04/2017

The man in charge of touring Canada to promote the legalization of recreational marijuana says regulating weed will better protect young people, reduce organized crime and educate Canadians.

MP Bill Blair (Scarborough Southwest), the former top cop of Toronto's Police Service, said the federal government is adhering to its commitment to legalize cannabis following extensive cross-country consultation.

Blair is charged with travelling across Canada to educate stakeholders and receive input on various aspects that will result in a spring introduction of a bill. The Parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General is conducting round tables and meeting with stakeholders in the public justice, health, education and drug treatment and prevention sectors, among others, about the legalization of marijuana.

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10 CN ON: Column: Evidence Supports Fight For Harm Reduction Plans 19Sat, 21 Jan 2017
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Baranyai, Robin Area:Ontario Lines:89 Added:01/23/2017

The tide is turning on harm reduction. The reins of a new national drug strategy are squarely in the hands of Health Canada. There are positive signs legislators are abandoning ideology for evidence-based policy, and stonewalling for action. Last year, the opioid crisis claimed 916 lives in B.C. alone.

The momentum for supervised injection sites builds on other initiatives, including methadone treatment and a growing network of needle-exchange programs, officially around since 1989.

Harm reduction measures help decrease health risks for drug users at all stages of addiction and recovery. Measurable outcomes include reduced transmission of HIV and hepatitis C through needle sharing, fewer overdose deaths and greater access to addiction recovery supports.

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11 CN ON: Column: B.C. Shows What Happens When All Goes To PotThu, 05 Jan 2017
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Cooper, Barry Area:Ontario Lines:81 Added:01/06/2017

Visiting British Columbia is like going to a foreign land without using your passport.

Having spent most of my early life there, it's always fun to see how much has changed. When I was a kid, for example, there was a major moral panic over marijuana use and another about Vancouver being the heroin gateway to North America.

The drug scene today is the opposite of a moral panic. It's more an everyday complacency. With pot soon to be legal across the country, B.C. provides a glimpse of our future. If you wander through B.C. today, as we did over the Christmas break, more or less normal Albertans might be forgiven for thinking that the whole province is stoned.

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12 Canada: Latest U.S. Marijuana Votes Could Bolster Canada'sFri, 11 Nov 2016
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Bronskill, Jim Area:Canada Lines:91 Added:11/15/2016

OTTAWA - Canada's effort to craft a legalized marijuana regime could be boosted by the move of four more U.S. states to approve recreational use of the drug, says a Halifax law professor.

As it designs a new system, the Liberal government must address the fact Canada is a signatory to three international conventions that require criminalization of the production and possession of cannabis.

The nod this week to recreational pot use from voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada should give Canada more ammunition in the court of global legal opinion, said Archie Kaiser, a professor in the schools of law and medicine at Dalhousie University.

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13 CN ON: Editorial: Legalizing Pot Not So EasyTue, 25 Oct 2016
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON)          Area:Ontario Lines:68 Added:10/26/2016

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a mandate to legalize pot. He ran on it in last year's election. But as Postmedia's just-completed, six-part series O Cannabis illustrates, it's one thing to promise legalization, another to deliver it.

The biggest challenge facing the Liberals is how to regulate and tax the sale of marijuana- an estimated $7 billion-a-year underground business in Canada, that could increase to $10 billion to $20 billion with legalization.

The problem is that if the government makes legal pot too expensive, then the black market in it will continue to thrive.

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14 CN ON: Sault Police Focus More On Hard Drugs Than PotSat, 15 Oct 2016
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Kelly, Brian Area:Ontario Lines:60 Added:10/17/2016

Lighting up a joint is still a popular choice for drug users even with the introduction of numerous other narcotics to Sault Ste. Marie in recent years.

Marijuana use "is probably as much, or more, than it was in the past," said Staff Sgt. Jody Greco, head of Sault Ste. Marie Police Service's drug enforcement unit.

Pot is no longer the major focus of his unit's work with cocaine, crack cocaine, fentanyl, heroin and methaphetamine now present in the community.

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15 CN ON: Top Cops Want Tools To Handle 'Potent' DrugsWed, 28 Sep 2016
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Kelly, Brian Area:Ontario Lines:92 Added:09/29/2016

City police brass want more training, and equipment, for officers to deal with potentially hazardous narcotics.

Fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamines are increasing in popularity among drug users, said Deputy Chief Sean Sparling during a Sault Ste. Marie Police Services Board meeting Tuesday at Civic Centre.

They're all "very potent," especially powdered fentanyl.

"It's also dangerous for the officers to handle," Sparling told The Sault Star following the meeting's open session. "We have to be very mindful of how we're seizing the stuff."

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16 CN ON: Column: Treating 42,000 AddictsTue, 21 Jun 2016
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Gifford-Jones, W. Area:Ontario Lines:88 Added:06/23/2016

Eureka! Last week I reported it was impossible to write this column. I had asked readers to respond to how I believe 42,000 addicts on methadone should be treated. Then my computer developed terminal cancer and I thought all your responses had been lost. Fortunately, the "Geek Squad" resurrected them.

From a Times Colonist reader, "Your suggestion that sending addicts to northern Canada to chop wood caught my eye. I was impressed by your research. The addicts I have known have no interest in getting off methadone and improving themselves. I say, enough of this nonsense. Why not have them chop wood? We all do some form of work to eat."

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17 CN ON: Proper Tools Needed to Nab 'Drug-Impaired Drivers'Fri, 29 Apr 2016
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Verdone, Mike Area:Ontario Lines:123 Added:04/30/2016

With the commitment by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government to legalize marijuana use in Canada comes a host of questions about regulating and restricting the drug, as well as a number of moral concerns.

However, local police are not focused on discussions surrounding the legalization of pot in the country, which the Liberals promised to do during the election campaign last fall.

The job of police is to enforce federal laws.

But the worry in several circles is about safety because many people believe legalizing pot could lead to more marijuana-impaired drivers on the road.

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18 CN ON: Editorial: High Times In CanadaWed, 13 Jan 2016
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Hunt, John R. Area:Ontario Lines:60 Added:01/15/2016

Along with millions of law-abiding Canadians, I may have to make an agonizing decision this year. The federal Liberals have promised to legalize marijuana. If they do, will I try it?

I have avoided the stuff for at least 60 years. I covered courts and crime for nearly 30 years and knew many law enforcers. One cannot run on both sides of the street at the same time so I came down hard on the side of law and order and resisted pot's temptations.

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19 CN ON: Column: Tougher For Kids To Obtain Pot That's LegalizedSat, 24 Oct 2015
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Baranyai, Robin Area:Ontario Lines:62 Added:10/24/2015

A few weeks ago, as an exercise in civic awareness, students at a high school participated in a mock federal election. They predicted a massive Liberal sweep. I wondered if the results had more to do with the prevailing sentiment for change, or Justin Trudeau's campaign promise to legalize marijuana.

In homes with teens, dinner table conversations have no doubt entered new and interesting territory. "If the government makes it legal, can I buy it?"

The short answer is: No. Trudeau hasn't fleshed out the details of how legalized marijuana will be grown and distributed, but he has made clear one of his guiding priorities is to keep it out of the hands of minors. On the campaign trail, Trudeau frequently compared our failed enforcement-based approach with Prohibition, noting kids today can get their hands on marijuana more easily than alcohol.

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20 CN ON: OPED: Addiction Prevention Bests LegalizationTue, 06 Oct 2015
Source:Sault Star, The (CN ON) Author:Robertson, Ken Area:Ontario Lines:88 Added:10/08/2015

I heard Liberal leader Justin Trudeau promoting legalization of marijuana and asked, why aren't Canadian leaders speaking out? As a parent, I have serious concerns. Some may view me, a former police chief, as an ideologue, but I've considered both sides of this issue.

It's said that for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong, and Trudeau's proposal meets this standard.

Public opinion and criminologists have questioned the success of the war on drugs. As a former police officer, I admit it hasn't been a resounding success. The goal was to reduce the supply of drugs and its toll. Police have worked hard, but still, the problem continues.

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