Mckeen, Scott 1/1/1997 - 31/12/2024
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1 CN AB: Column: Hemp Making A Comeback Despite Idiotic Pot LawsFri, 06 Nov 2009
Source:Edmonton Journal (CN AB) Author:Mckeen, Scott Area:Alberta Lines:136 Added:11/06/2009

The symptoms and side effects of reefer madness are now clearer than ever.

Politicians, even those who never inhaled, suffer paranoid delusions. Over the past century, Canada's ludicrous and draconian marijuana policies wasted billions in criminal-justice resources.

Crime gangs got rich and recreational marijuana users--about as dangerous as contented cats--were fined and jailed by the thousands.

But that's only half of it. What we now know is that the government's marijuana paranoia cost this country a cash crop of boundless potential.

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2 CN BC: Column: Pot-Smoking Nudist Sells Melons on the BeachFri, 23 Jan 2009
Source:Edmonton Journal (CN AB) Author:McKeen, Scott Area:British Columbia Lines:108 Added:01/23/2009

Even in recession, the world remains full of opportunity.

For example, have you ever considered a rewarding career in naked fruit vending?

Or marketing your own line of cannabis cookies, naked?

Never crossed your mind? Me neither. I have no aptitude for nudity. I always forget to take off my socks.

But without further delay, let me introduce someone with a nice set of aptitudes, Mary Jean Dunsdon, who is at once an entrepreneur, marijuana activist and nudist.

Her story is so quintessentially Canadian. Without the socks. Dunsdon was born in Cold Lake. Her mother was a macrame maven; her dad an Armed Forces fighter pilot. After high school, the army brat moved to Vancouver to study theatre.

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3 CN AB: Column: Crime-Prevention Means Solving Problems, Not Building JailsFri, 03 Oct 2008
Source:Edmonton Journal (CN AB) Author:McKeen, Scott Area:Alberta Lines:115 Added:10/03/2008

Glass Pyramid's Police-Budget Talks Should Revolve Around More Addictions Counsellors, Social Workers And Treatment Centres

Oh, how the phones did ring angrily at City Hall the year council cruelly cut the budget for civic flower planting.

It was as if civic politicians took away caffeine or hockey from the citizenry.

One could imagine the city managers of the day secretly sniggering and high-fiving each other as the citizen protest grew. They had successfully pulled off what is known under the glass pyramids as the Barney the Bear gambit.

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4 CN AB: Kassandra Had The Determination To Pull Herself BackFri, 22 Feb 2008
Source:Edmonton Journal (CN AB) Author:McKeen, Scott Area:Alberta Lines:126 Added:02/22/2008

Quitting Drugs Was Tough For 16-Year-Old, But Life Is Looking A Lot Better Now

Scott McKeen The Edmonton Journal We were all wounded. We were all survivors of the shipwreck adolescence.

At age 16, Kassandra Langvand's wound is still fresh. Sometimes, she fears that her past defines her. We probably thought that, too.

Kassandra is tall and graceful, sensitive and shy. At the moment, she is cleaning tables and serving coffee at the Kids in the Hall Bistro in City Hall. Coaxing a smile out of her is worth the effort.

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5 CN AB: Column: Few Degrees Of Separation Between Auto TheftWed, 28 Jun 2006
Source:Edmonton Journal (CN AB) Author:McKeen, Scott Area:Alberta Lines:105 Added:06/28/2006

Mine is an Apple PowerBook laptop computer, company issue, a sleek and elegant writing machine in metallic silver.

In the wrong hands -- smash-and-grab hands -- such a thing is worth a few days of cocaine rapture or crystal-meth oblivion.

Last Friday, I left my laptop on the front seat of my car, in its case, on an inner-city street. This week, I learned just how lucky I was. Edmonton Police Chief Mike Boyd invited people from government, business and the media to participate in a day-long community crime congress on an issue, theft from autos, that at first blush seems beneath contemplation.

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6 CN AB: Column: Prof Focuses On Problem Of Meth UseFri, 09 Dec 2005
Source:Edmonton Journal (CN AB) Author:McKeen, Scott Area:Alberta Lines:120 Added:12/13/2005

Family Dynamics Seen As Key To Her Research

Feelings of personal discomfort always come up when I admit I smoked pot. Not because I did it. Everyone I knew did it. My discomfort is in giving the false impression I was somehow radical or rebellious in my youth.

Really, I only smoked pot -- and rarely -- to avoid looking the dweeb. I was too afraid of being caught by the cops; too much the control freak to get really stoned.

Booze? Well, that's a different story. A story for another day. But in recent years, I've told my children all about my vices and failings. Never made myself out to be either rebel or paragon.

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7 CN AB: Program Helps Reduce Disease: 835,000 SyringesMon, 21 Oct 2002
Source:Edmonton Journal (CN AB) Author:McKeen, Scott Area:Alberta Lines:52 Added:10/23/2002

The proof of the success of Streetworks, the agency running Edmonton's needle exchange program, is the 835,000 needles it distributed last year, advocates say. That's equivalent to more than one for every resident in the city. "It doesn't mean that Edmonton has a worse drug problem than other cities," said Program Manager Marliss Taylor. "It shows that they [intravenous drug users] are coming to us."

The project has been around more than 10 years in Edmonton and has evolved over time, Taylor said. The needle exchange is now augmented with front-line health services, education and referrals for clients.

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8 CN BC: Cannabis 'Good,' Ecstasy 'Bad'Sun, 01 Jul 2001
Source:Province, The (CN BC) Author:McKeen, Scott Area:British Columbia Lines:143 Added:07/02/2001

BANFF -- Some people who frequent upper-altitude resorts such as Whistler and Banff like to get high in other ways, too.

So it was fitting that an international group of drug experts gathered in Banff last month for a conference hosted by the Canadian College of Neuro-psychopharmacology, an umbrella group of researchers who study the impact of drugs -- recreational and medical -- on the brain.

According to some of the experts, attitudes towards mood-altering substances can be not only hypocritical, but absurd.

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