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for zeke:

http://chealth.canoe.ca/channel_hea...ews_id=30461&news_channel_id=16&channel_id=16
Sex infection gonorrhoea risks becoming "superbug"
Provided by: REUTERS
Written by: Kate Kelland, Reuters
Mar. 31, 2010


LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" - if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.

Catherine Ison, a specialist on gonorrhoea from Britain's Health Protection Agency said a World Health Organisation (WHO) meeting in Manila next week would be vital to efforts to try to stop the bug repeatedly adapting to and overcoming drugs.

"This is a very clever bacteria. If this problem isn't addressed, there is a real possibility that gonorrhoea will become a very difficult infection to treat," she said in a telephone interview.
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Shocking.

Some more breaking news today. They're making a Smurfs movie! The article itself is about how Quentin Tarantino was considered for the voice of Brainy Smurf, but the role went to Jacques Martin instead.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2010/03/31/13419041-wenn-story.html

"Quentin Tarantino won't be joining Katy Perry and Alan Cumming in the new Smurfs movie - talks between the filmmaker and producers have broken down.

The Pulp Fiction director was among the favourites to land the role of Brainy Smurf in the upcoming animated movie.

Sony Pictures Animation president Hannah Minghella says, "There were conversations about it, but it didn't work out."

Perry will play Smurfette, George Lopez Grouchy Smurf, Kevin James Hefty Smurf and Cumming Gutsy Smurf in the new movie.

Hank Azaria will voice the villainous Gargamel, according to the Los Angeles Times."


Also, Anna Paquin has announced she is bi.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2010/04/01/13436246-wenn-story.html

"Actress Anna Paquin has revealed she is bisexual as part of a new celebrity campaign for equal rights."
 
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Toronto's CALM Compassion Club Raided
http://cannabisculture.com/v2/content/2010/03/31/BREAKING-Toronto-Compassion-Club-Raided

A Toronto location of Cannabis As Living Medicine (C.A.L.M.) was raided by police at about 3pm today, according to trusted sources in the area.

"We know so far that over the last hour police are all over the Queens St. location," Chris Goodwin, manager of Toronto's Vapor Central, told Cannabis Culture after the raid started. "They're in the alleys, in the building - a patient that tried to go in was told it was being raided and under police control, and that he couldn't get his medicine there.
 
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I consider myself a fairly right wing guy. Even as a non-toker, societies anti-drug policies are down right stupid.
 
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Agreed. I'm a relatively conservative individual and it's completely archaic the way that police resources are wasted in enforcing laws that no longer have any relevance, all which generate a tremendous black market opportunity for organized crime and criminal syndicates to get rich off of users. Legalize it and tax the living daylights out of it. That's the best policy.
 
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It's completely, and totally, absurd. I understand that legalizing it removes one set of problems, and replaces them with a new set of problems. But what they have been doing instead, sure ain't working.
 
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The biggest thing that bothers me, and remember I think global warming is a socialist plot, is the taxation/outlawing of industrial hemp. If a couple thousand(million?) people want to get stoned every weekend, its certainly none of my business. But with all of the uses for hemp and hemp oil, its a travesty that hemp isn't grown. It would help revitalize the agriculture "industry" first of all. Not to mention how sustainable it is.

Someone should push the cultivation of industrial hemp. Just imagine where we would be today without duPont, Hearst, etc!
 
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Do you think they would end up selling good shit or stems if they did indeed legalize some day?
 
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Just saw a story on "Oaksterdam" on CNBC a while back. Looks like they were selling some pretty prime bud. Not that I know anything about that.

I am curious as to what "problems" legalizing marijuana would cause?

Emptying jails? Freeing up police time so they can worry about real crime? The gov't cashing in on taxation? Economically depressed areas gaining a new industry?

The spin off effect of being able to use hemp for products without the hassle or gongshow of associating it with chronic burnouts and petuli stinking hippies?

People that smoke marijuana already smoke marijuana.

Please don't come back with the "gateway" argument.
 
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God, no. The gateway argument is complete nonsense.

I'm just saying, there are all kinds of logistics to work out. Who makes it? Who sells it? Can you smoke it in public? Can you open a smoking cafe? Do you limit it to a certain district?

Amsterdam has it right, but if Toronto was added to the list, all kinds of people and associated issues would flock here. Smuggling to the U.S. would become a bigger problem.

And don't get me wrong, emptying jails, getting cops to look for real criminals and utilizing hemp are all huge benefits that I have been in favour of for years. Just saying, legalization would bring a new set of problems with it. Are they hella-preferable to the problems of the current policy? Hell yes.
 
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axlsalinger said:
God, no. The gateway argument is complete nonsense.

I'm just saying, there are all kinds of logistics to work out. Who makes it? Who sells it? Can you smoke it in public? Can you open a smoking cafe? Do you limit it to a certain district?

Amsterdam has it right, but if Toronto was added to the list, all kinds of people and associated issues would flock here. Smuggling to the U.S. would become a bigger problem.

And don't get me wrong, emptying jails, getting cops to look for real criminals and utilizing hemp are all huge benefits that I have been in favour of for years. Just saying, legalization would bring a new set of problems with it. Are they hella-preferable to the problems of the current policy? Hell yes.
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Man, **** the US. All of the American guns that end up coming across the border and killing people in Canadian streets because of their looney tunes gun laws are a far bigger problem than potentially more pot getting shipped down to the States.

Still, if any Canadian government does decide that they want to legalize marijuana, you can bet that the United States will be the biggest obstacle in the way of that goal. They would use every diplomatic and economic weapon in their arsenal to stop it from happening.
 
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actually, it IS a gateway drug - but only because it's illegal, and the guy who gives you weed has coke on hand as well.

if it was legal, it wouldn't be a gateway drug, just like cigarettes aren't a gateway drug.
 
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