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veggie

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Report cites Canada as growing source of illicit drugs in U.S.
#14063476 - 03/03/11 10:19 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Report cites Canada as growing source of illicit drugs in U.S. March 3, 2011 - edmontonjournal.com
Canada has emerged as an increasingly important exporter and transit point for illicit drugs -and partly to blame is the "easy-topenetrate" border, a senior drugs-monitoring official warned Wednesday at the United Nations.
The statement by Melvyn Levitsky of the International Narcotics Control Board comes as Canada is working to resist demands by some members of the U.S. Congress to apply stronger checks along the border.
"The Canadian government and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have done a good professional job (in combating drug trafficking), but the market in the United States is a big one, and the border is a peaceful border which is relatively easy to penetrate," Levitsky told Postmedia News.
Canada's standing in the international league of illicit drug-trafficking countries is detailed in the North American section of the board's 2010 annual report, which Levitsky presented at a news conference.
INCB is the independent and quasi-judicial control organ for the implementation of the United Nations drug conventions.
The report says Canada is self-sufficient in illicit cannabis production, but also provides the United States with a "significant amount" of the homegrown cannabis, some of which is traded for "cocaine and other contraband, such as firearms and tobacco."
Canada also supplies a "significant share" of the international market for methamphetamine. And it continues to be a "major source" internationally of MDMA, a party drug whose street name is ecstasy. Beyond production, INCB says Canada is "increasingly being used as a transit country for cocaine."
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, whose ministry is the umbrella group for the government's anti-trafficking efforts, and Public Safety Minister Vic Toews were unavailable for comment, but their spokespeople said officials had started to study the report.
"Our government is committed to working with the Obama administration to keep our shared border open to trade and investment, but closed to threats to our mutual safety and security," said Chris McCluskey, spokesman for Toews.
Among the latest Canadian government initiatives are one that would impose mandatory sentences on traffickers, and another aimed at improving policing on either side of border waterways.
"If passed in its entirety," McCluskey said of the waterways bill, "this legislation would allow law enforcement from Canada and the U.S. to pursue and arrest criminals regardless of whose side of our shared waterway they are on."
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shivas.wisdom
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Re: Report cites Canada as growing source of illicit drugs in U.S. [Re: veggie]
#14063691 - 03/03/11 10:55 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Obvious Harper gov't propaganda to try and get some of his 'anti-crime' legislation passed...
Canadians party hardy
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The report says Canada is self-sufficient in illicit cannabis production, but also provides the United States with a "significant amount" of the homegrown cannabis, some of which is traded for "cocaine and other contraband, such as firearms and tobacco."
Canada also supplies a "significant share" of the international market for methamphetamine. And it continues to be a "major source" internationally of MDMA, a party drug whose street name is ecstasy. Beyond production, INCB says Canada is "increasingly being used as a transit country for cocaine."
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Re: Report cites Canada as growing source of illicit drugs in U.S. [Re: shivas.wisdom]
#14064748 - 03/04/11 05:14 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah really, go Canada 
The more I hear about it the more I want to visit. I think I'd feel quite comfortable there. Drugs, friendly enviroment, PSYTRANCE :goa:
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