5 tp 10 drops under the tounge takes my pain away.

Tinctures are also great for making THC-infused edibles. Especially those that you can’t use THC-infused oil or butter like candy, ice-cream and other sweets.

Donation Amount:

$60 for one 1/2 ounce bottle.

Donations Amounts:

$60 for an 1/8th

$380 for a ounce

The issue next heads to the Ohio Ballot Board, which will determine whether it should appear on the Nov. 6 general-election ballot as a single issue or multiple issues. Secretary of State Jon Husted set a board meeting for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. If the board approves, supporters will be allowed to begin collecting the 385,245 valid signatures of registered voters necessary to qualify for the ballot.

In October, the Ballot Board approved a similar medical-marijuana ballot issue, the Ohio Alternative Treatment Amendment. Supporters are gathering signatures for that issue.

Either issue, if passed, would allow Ohioans with qualifying medical conditions to buy, possess and grow marijuana for medicinal purposes.

The Medical Cannabis Amendment, certified yesterday, is backed primarily by a group made up of patients seeking pain relief for medical conditions.

The proposed language says Ohioans have “inalienable rights” under the Ohio Constitution, including the right to “be eligible to use cannabis as medicine as a result of a diagnosed debilitating medical condition.” The issue would establish an Ohio Commission of Cannabis Control to regulate medical cannabis in Ohio.

The group’s initial proposal was rejected by DeWine last year because it did not fairly summarize the proposal.

The other issue, the Alternative Treatment Amendment, would allow qualified medical practitioners to prescribe marijuana for patients at least 18 years old with a qualifying medical condition. Patients could obtain up to 3.5 ounces of marijuana at a time and could cultivate up to 12 marijuana plants.

Both proposals are aimed at sufferers with specified medical conditions: cancer, Parkinson’s disease, HIV and AIDS, post-traumatic stress disorder, sickle-cell anemia, glaucoma and others.

Backers of the competing amendments have been unable to agree to work together and decided to move ahead independently.

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have some form of medical-marijuana law.

Information about the Ohio Medical Cannabis Amendment of 2012 is available at: http://www.omca2012.org

Information about the Ohio Alternative Treatment Amendment is at: http://www.ohiommjballot.org/hometop.html

Source: Columbus Dispatch (OH)
Author: Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
Published: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Copyright: 2012 The Columbus Dispatch
Contact: letters@dispatch.com
Website: http://www.dispatch.com/

It is great for pain relief and nausea.

Domation Amounts

$65 for an 1/8th of an ounce
$380 for an ounce

A new poll suggests Canada may have reached the tipping point and a 66-per-cent majority favours legalizing marijuana.

Hallelujah! Finally we might get a sensible public policy discussion in this country about what to do about a relatively benign substance that has been demonized and outlawed for a century yet is as readily available in schoolyards as cigarettes.

The prohibition and a 40-year-long “War on Drugs” have led to pot being more widely accessible, taxpayers considerably poorer, gangs richer and thousands upon thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens branded “criminal.”

Another 50,000 or so Canadians are busted every year for possession; throw in 20,000 or so traffickers and producers and this so-called war is costing us as much as $400 million annually in law enforcement, court and corrections.

Bearing in mind a million dollars a year buys roughly 12 new cops, 14 teachers or public health nurses, ask yourself: Couldn’t all that money be better spent?

The federal Liberal party obviously thinks so – 77 per cent of delegates at the weekend convention voted to legalize the herb, echoing the Senate special committee on illegal drugs (chaired by a Conservative), which 10 years ago urged the government to free the weed. Four decades ago, the LeDain Commission similarly called for an end to the criminal prohibition of cannabis.

Across the country today, more and more people agree.

Conducted Dec. 13 by Toronto-based Forum Research Inc. and released Tuesday, the latest poll of 1,160 respondents 18 or older showed that residents of B.C. were the most likely to support pot-law reform, with 73 per cent wanting change.

Quebec had the lowest support for reforms at 61 per cent.

(The interactive voice-response telephone survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.)

Who’s leading the way? Those aged 55 to 64.

Why? Yes, there are a lot of old hippies. But of all the age cohorts, the middle-aged and elderly, the late-boomers are learning faster than most that marijuana may be the Aspirin of the 21st century.

Medicinal marijuana is changing the debate about pot across the continent.

From cancer patients fighting nausea from chemotherapy to those suffering from glaucoma, Crohn’s disease and other ailments, pot brings therapeutic relief unavailable from pharmaceutical products.

Its growing and widespread use is erasing old stoner stereotypes and triggering a more grown-up adult conversation about the weed.

And money is driving it – not just the prospect of future tax revenue estimated in the billions, but fortunes are being made right now off medical marijuana.

In some U.S. states with med-pot pro-grams, big box stores have opened selling hydroponic gear, specialized equipment and supplies for growers.

The IRS says one single Oakland marijuana dispensary owes $2.5 million in back taxes. Another generates about $18.5 million annually in sales.

There are 16 states that have medical marijuana programs and in the three west coast states, advocates are readying tax-and-sell or other legalization programs.

Ending the criminal prohibition of marijuana does not mean making it freely available – it means regulating it as we do alcohol and tobacco, far more dangerous substances.

Portugal legalized pot and other drugs a decade ago and the sky did not fall: European drug addicts did not flock to the country nor did Spain suffer the feared nasty side effects.

This poll should spur the federal government to rethink its crime legislation and to begin a discussion about different models of legalization.

Recreational pot smoking then could be dealt with as we have battled the much more deadly use of tobacco – with public-health campaigns and education.

No one has gone to jail for taking a cigarette break or been busted for grabbing a quick puff, yet we’ve driven down usage and tobacco has far less cachet today.

The hipster attraction of marijuana can be similarly attacked without exposing our children to criminal prosecution and the risk of a record following them for life.

Let’s treat marijuana and other drugs as a health issue rather than a crime.

It’s cheaper, better for our communities and safer for kids.

It would let police focus on real criminals, ease the burden of overloaded, backlogged courts and save a fortune in expensive legal and penal costs.

Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae summed it up pretty well in his closing speech: “Let’s face up to it, Canada, the war on drugs has been a complete bust.”

Source: Vancouver Sun
Author: Ian Mulgrew
Link: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Hallelujah+Canadians+agree+time+legalize+marijuana/6013181/story.html

OTTAWA — Federal Liberals are taking some risky departures from the cautious political norm in a bid to put their once-mighty party back on the electoral map.

Sunday, they overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for the legalization and regulation of marijuana — a position immediately endorsed in principle by interim leader Bob Rae, although it remains to be seen how, or if, the resolution translates into a platform plank for the next election.

“Let’s face up to it, Canada: The war on drugs has been a complete bust,” Rae declared in a closing speech to a three-day Liberal renewal convention.

Until now, Liberals have called only for decriminalization of marijuana, as has the NDP.  The new call to legalize it completely and regulate its production and sale, much as with alcohol, is in stark contrast to the policy of the governing Conservatives, who included stiffer penalties for marijuana possession in their omnibus tough-on-crime bill.

The legalize-pot resolution came on the heels of another potentially risky gamble for the Liberals.  After a heated debate late Saturday, delegates agreed to invite all liberal-minded Canadians to take part in choosing the party’s next leader.

The party will create a new class of Liberal “supporters” — anyone willing to register as believers in core Liberal values — who will not have to pay a fee for a membership card to participate in leadership contests.

Wrapping up the convention, Rae heralded the two moves as a sign the chastened Liberal party is reaching out and renewing itself after last May’s humiliating rout, when the party was reduced to a third-party rump with only 34 seats in Parliament.

“We Liberals have clearly and emphatically said to the people of Canada: ‘We embrace change and we embrace all Canadians as we rebuild this great national party.’ ”

Delegates further embraced change by choosing Mike Crawley as their new party president.  He beat out Sheila Copps, a veteran former cabinet minister, who some Liberals felt symbolized the past, by a slim 26 votes.

Rae maintained the convention underscores the difference between the Liberals and the more ideologically driven Tories and NDP, whom he described as dogmatic adherents to rigid “orthodoxies.”

“If you want to be part of a group of free-thinking, innovative, thoughtful, pragmatic, hopeful, positive, happy people, come and join the Liberal party,” he exhorted, adding with a chuckle, “And after the resolution on marijuana today, it’s going to be a group of even happier people in the Liberal party.”

Rae told delegates it makes no sense “to send another generation of young people into prison” for marijuana offences when “the most addictive substances that are facing Canada today are alcohol and cigarettes.”

Though they were willing to take some risks, delegates balked at a resolution calling on Canada to consider cutting its ties to the monarchy, an idea that would open a constitutional can of worms.

Both the marijuana and monarchy resolutions were put forward by the party’s youth wing, which argued the Liberal party needs to advance bold ideas that are more reflective of young people if it is to revive.

“I think that there’s a certain amount of generational change happening in the party,” said Samuel Lavoie, president of the Liberal youth wing.

“We’re willing to push the envelope and we have the numbers and we have the willpower to flex our muscles when it’s needed.”

The marijuana resolution is not binding on the leader or party.  Delegates specifically rejected a proposal to remove the leader’s veto over the contents of future election platforms, so there’s no guarantee the party will ever actually campaign on legalizing pot.

Under Jean Chretien’s government, the Liberals introduced legislation to make possession of small amounts of marijuana a ticketing, rather than criminal, offence.

The bill was not pursued when Paul Martin took over the helm of the party and the Harper government has since dropped the idea entirely, moving in the opposite direction.

Delegates also supported reforming the country’s electoral system, agreeing to promote the idea of preferential balloting in federal elections, rather than the current first-past-the-post system.  Preferential ballots, in which voters rank candidates, would ensure that only those who receive more than 50 per cent of the vote in their ridings would be elected to the House of Commons.

If no one received more than half the votes right off the bat, the last-place candidate in a riding would be eliminated, with his or her supporters’ second choices then being tallied.  The process would continue until one candidate emerged with more than 50 per cent.

They also endorsed a non-binding directive that all Liberal nomination contests be open, other than specified exceptions recommended by the leader and approved by the party’s national executive.

Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB)
Copyright: 2012 Winnipeg Free Press
Contact: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/send_a_letter
Website: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/
Author: Joan Bryden

OTTAWA — Federal Liberals are taking some risky departures from the cautious political norm in a bid to put their once-mighty party back on the electoral map.

Sunday, they overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for the legalization and regulation of marijuana — a position immediately endorsed in principle by interim leader Bob Rae, although it remains to be seen how, or if, the resolution translates into a platform plank for the next election.

“Let’s face up to it, Canada: The war on drugs has been a complete bust,” Rae declared in a closing speech to a three-day Liberal renewal convention.

Until now, Liberals have called only for decriminalization of marijuana, as has the NDP.  The new call to legalize it completely and regulate its production and sale, much as with alcohol, is in stark contrast to the policy of the governing Conservatives, who included stiffer penalties for marijuana possession in their omnibus tough-on-crime bill.

The legalize-pot resolution came on the heels of another potentially risky gamble for the Liberals.  After a heated debate late Saturday, delegates agreed to invite all liberal-minded Canadians to take part in choosing the party’s next leader.

The party will create a new class of Liberal “supporters” — anyone willing to register as believers in core Liberal values — who will not have to pay a fee for a membership card to participate in leadership contests.

Wrapping up the convention, Rae heralded the two moves as a sign the chastened Liberal party is reaching out and renewing itself after last May’s humiliating rout, when the party was reduced to a third-party rump with only 34 seats in Parliament.

“We Liberals have clearly and emphatically said to the people of Canada: ‘We embrace change and we embrace all Canadians as we rebuild this great national party.’ ”

Delegates further embraced change by choosing Mike Crawley as their new party president.  He beat out Sheila Copps, a veteran former cabinet minister, who some Liberals felt symbolized the past, by a slim 26 votes.

Rae maintained the convention underscores the difference between the Liberals and the more ideologically driven Tories and NDP, whom he described as dogmatic adherents to rigid “orthodoxies.”

“If you want to be part of a group of free-thinking, innovative, thoughtful, pragmatic, hopeful, positive, happy people, come and join the Liberal party,” he exhorted, adding with a chuckle, “And after the resolution on marijuana today, it’s going to be a group of even happier people in the Liberal party.”

Rae told delegates it makes no sense “to send another generation of young people into prison” for marijuana offences when “the most addictive substances that are facing Canada today are alcohol and cigarettes.”

Though they were willing to take some risks, delegates balked at a resolution calling on Canada to consider cutting its ties to the monarchy, an idea that would open a constitutional can of worms.

Both the marijuana and monarchy resolutions were put forward by the party’s youth wing, which argued the Liberal party needs to advance bold ideas that are more reflective of young people if it is to revive.

“I think that there’s a certain amount of generational change happening in the party,” said Samuel Lavoie, president of the Liberal youth wing.

“We’re willing to push the envelope and we have the numbers and we have the willpower to flex our muscles when it’s needed.”

The marijuana resolution is not binding on the leader or party.  Delegates specifically rejected a proposal to remove the leader’s veto over the contents of future election platforms, so there’s no guarantee the party will ever actually campaign on legalizing pot.

Under Jean Chretien’s government, the Liberals introduced legislation to make possession of small amounts of marijuana a ticketing, rather than criminal, offence.

The bill was not pursued when Paul Martin took over the helm of the party and the Harper government has since dropped the idea entirely, moving in the opposite direction.

Delegates also supported reforming the country’s electoral system, agreeing to promote the idea of preferential balloting in federal elections, rather than the current first-past-the-post system.  Preferential ballots, in which voters rank candidates, would ensure that only those who receive more than 50 per cent of the vote in their ridings would be elected to the House of Commons.

If no one received more than half the votes right off the bat, the last-place candidate in a riding would be eliminated, with his or her supporters’ second choices then being tallied.  The process would continue until one candidate emerged with more than 50 per cent.

They also endorsed a non-binding directive that all Liberal nomination contests be open, other than specified exceptions recommended by the leader and approved by the party’s national executive.

Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB)
Copyright: 2012 Winnipeg Free Press
Contact: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/send_a_letter
Website: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/
Author: Joan Bryden

“I will not issue you any more prescriptions because I’m not going to leave your children orphans.”

When Dawn Jobe heard these words from her doctor years ago, she opted instead for marijuana.

For years, Jobe had consulted specialists and downed countless anti-inflammatory drugs and other pain relievers to treat numerous traffic accident and work injuries.

After alarming results of several liver function tests – blood tests used to help detect liver disease or damage – she was warned she’d have to find an alternative to treat her pain.

“When he told me that I was no longer allowed to use pharmaceuticals, I started using marijuana on a regular basis, and was able to use it the way it’s supposed to be used – for medication,” she said.

Today, Jobe uses the drug to treat her numerous ailments, including fybromyalgia, anorexia, degenerative joint disease, asthma, chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder.

She’s been a medical marijuana patient for five years.

“It’s not for everyone.  Some people may never need or find the use for it,” she said.  “But for a lot of people it’s the only thing that helps.”

However, there is increasing pressure by those in the legal community and officials to regulate or stop the growing of medical marijuana altogether.  Abuses by those alleging they were growing it for medical purposes have pushed officials to seek a crackdown on growing marijuana.

Jobe, 46, and a single mother of two, said she’s researched cannabis for years and says it does more good than harm.

“They’re doing studies all the time about it, and if you really look into it, it’s been used as medication for thousands and thousands of years,” she said.

“It’s just the stigma that our government put on it that has made people shy away from the benefits.”

The drug, she said, only enhances what the human body can do naturally.  She said it helps the immune system, works as an anti-inflammatory, helps with asthma attacks, cures skin cancer and she claims it has been shown to reduce and kill tumors.

“Alcohol kills the person that’s ingesting it.  It destroys the body from the first sip and you have the potential to harm others.”

“There has not ever been one death caused by consuming marijuana,” she said.

Jobe, who is currently unemployed but is a medical transcriptionist, is allowed by her doctor to grow a minimum of six mature plants or 12 immature plants.

She grows them inside a large greenhouse that was built in the backyard of her north Porterville home by several patients who collectively garden with her.

In the past, Jobe had grown in an open area of her backyard, but after several thefts, the group worked together to build a greenhouse large enough to grow the medication and other fresh herbs and vegetables.

Jeff Faure helped build the greenhouse.

Faure, who is single and lives in a one-bedroom apartment, has grown his medication in Jobe’s garden for a year.

“She grows it for me because I have no room to grow, and she needs the help.  She’s not physically able to do the labor,” he said.

The 48-year-old is a third-generation Porterville native and has been using marijuana since he was 14.

It wasn’t until he became a medical marijuana patient that his parents “actually had a fit,” he said.

“I found that it was great for my allergies – I’m allergic to 163 plants and dusts.”

“Before that I was doing steroid shots twice a week, which were very painful.  I haven’t had a shot since,” Faure said.

Now he uses it for several reasons, including chronic pain, migraine headaches and insomnia.  He also uses it in various ways.

“I smoke it, use vaporizers, bongs, joints and pipes.  We eat it, use it as a topical oil, and drink it,” he said, adding that it makes for a tasty medicated pizza or cheesecake.

Brushes with law enforcement

“I have been thieved from.

“And instead of our local law enforcement showing up to help us combat our problem, they spend their time trying to make us the criminal,” Jobe said.

Her encounters with law enforcement, she said, have been unpleasant.

On one occasion, thieves attempted to break into her garden, via her 80-year-old neighbor’s backyard.

The thieves dug a hole and attempted to worm their way under the fence, but fled in fear and left behind a pair of shears and a shovel, Jobe said.

When police arrived, Jobe’s neighbor showed officers the shears, shovel, and even footprints leading to Jobe’s backyard.

“They asked why they wanted to get into my backyard and she told them it was because I was a medical marijuana patient,” Jobe said.

“They looked over the fence and saw my garden and immediately told my neighbor, ‘This is no more than a dog.’”

Officers reportedly rushed to Jobe’s home, pounded on her door and demanded to enter her backyard.

After producing them with her doctor’s recommendations, they insisted on entering her backyard to count her plants and threatened they would obtain a search warrant if she refused.  She did.

The officers reportedly took pictures of her plants from her neighbor’s backyard and never returned with a warrant.

The constant helicopter fly-overs, she said, are embarrassing.

“It’s an all-day, week, and weekend thing.”

Last summer, Jobe counted 20, 15-minute fly-overs in her area, she said.  During one of those fly-overs, she ran inside her home, wrote down the number of plants she had in her garden on a large piece of paper, and held it up for authorities to see.

She said the continual fly-overs are harassment.

“They are not flying at the normal level, they are so low that I could literally thrown a rock at the copter, I could read the numbers clearly on the copter.”

“Every dog in the neighborhood is barking, everybody is outside waving, it’s ridiculous,” she said.

State vs local law

Part of the reason medical marijuana patients in the area have such negative brushes with law enforcement, is the discord between state and local law, Jobe said.

The intent of Proposition 215, or the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, is to ensure that Californians in need of marijuana for medical purposes can obtain and use it without fear of criminal prosecution.

Most recently, the Porterville City Council met to review modifications to the city’s current medical marijuana regulations.

At the Dec.  7 meeting, the city attorney presented the council with the proposed modifications, which, among other things, prohibit dispensaries and collective or cooperative cultivation or processing within city limits.

“Medical marijuana patients want an ordinance.  We are not happy with the fact that we don’t have guidelines by our city and so we’re left to do what the state has told us we’re allowed.  When we do what the state law allows and we have an issue and call our local law enforcement, it’s turned around,” Jobe said.

Faure and Jobe believe the regulations are too strict and say it violates their constitutional rights as medical marijuana patients.

“What the city attorney is trying to do is to make it a crime to be a medical marijuana patient in Porterville,” Faure said.

“We want to help them put together a reasonable program, that basically allows safe access to the medicine these patients need.  Where they don’t have to get the medication off the street, or have to travel outside to get it, or have to grow it inside their home.”

The modifications would also add provisions to the city’s development code requiring cultivation to occur indoors.

If a patient were to violate any of the proposed regulations, the city would be able to impose civil penalties, such as nuisance abatement, City Attorney Julia Lew said during the Dec.  7 meeting.

“We can abate the nuisance and charge for the cost of abatement.  It may not have the same stigma that a criminal citation would have, but we can look at putting in the strongest penalties possible for nuisance abatement,” she said.

“To say this is a nuisance…I don’t understand,” Jobe said about Lew’s comments.

“It’s time people become aware that we aren’t stoners.  We are productive members of society.  We’re doctors, we’re CEOs of companies, we’re mothers, we’re fathers.  We are ill people.”

According to Faure, city officials have agreed to meet next week with a group of medical marijuana patients to discuss the modifications, before the ordinance is brought to the council for a public hearing and possible final adoption.  City manager John Lollis said he expects the ordinance on the agenda at the council’s first regular meeting of February.

“Several cities in California have adopted very reasonable programs that allow access to this medication.” Faure said.

“It’s time for this town, which is the All-American City, to stand up and do what’s right for its citizens – all of its citizens.”

Source: Porterville Recorder (CA)
Copyright: 2012 Freedom Communications Inc.
Contact: http://www.recorderonline.com/sections/editor-form/
Website: http://www.recorderonline.com
Author: Denise Madrid

It is time to think more clearly about cannabis policy.  This is why the Health Officers’ Council of BC ( HOC ) has stepped up with its support for STVBC.  The HOC is not saying that cannabis should be legalized and taxed because is it safe.  Rather, they are saying that proven public health approaches should be used to constrain its use.

The STVBC report makes several clear policy recommendations.

There need to be restrictions on the purchase and use of cannabis.  These could include age restrictions on sales and could impose restrictions on driving and operating machinery while intoxicated, limits on the hours of sale and outlet density, restricted bulk sales and limits on the potency of legal cannabis.  All of these ideas support the public health model to reduce the unintended health and social harms such as drug-related violence and homicide that accompany prohibition.

Government should control the production and distribution of cannabis.  Existing conditional licensing of medical cannabis could be expanded and applied on a larger scale to the regulation and taxation of cannabis.  The system would include strict prohibitions on marketing and branding, standard labelling on content and health realistic health warnings like those for tobacco currently.

Taxation is another tool in the arsenal of a new cannabis policy.  Taxing a product increases its price to the consumer and has been shown to affect consumption levels of alcohol and tobacco.  The price of cannabis could also be kept as high as possible to limit use, but low enough to avoid creating an incentive to produce cannabis for an illegal market.

Other regulatory tools to consider include policies that restrict the location and circumstances of consumption, not unlike current policies on alcohol and tobacco.  The “Dutch coffee shop” model for cannabis should be considered as well.

Prohibition has never worked.  We need only look at current cannabis policy to see that.  Not enough, look back at the efforts of the 1920s and 30s, and look at the results.  There is a better way.  We must consider it.

Learn more about the STVBC report ( and download it ) from their website at www.stoptheviolencebc.org.  Or join the discussion on Facebook or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/stvbc.

Editor’s note: Dr.  Paul Martiquet is the Medical Health Officer for Rural Vancouver Coastal Health including Powell River, the Sunshine Coast, Sea-to-Sky, Bella Bella and Bella Coola.

Source: Coast Reporter (CN BC)
Section: Health Matters
Copyright: 2012 Coast Reporter
Contact: editor@coastreporter.net
Website: http://www.coastreporter.net/
Author: Paul Martiquet

As a senator, Vern White will be called on to give weighty questions a sober second thought – something he already does in Ottawa as chief of police.

White will consider Bill C-10, the omnibus crime bill, which he supports in his current role.

“I can’t speak to it as a future Senator because it would put me in a conflict right now,” he said, adding he will be willing to speak up on the bill once he is sworn in.

The bill includes tougher penalties for growing and possessing marijuana.  White said Canadians should discuss decriminalization, but with caution.  Too often the discussion is oversimplified, he said.  For example, he’s often asked whether a teen should get a criminal record for smoking a joint.

“You can say it, but it doesn’t really happen,” said White.  “If a 15-year-old is getting charged and convicted to marijuana, it’s not a joint.  Either he’s been trafficking in it or it’s secondary to another crime, like an assault.”

The effects of marijuana on mental health should be part of the discourse, as should Canada’s relationship with the United States, he said.

“A large amount of marijuana that’s produced in this country ends up in the United States.  What impact would that have on our relationship with the United States?” he said.

Even if Canada decriminalized marijuana, that wouldn’t impact organized crime trafficking it to the U.S., he added.

White said he is also keen to discuss national security, aboriginal affairs and mental-health issues when he becomes a senator.

Source: Metro (Ottawa, CN ON)
Copyright: 2012 Metro
Contact: ottawaletters@metronews.ca
Website: http://www.metronews.ca/Ottawa
Author: Steve Collins, Metro Ottawa