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Marijuana on BC ferries
David Hahn,in another attempt to divert people from his own incompetence in the Queen of the North,sinking,announced that the transportation saftey board alludes to the smoking of marijuana between shifts,on board the vessel.Mr. Hahn doesn't mention these people are liveaboard crew and have no where to go between shifts.As a shift is 6-8 hours,with breaks of at least that length,I'm sure that if they bid smoke it would be before bed and if they were still impaired when it was again time to work,get me some of that pot.Mr.Hahn's immediate reaction was to throw out the charter and supreme court descisions on the subject and introduce mandatory drug testing.As I don't have to point out,pot shows possitive for a month so testing would prove nothing other than someone was downwind of a reefer in the last 30 days.This is Amstercouver,good luck.
Vancouver police COP unit
Sgt. rennie,of Vancouver's new "chronic offenders untit",wants to force addicts into treatment and if they don't show progress,or have no interrest in taking the same old treatment programmes again,he wants to lock them up indefinatley. I guess sgt.Rennie must be new or just tired but he has to know such programmes as the "new",drug court and mandatory minimus have been done to death in the US and other countries as well.If there's anyone out there that can enlighten me on what was done in New York that cleaned up the streets there,we could sure use the info to try to argue with some degree of knowledge,what it was that happened there.I'm convinced,after 40 years of dealings with this kind of tactics that there was som bad shit went down.You can post comments or mail me at@ sicntired@mac.com
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