Legal information
“Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped ... Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous ... Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases... Police are losing the drug battle worldwide."
Raymond Kendall
secretary general of INTERPOL, January 1994
cannabis day july 1st 2008 Vancouver BC
where?........
This is a world map stating the legality of cannabis for different regions.
blue=legal/essentially legal
light blue=decriminalised
orange=illegal but often unenforced
red=confirmed illegal
pink=probably illegal
black=varies by region
grey=no information
* Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan, U.S. President (1980-1988)
Why?........
* Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marihuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marihuana.
Jimmy Carter, U.S. President in a message to the U.S. Congress (1977)