DRUG WAR BRIEFS: Canada Considers Decriminalization
Canada's Justice Minister, a former marijuana smoker, considers following Britain's lead in decriminalizing adult marijuana use and possession; President George Bush's niece goes to jail over a drug charge; the California Supreme Court rules unanimously in favor of protecting medical marijuana patients from prosecution; three North Carolina law enforcement agents are killed in a marijuana surveillance plane crash; San Francisco may begin growing medical marijuana in defiance of federal law; and a Hawaiian newspaper chastises police for ignoring the state's medical marijuana law.
