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UN: UN Lashes Lax Canuck Laws On Pot
Canadian Press Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Sunday 21 Jan 2001 GENEVA -- A United Nations agency has criticized Canada for its lax attitude toward illegal growers of cannabis and failure to control illicit production of drugs. In its annual report released last night, the UN's International Narcotics Control Board says Canadian courts have been handing down sentences to cannabis growers and couriers that essentially amount to a slap on the wrist. DETERRENT Canadian law enforcement agencies make a lot of effort to eradicate cannabis, Herbert Schaepe, the board's secretary, said. But people who illegally grow cannabis "get very, very low sentences and we wonder whether that policy is a sufficient deterrent to get people not to cultivate cannabis." The report singles out cannabis, the plant from which marijuana is derived, as "the most common drug of abuse" in Canada, Mexico and the United States. A major concern to law enforcement agencies is the spread of hydroponically grown cannabis with a high content of THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol. Cannabis is cultivated within Canada with annual production at about 800 tonnes -- 60% of which may be smuggled into the U.S., the report says.
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