Four former Vancouver City Mayors have recently seized the headlines with a letter demanding that we legalize marijuana. Last night, the current mayor followed suit in a well-thought-out, less than 140 characters, Twitter statement. We offer two items below. The first is a position paper written by our Vice President, Chuck Doucette. The second is a position paper by the International Task Force on Strategic Drug Policy. Marijuana: Is legalization

DPNC Director Al Arsenault shared with us this powerful and ugly story of how a controlled narcotic is marketed, sold and then re-distributed through criminal activity here in Canada. The piece was written by Tom Blackwell for the National Post. Read it in its mind-boggling entirety HERE.

The Orchard Recovery Centre, who were well-represented by E.D. Lorinda Strang and Communications Director, AnnMarie McCullough, at our DPNC November 16th Conference held at Pacifica, have shared with us their latest newsletter. You can find the entire piece on our DPNC BLOG, listed under the menu heading, LINKS. This is exactly the kind of sharing of information – especially great stories of Prevention and Treatment – that we welcome form