Tag: drugs
Eisenkraft Klein: Why turning a blind eye to psychedelic drugs is the wrong approach
Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, University of Toronto On Nov. 3, police raided three Vancouver magic mushroom dispensaries and seized tens of thousands of dollars worth of psilocybin and other psychedelics. One store has already reopened, with the owner saying the other two will reopen soon. Psychedelics remain predominantly illegal in Canada. But storefronts advertising psychedelics are […]
Rebecca’s story: Addiction, striving, stigma and death
While ham and turkey cooked in Rebecca Morris-Miller’s parents’ home for Thanksgiving, the dining room table was covered with NORS drug helpline T-shirt transfers and water bottles, rather than being set for dinner. What was Morris-Miller’s priority – the National Overdose Response Service — is now her Owen Sound family’s. She co-founded what became a […]
Letters to the Editor: September 29, 2023
Rehab would be better than hubs
Appeal court overturns 2020 drug convictions of area senior
In the middle of her second drug trial involving police searches of her rural west Middlesex County property, Vivian Lee Hamilton had already successfully appealed her convictions in her first trial.
Woman pleads guilty in $13K fentanyl, meth trafficking case
A Sarnia woman who admitted that nearly $13,000 in fentanyl and crystal meth police found last fall was for trafficking may not learn her fate until next spring.