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		<title>The Emergence of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald MacPherson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to 2012 which I hope will be a great year full of positive change and forward movement towards creating a better world and better drug policies for Canada. Here we go! It has been a while since I have been able to get to my own personal blog as I have been crazy busy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Curious Priority for the Government of Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald MacPherson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Harper government says fighting crime is a priority for Canadians and an omnibus crime bill will be introduced in the first 100 days this parliament. This bill will cost taxpayers billions of dollars in increased prison, courts and policing costs with no evidence that these expenditures will lead to safer communities. This poll suggests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter from the Scientific Community to all Parliamentarians on Bill S-10</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald MacPherson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am working with a number of Canadians to birth a new drug policy organization, actually more of a collaboration among those interested in advancing new approaches to respond to drug addiction and the illegal drug trade. There are a great many people out there who want some real change in the way we approach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resilience and Drug Policy &#8211; Why not accept the natural process of change?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 06:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald MacPherson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  have been away from the day to day of working at the City of Vancouver for about a year now and have enjoyed the opportunity to immerse myself in new and exciting things like hanging out in Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Prince Edward Island (ah the taste of Lobster fresh from the sea!) and spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginning of the End of the &#8220;War on Drugs&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald MacPherson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, July 18 &#8211; 23 marks an important moment in the history of drug policy that might just be the beginning of the end of the &#8220;War on Drugs&#8221;. The policy document that will be the centre piece of the conference is the Vienna Declaration which calls on governments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demon Drugs, Globalization and Belonging</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald MacPherson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is good reason to sign the Vienna Declaration which was the subject of my last post, especially if you consider Professor Bruce Alexander&#8217;s analysis of the nature of addiction and his compelling examination of why we have it tragically wrong in our current war on drugs approach to drug addiction. Below is Professor Emeritus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Sign the Vienna Declaration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald MacPherson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A major focus of the International AIDS Conference in Vienna this July 18 &#8211; 23 is the prevention of HIV as a result of injection drug use within the context of criminalization of drugs. The enforcement of global drug prohibition policies has been shown to make it difficult for people who inject drugs to access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to MaRS in Search of a New Canadian Drug Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald MacPherson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My quest for A New Drug Policy for Canada has taken me to the wonderful MaRS Discovery District in Toronto for Net Change Week, a week of exploring technology for change and thinking outside the box, as they say, with social and technology innovators from around the world. MaRS, as their website says, began with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Live!  Canada Needs a New Drug Policy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald MacPherson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my blog on drug policy. Putting this blog up is a logical next step for me after two decades of working in municipal government, with partners in the community and senior governments and experts from around the world in an attempt to mount a response to the urgent public health crisis in Vancouver’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Heroin Trials Show Positive Results</title>
		<link>http://donaldmacpherson.ca/2010/05/british-heroin-trials-show-positive-results.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 17:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald MacPherson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in my last post I want to write about the unique ability that the Swiss have to hold in balance the needs of those who use drugs and become severely addicted and those Swiss citizens who want peace and quiet in their neighbourhoods and less disorder caused by the illegal drug market. But [...]]]></description>
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