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AUGUST 15, 2018 | Volume 31, No. 65
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LEGALIZATION
TRU moves to outlaw cannabis use
Proposal would see pot use banned on campus while alcohol and tobacco remain allowed TIM PETRUK STAFF REPORTER tim@kamloopsthisweek.com
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hen cannabis use is legalized on Oct. 17, don’t bother lighting up on the campus of Thompson Rivers University. The institution has taken steps to ban cannabis use on campus while declining to take a similar stance on alcohol or tobacco. A draft university policy on alcohol, cannabis and tobacco lists recreational cannabis use as “prohibited,” while allowing for medicinal use provided the user can produce a prescription from a “qualified physician.” Drinking alcohol in licensed premises and smoking tobacco in designated areas would be allowed under the proposed policy. TRU spokeswoman Darshan Lindsay said the university hopes to have a policy in place before cannabis legalization in October. She said the school reached out to other universities before crafting its draft policy. Minutes of a meeting of TRU’s joint health and safety committee from March show a unanimous vote to classify marijuana an “intoxicant” and ban its use on campus. Pat Barringer, trades instructor and co-chair of the committee,
Crews search for woman missing after mudslide Debris caused lengthy closure of area highways KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK
TIM PETRUK/KTW If a new draft policy on alcohol, cannabis and tobacco use at Thompson Rivers University goes ahead, not much will change for cigarette smokers and beer drinkers — but cannabis users would be banned from lighting up on campus.
said his concerns regard student safety. “My problem with this is I work with machinery in the trades building,” he said. “There’s no way in hell you can smoke pot or drink beer and then operate machinery.” Psychology professor Chris Montoya, another member of the committee, also expressed safety concerns. “A student cannot get drunk
LANGUAGE In addition to outlawing cannabis use on campus, TRU is also moving to ban words including “bash,” “drunk,” “kegger,” “wipeout,” “blackout” and “rager” from any marketing for university or on-campus events
walking next to another student drinking a beer,” he told KTW. “However, students, staff and faculty can get stoned breathing
in second-hand smoke.” Lindsay said the school is treating cannabis differently than alcohol because of safeguards that are in place for drinkers. “Really, the difference is that there are currently, in terms of alcohol, some significant systems in place to control sale and consumption,” she said. “Those systems don’t exist for cannabis. It is a new area.” See PROPOSED, A4
Emergency crews are searching for a missing person believed to have been in a vehicle washed away during a mudslide near Cache Creek on Saturday. The accident occurred in the 3300-block of Highway 99 at about 5 p.m., RCMP Sgt. Janelle Shoihet told KTW. “At this point we’re still trying to get in touch with that person’s family in order to be able to release the specifics,” she said. Valerie Morris, 57, is missing after apparently being washed away in the slide. Morris and her husband were driving along the highway when the mudslide hit. Her husband, who was driving, escaped the vehicle but Morris has not been seen since the incident. Highway 1 was closed 23 kilometres west of Savona on Saturday, but has since been reopened in both directions. Motorists are asked to watch for debris.
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