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Criminals are using the darker corners of the internet, hard-to-track digital currency and creative shipping techniques to sell illicit guns to Canadians, the RCMP warns.

The 2015 book Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, is a New York Times bestseller. It's also a scathing account of the trillion dollar, global drug war's many policy failures. The book’s author, Scottish-born journalist Johann Hari, has traveled to over 18 countries to investigate drug criminalization.

Newly released court documents say a Canadian teen who pleaded guilty in a terror plot to attack New York City landmarks has suffered from drug addiction and mental health issues.

The number of cannabis-related offences reported to police declined for the fifth straight year, Statistics Canada said as it released its annual report on police-reported crime.

"We’re standing alone. I’m not afraid of that and I’m not anything but proud of the fact we’re willing to do that," Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister told reporters.

"I feel it’s something we need to be doing something about faster than we are doing it," Hedy Fry, the longtime Liberal MP for Vancouver Centre, said in an interview.

There is no standardized, countrywide protocol for how overdoses are categorized, nor is there a consistent timeline for reporting, say experts.