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THE MEDIA DEBATE 2004
THE ISSUE: CANNABIS IN CANADA
| CURRENT CLIMATE
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CURRENT CLIMATE: CULTURE
- The
Mainstreaming Of
Marijuana
- Nation
Of Pot Users To Celebrate
Monday
- Potheads
Ready To Roll On Day They
Call 4:20.
- Pot
Smokers Celebrate Holiday Their
Own Way so Canada Day becomes Cannabis Day in some parts of our
culture, and other popular pot
events just keep growing,
- Homegrown
Scores At Cannabis
Cup
- Police
Yank Hemp Mascot Out Of
Parade
- Medical
Marijuana Advocates Raising
Awareness at Lawrencetown Event The
First Atlantic Hemp Fest has
out-grown its initial venue size. In doing so, its organizers
overcame a giant hurdle in
securing a larger venue at short notice.
- Two
Arrested at Pro-Marijuana Rally
in Toronto
- We
Smoke More and Want It to Be
Legal: Canadians are smoking pot more than ever
before and the majority want
police and government to leave people to indulge in peace.
- Medical
Marijuana Advocates Raising
Awareness at Lawrencetown Event The
First Atlantic Hemp Fest
has
- Arrests
at Protest Red Deer RCMP
arrested two people and hauled at least one of them away in handcuffs
during the annual
demonstration in City Hall Park The young people said police treated
them like criminals and wasted
time in cracking down on a peaceful gathering. "It's a waste of
people's tax money and the
police resources,
- Vancouver
'Pot Block' Goes Up In
Smoke.
- Legalize
it, Ex-Cop Tells Hill Pot
Rally "When I speak to police officers on
a one-to-one basis, they
almost always agree with me that the war on drugs is a dismal failure,"
- Pot
Users' March Urges Legalization
Of Drug
- B.C.
Bud Goes Cheap Here As Supply
Exceeds Demand A pound of pot grown in the
province fetched $2,200 to
$2,600 two years ago... Now, the price has dropped to as low as
$1,500
- Beavis
And Berton
- Bomb
Threat On Ferry Goes Up In
Smoke Upon Investigation What was thought
to be a bomb threat on a
ferry sailing out of Tsawwassen was really just a case of two guys
trying to find a private place
to smoke a joint.
- High
Everybody! Over the past 13 years, the number of
Canucks aged 15 or older who admit to using marijuana
or hashish has nearly doubled, according to a report released yesterday
by Statistics
Canada.
- Pot
Preferred To Booze More 15-year-olds have
tried marijuana than have
experimented with a night of
drinking, a national survey of Canadian teens shows. but even
one of our oldest and dearest
Canadian icon weighs in,
- Marijuana
Use Doubles / 57% Back
Legalization
- Berton's
Advice: Go Ahead And
Inhale At 84, He Rages Against 'Stupid'
Marijuana Laws
Prohibition is really working, eh?
- Tax the
Stoners If you had any
lingering doubt that the push to legalize marijuana is no longer
limited to left-wing activists and
aging hippies, a report this week from the Fraser Institute should
erase it
- Businessman
Pushes Paper During The
Day, Pot At Night
- Weed
Grower Gets Out Of Jail, Goes
Directly To Board Games
- Canada's
Guru Of Psychedelia Dies At
Age 86 . Sadly, brilliant psychiatrist Dr. Humphry Osmond,
Da Kine Smoke and Beverage Shop - Persecuting
pot people:
- Vancouver
Cafe Offers Pot To Its
Patrons 'Nothing Criminal About
Cannabis' A Vancouver cafe
operator who offers marijuana on her menu says people need a crime-free
method of getting the weed
and she's going public to raise awareness on the issue.
- Vancouver
Store Pulls Marijuana Off
Shelves Da Kine Smoke and Beverage Shops
Inc has been openly selling
marijuana for four months has temporarily removed its illegal-drug
inventory as it fears a police
raid... vowed to resume selling pot and hashish today via the Canadian
Sanctuary Society, whose
mandate is to make medicinal marijuana available in a safe
environment.
- City
Considers Options As Store
Sells Pot Again council to suspend or revoke the
licence of the Da Kine
Smoke
- Pot
Cafe Enjoys Brisk Business,
Loyal Customers At 5 p.m. on a Friday, Da
Kine cafe is one of the
busiest shops in the city.
- Second
Store Puts Pot On The
Menu
- Councillors
Mellow About Pot Cafe on
The Drive
- You
Didn't Read About Da Kine Here
First
- Vancouver
Out Of Line On Pot, BC
Solicitor General Warns Rich Coleman says it is
unacceptable for marijuana to
be openly sold in Vancouver stores
- Police
Raid Cafe That Sold Pot,
Arrest Six People Dozens of Vancouver police
officers arrested six people
Thursday evening in a raid on a busy Commercial Drive cafe that openly
sold marijuana.
- Pot
Cafe Reopens Day After Raid Less than one day
after a police raid on Da Kine
Cafe, a new load of marijuana
was delivered and business was brisk as customers lined up to buy, roll
and smoke B.C.
bud.
- Pot
Cafe Has Restocked And Sold Out
Again In Days Since Police Raid
- Gov't
And Police Pushing A New
Reefer Madness
- Employees
at Pot Cafe Out of
Jail
- Ho Hum
A City Shop Sold Pot
- Pot
Society Founder Back In Jail Donald Briere Faces
Marijuana Trafficking Charge
- Owner
Back In Custody After Pot Cafe
Reopens, Bail Carol Gwilt, owner of the
controversial Vancouver cafe that's
doing brisk sales in marijuana, was re-arrested Thursday afternoon on a
charge of breaching her
bail conditions.
- Cafe
Owner Orders Staff To Stop
Selling Marijuana Carol Gwilt says the cafe on
Vancouver's trendy Commercial
Drive will stop selling marijuana. "I'm directing my staff at the
Da Kine Smoke Shop to stop
selling cannabis,"
- Owner
Of Pot Cafe Denied Bail, Could
Be Held For Months
- Da
Kine Closes Its Doors For
Good The cafe that had been selling sides of
marijuana with its food has
closed its doors for good.
Up In Smoke Cafe:
- Up In
Smoke
- Cops
Should Butt Out
- Woman,
70, Arrested at Pot Cafe
- Granny
Gets Off On Pot
Charge
- Proprietors
Promote Pot
Peace
Vancouver Province reporter Jon Ferry goes on a
one man crusade:
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Last Modified:Sunday, 16-Jan-2005 00:29:00 PST
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