THE MEDIA DEBATE 2004
THE ISSUE: CANNABIS IN CANADA
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CURRENT
CLIMATE:
GOVERNMENT
Legislature:
- Government
Reintroduces Marijuana
Bill
- Pot
Bill Bans
Police Sharing Of Info
Abroad.
- Pot
Bill Goes
Up
In Smoke On Last Day To Pass
- Cities
Pushing For Their Share Of Crime
Proceeds Federally, the assets can be
seized through proceeds of crime
legislation enacted in 1989. Usually, the criminal code offenses
are drug-related, and a
small portion is shared with the provinces to help cover policing costs.
- Liberals
Unveil Pot Bill for
Second Time
- Hiebert
Rejects Lenient Pot Bill
An Election Issue
- Marijuana
Use
Persistent, Recurring
Issue The Vancouver Sun
will focus on an issue
important to British Columbians every day during the campaign.
Today we look at how the
political parties wrestle with reforming laws related to
marijuana.
- NDP
Have High
Hopes for Marijuana
Advocate Beyond the NDP view of
medicinal marijuana, Myrden was
impressed by party leader Jack Layton, and the party's advocacy of
same-sex marriage and a clean,
sustainable environment.
- Marijuana
Party Gets Campaign
Rolling With Seed
- Pot
Infighting On The Campaign Trail
- Cannabis
Leaflet Has NDP Smoking
Mad.
- Frightening
Hypocrisy
- Tory
Government Would Be A Step Back For
Canada's Drug Policy ,
The Senlis Council argued
a Conservative government would not support harm reduction policies,
nor would it decriminalize
possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- Michael Moore
hopes
Canada doesn't vote Conservative
- Nader
appeals to
Cdns not to vote Conservative
- Tory
'Sentencing Reform' Would Lead
To More Injustice Two of
the five proposals under this
heading are proposals for mandatory sentences. A third proposal
would prevent a judge from
imposing a conditional sentence -- house arrest -- for certain
categories of
- Shut
Out When
Smoke Clears
- Baldasaro
Steps Into City's Political
Spotlight One More Time
Courts and Legal Data:
- Driver
In
Deadly Crash Not Guilty Of
Driving While Influenced By Pot A young Langley
man was convicted yesterday of
dangerous driving causing the deaths of two 16-year-old passengers, but
was acquitted of driving
under the influence of marijuana.
- Pot
Party's Leader Pledges
Constitutional Challenge ... plans to
contest the constitutionality of
the country's pot laws... it was coincidence his court appearance took
place during the federal
election ...
- 'Pockets
Are
Private,' Supreme Court
Rules Police can no longer go on "fishing
expeditions" by searching people
they stop on the street without reasonable grounds to suspect that they
pose a safety threat...
- Top
Court Asked To Revisit Key
Pot Ruling
- Supreme
Court Limits Search Of
Suspects Supreme Court says its decision speaks
for itself and won't be expanded on.
- Surveillance
Method Ruled
Unconstitutional, so none of the evidence
presented by the prosecution was
admissible as the RCMP had infringed on the defendants' rights against
unreasonable search and
seizure....while the prosecution brought forward 72 phone calls they
deemed relevant to the case,
the RCMP recorded about 16,000 phone calls over a five-month period.
"This is not walking on a
technicality,"
- Court
Gives Green Light On
Infrared
- Charges
Dropped Against Marijuana
'Compassion Club'
- Medicinal
Marijuana Argument Fails to
Sway Red Deer Court
- Search
of
Car Containing 22 Pounds of
Pot Violated Charter Police cannot detain
someone simply because they
fit the so-called "profile" of a drug courier, the Ontario Court of
Appeal has ruled.
- Marijuana
Trafficking Charges
Dismissed Against Two Men
- Drug
Charges
Stick Despite Illegal
Arrest
- Judge
Has
Mind Of Her Own On Pot
Sentence ...gives pot grower a stiffer sentence
than even the Crown prosecutor
had asked for.
- 'Wreak
Beach Pin-up' Acquitted
Of Trafficking In Pot-Laced Cookies
- Courts
Asked
to Wait for Marijuana
Decriminalization
- Major
Marijuana Charges Dismissed After
Key Mix-up
- Drug
Charges
Laid Against Basi The former ministerial aide who
was a focus of December's police raids on the B.C.
legislature was charged Wednesday with two drug offences.
Remember the raids on the BC
legislature in December 2003? There was some movement, but still no
answers.
- Former
Collins Aide To Appear In Court
On Marijuana
- Marijuana
Party Candidate Takes Police
To Court For Seizure Of Growing Equipment
- Few
Drug Users Going To Jail,
Statscan Finds but even 12-per-cent of adults is too many ending up
in prison for a victimless
crime so lawmakers can send a message to children.
- Majority
Of
Drug Busts Target Small
Fry Of 93,000 Incidents In 2002, More Than Half
Are Pot Possession
- Drug
Busts
Just Tip Of Iceberg ,
"These are drugs that don't make it to the
streets. ... The only scary
part is the more we're finding, the more we know we're only scratching
the surface
- Prison
Locked Down after Marijuana
Find 2.5 ounces of marijuana in the exercise yard
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