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Current Affairs 2005 - Propaganda (81 items)
| Sep 29, 2005 | City Hiring More Police City council has approved the hiring of two police officers under a provincial officer partnership program. The two officers will tackle the issues of youth and organized crime, marijuana grow-ops and methamphetamine labs.
[More jobs for cops... isn't that what prohibition is all about and why they lobby so intensely for it?] |
| Sep 27, 2005 | Families Of Slain Mounties Seek Harder Drug Law The family members, still scarred by the shooting deaths of the officers by a violent outcast near Mayerthorpe, Alta., called on the government to scrap the marijuana bill and introduce mandatory minimum jail sentences for those who grow cannabis on a commercial scale.
[How unfortunate that the families of the slain Mounties would exploit their deaths to lobby for tougher sentences on cannabis and organized crime, particularly when the garden was incidental to the police being called in to assist in a car repossession.
Instead, the families should be demanding an investigation into why the police brass chose to send the victims to assist at the residence of a "cop-hater" without appropriate precautions which could have possibly spared their lives, especially when full-geared SWAT teams are sent in to take down an individual tending a few plants. That is the real issue that gets clouded over in the rush to further demonize cannabis.
It is also unfortunate that many professions have much higher on-the-job fatalities than police work, yet this is never acknowledged. See: Pot & Murder] |
| Sep 25, 2005 | Cannabis: A Harmless Soft Drug? Increasingly potent and widely used, marijuana can wreak havoc on the lives of many people.
While certain effects are still not clearly understood and vary from one individual to the next, the risks connected to marijuana consumption are, nonetheless, very real.
[The risk of being arrested is by far the worse effect of cannabis] |
| Sep 19, 2005 | Dog Search Sends Signal Drugs and alcohol do not belong in a school setting. That's a great message to send to all students in Edson whether or not they attend Parkland Composite High School.
Last Thursday's school search using an RCMP dog will hopefully hammer into students' minds that they shouldn't be messing with drugs. Otherwise, they are messing with their future.
[Have they ever stopped to ask the students exactly what message is being hammered into thier heads with the heavy handed tactics? Didn't think so...] |
| Sep 17, 2005 | Pot Use Puts Parents On The Spot A CAS worker had showed up unannounced at their East Mountain home saying she was investigating Baby Christian's welfare based on this written report filed by Sutthery on Aug. 30: "I, officer Sutthery, had a conversation with the owner of the pot cafe in which Chris Goodwin admitted to using marijuana every day. Goodwin also said his wife uses every day."
With those two sentences, an investigation and a political firestorm were launched.
[Parents are allowed to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes in front of their children, but as usual, all perspective is lost when it comes to cannabis] |
| Sep 9, 2005 | Why European Politicians Are Having Second Thoughts on Pot A handful of British, Dutch, Swedish and New Zealand scientists established connections between adolescent use of marijuana and the development of psychosis and schizophrenia; their studies were cited by both Clarke and Hoogervorst.
[Reefer madness is still alive and well] |
| Sep 6, 2005 | Toking And Driving A Lethal Combination Drug impairment is as dangerous as if you're drinking alcohol." That's the back-to-school message from MADD Canada.
[Most of the driving studies say otherwise] |
| Aug 5, 2005 | US WA: DEA Chief admits politcal persecution in Emery seed case US WA: Column: Pursuit of Drug Case All Smoke, No Fire
Seeking to stop his extradition to the United States -- where he faces charges of trafficking in marijuana seeds -- Emery's legal team could use Tandy's words to telling effect: Their client is being prosecuted for his beliefs.
"Today's arrest of Mark ( sic ) Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement."
"Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on."
[Targeting citizens for their political views and trying to silence them is against the rules.... but when has that ever mattered? Will the government of Canada do the right thing? Not something we could ever count on.] |
| Jun 10, 2005 | CN QU: Pot Industry Was An Open Secret Everyone knew or knew of the 11 local farmers arrested on Wednesday during a massive marijuana bust involving three police forces in two countries.
In every depanneur, the newspapers were sold out by 8:30 a.m., a store clerk said. With every report that said the smuggling ringleaders intimidated local farmers into handing over plots of land to the marijuana growers, men and women scoffed in disbelief.
"It's all exaggerated. They're not the Hells Angels, they're not Al-Qa'ida," said one bar customer, enjoying an afternoon beer.
"This is just a nice big story to sell papers."
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| May 26, 2005 | CN BC: Grow-Rip Scares Retirees "My wife was first out because I was still putting on my clothes and she came back hollering to call 9-1-1, because there's a couple guys kicking in the door to the house next door," said the husband. "And they're yelling back saying not to bother because, 'We're police, we're busting a grow-op.'
[Is it cops? Is it thugs? It is too difficult to tell the difference between cops and robbers these days when it comes to the war on nature] |
| May 25, 2005 | CN ON: Addiction Worker Warns Abuse Is Deadly Ongoing use of marijuana will lead to diseases of the lung such as you get with tobacco because of the high nicotine and THC," said Medulun. (Hotel Dieu Hospital's director of addiction, autism and developmental services)
[So according to this addiction "expert", cannabis has nicotine... the proliferation of junk science and fantasy facts makes it is harder to find the truth about any drug, remedy or treatment.] |
| May 22, 2005 | Angel Linked To Grow-Op A Kelowna-area marijuana grow-op bust provides one of the strongest links yet between the Hells Angels and the illegal pot industry, police say.
[It's not so obvious that this article is not about the angels that watch over home cannabis gardens, but it soon beciomes apparent that it is just more propaganda from the boys in blue] |
| May 18, 2005 | US: Spy vs. Spy United States - Proposed legislation would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, forcing all Americans to become foot soldiers in the war on drugs. Failure to do so would be a crime punishable by a mandatory minimum two-year prison sentence, and a maximum sentence of 10 years.
[If Canadians do not stand up now, this is a glimpse of where we are heading] |
| May 15, 2005 | LTE: Pothead Advice Not Needed Rather than speak of the virtues of cannabis for the victims of, say, glaucoma or chemotherapy nausea, he chooses to promote the recreational and irresponsible use of this stuff. Mr. Paden is pictured puffing on a huge spliff and quoted as saying "I've been smoking this for probably close to an hour" and "I can't walk anymore."
[Hmmm, we don't think twice when a drunk says that..] |
| May 11, 2005 | Abduction Linked To Pot Smuggling Police believe the May 2 kidnapping is related to shipping of marijuana to the U.S., said Abbotsford police Const. Shinder Kirk
"We have seen over the past several years that the drug trade is extremely lucrative, that organized groups, or even unorganized groups, will do anything to protect their trade from competitors," Kirk said. "And marijuana is no exception."
[They forget to mention how prohibition-related crime like this could be avoided...] |
| May 10, 2005 | Police Sweep Of Carter High School Yields No Evidence Of Illegal Drugs Leamington police came up empty-handed after their third drug sweep this year at Cardinal Carter Secondary School.
Leamington officers, assisted by the OPP and its canine unit searched the school Friday, but found no illegal drugs.
[So we can all agree this is more about accustomizing kids to terrorizing authority than drugs?] |
| May 9, 2005 | Dealing Dope in B.C. Is Far From a Victimless Crime To hear some latter-day hippies tell it, marijuana use is a victimless and harmless crime. You buy the substance from your friendly neighbourhood dealer just as you would a carton of cornflakes from your corner grocer.
But a Province news story last week points to a sinister aspect of drug sales in B.C., namely their apparent connection to violent gangs.
[The media constantly mistakes prohibition-realted problems with cannabis-growing problems which makes matters worse,,, and worse...] |
| Apr 21, 2005 | Speaker Warns Students About The Dangers Of Smoking Marijuana Jerome Bouvier, who is paralyzed from the chest down as a result of waterskiing while stoned at the age of 23, brought his anti-drug message to Surrey this week. ..He started smoking pot at age 14. "Pot has a lot of friends," he said, listing cocaine, methamphetamine and acid. "I kept meeting all these friends." By age 19, he said, he couldn't function without cocaine and lost contact with his family.
[There is no mention that tobacco and alcohol are the foremost "gateway" drugs around] |
| Mar 24, 2005 | Editorial: Giving Up The Fight On Pot Not An Option News that British Columbia's indoor pot business is still flourishing is a message to some that it's time to give up the fight over marijuana grow operations.
They claim it's a battle that can never be won; that simple surrender is the only option.
That's a naive suggestion.
[If people who can think logically and rationally are labeled "naive", than it is just as easy to label those who want to ramp up the war on a non-toxic plant, as morons] |
| Mar 19, 2005 | Government Calls For Tough Action On Grow Ops Marijuana grow operations pose a serious threat to our citizens, the law enforcement officers who try to disrupt the illegal enterprises, and the well-being of communities across the country.
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