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Current Affairs 2005 - Reform (115 items)
| Jun 9, 2005 | CN BC: Rival Councillors Agree On Legalizing Pot VANCOUVER - They Say It's Better Than Letting Organized Crime And Dealers Benefit
They agree it's better to legalize marijuana than to keep shovelling money into the pockets of organized crime or to let drug dealers monitor the sale and price.
[One way or another the neo-cons will get their people running the show in Vancouver so the progress made to date in this bubble of rationality and reason can be stopped before it spreads elsewhere] |
| Jun 9, 2005 | CN BC: Editorial: Vancouver Mayor Backs Legal Pot Federal government needs to take a hard look at the best way to manage marijuana
A City of Vancouver report, with the backing of Mayor Larry Campbell, is calling for the legalization of marijuana -- not just "decriminalization" as proposed by legislation stalled in Parliament.
[Larry Campbell is on the Board of Advisors of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)] |
| May 31, 2005 | CN AB: Krieger To Appeal Conviction Controversial marijuana crusader Grant Krieger has won the right to appeal a trafficking conviction to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Krieger, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and uses marijuana to ease his symptoms, is waiting to learn when his case will be heard and expects it will be sometime next year.
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| May 29, 2005 | CN ON: Averse To Pot Laws, Poet Objects In Rhyme A poetic pot activist rhymed out his reasons for battling Canada's marijuana laws at a rally yesterday ...
"There's a little poem I've got, that makes a case for pot. Though a poet I am not, I've given this much thought. Is there hard data? A lot. What's pot's greatest danger? Getting caught,"
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| May 27, 2005 | CN BC: Marijuana Party Candidate Claims Company Fired Him The Marijuana party's Shuswap candidate believes he lost his job because of his election attempt.
"It's all fun and games until somebody loses a job,"
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| May 14, 2005 | Pro-Pot Party Takes School Board, City To Court The party went to B.C. Supreme Court Friday, saying officials of the Surrey school board and the City of Abbotsford have infringed on the rights of its candidates by ripping down the party's signs and banning its standard-bearers from all-candidates meetings.
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| May 12, 2005 | Who's Your Puff Mama? Puff Mama's sunday-night ganja and grub revue headlined by Global Marijuana March MC Watermelon would have impressed Jay Gatsby himself. A warm-hearted med-cannabis baker, Puff Mama - who refuses to use her other name - throws grass-infused, in-the-know fundraisers featuring her delectable edibles and Wayward Comedy Show.
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| May 10, 2005 | Prohibition As part of our ongoing election coverage, the Langley Advance News is providing free space for local provincial candidates to clarify their views on issues facing Langley voters.
Chris Scrimes
Marijuana Party
Prohibition
It is time to end Ottawa's failed criminal prohibition and, instead, to allow the province to regulate and tax the marijuana industry.
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| May 10, 2005 | Pot Party's Participation Called 'Inappropriate' Student voters at Kwalikum Secondary in Qualicum Beach didn't hear a particular voice at yesterday's school forum.
That's because Marijuana party candidate Michael Mann was not invited.
KSS principal Darryl Craig called Mann's participation inappropriate.
[Students learn a lot about so-called democracy..] |
| May 9, 2005 | CN SN: Marijuana Activists Join Global Protest SASKATCHEWAN - Marijuana Activists From Saskatoon Joined A Global Protest Saturday.
About a dozen people marched from Broadway Avenue to city hall Saturday afternoon to raise awareness of what organizers call state-sponsored discrimination.
[Lifting the bonds of oppression has never been an easy task for any group, but perserverence has it's rewards eventually...] |
| May 8, 2005 | Downtown Pot Rally Brings Whiff Of The '60s Close to 3,000 people celebrated cannabis culture as part of the sixth "Global Million Marijuana March," marked in more than 200 cities worldwide.
"We want to see it legalized and decriminalized," said organizer Franklin Skanks. He believes legalizing pot would bring in more revenue via "sin taxes," boost tourism and help shut down organized marijuana grow-ops.
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| May 7, 2005 | With A Bong In His Heart Dominic Cramer is running late.
But when you preside over a growing retail empire rooted in marijuana, being time-challenged comes with the turf. Make no mistake, though, Cramer is no ordinary pothead.
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| May 6, 2005 | Medicinal Pot Users Society Mandate Approved The Okanagan is about to join Nelson, Victoria and Vancouver with the creation of a new society with a mandate to distribute cheap, safe medical marijuana.
Richard Babcock, founder of the Okanagan Compassion Club Society, knows too well the difficulties in obtaining good medical marijuana.
[If the governments med pot program worked, these clubs would be defunct rather than expanding...] |
| May 5, 2005 | CN AB: Global March Supports Effort To Legalize Marijuana Marijuana has been garnering a lot of negative media attention in Calgary recently due to the burgeoning numbers of grow-ops police are busting and concern over organized crime involvement in the industry....But a group of Calgary pot users will be trying to send out a different message on May 7. They'll be participating in Global Marijuana March, a worldwide protest to legalize pot, which first began in New York City in 1996 and has since spread to 37 countries and 181 cities.
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| May 5, 2005 | The Longley And Winding Road Who is Blair Longley?
"I am like a grandfather of the Marijuana Party. I was the first person back in Vancouver in 1987 to get away with publicly cultivating pot and be let off, acquitted, even though I was clearly doing it. There was absolutely no doubt about it, but I was let go. The whole story is very amusing."
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| May 4, 2005 | PUB LTE: Renters Losing Their Charter Rights Of course, child molesters and child abusers can still hide their victims in the home, still safe from inspection and searches, as long as the don't grow pot. It says much about the priorities of our rulers.
So, if you are a renter, it appears that just about everybody has the right to invade your privacy and your home. Big Brother, and doublespeak, are alive and well in Canada.
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| May 3, 2005 | Marijuana Party Joins The Race Nelson-Creston Riding: Just Under The Wire, Philip McMillan Files Papers To Bring Total Names On The Ballot To Four
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| May 1, 2005 | Interview With Dr Andrew Weil There are many reasons to recommend it as a medicine. It's got extremely low toxicity and it's useful for conditions that it manages well like muscle spasms, chronic pain and also lack of appetite that occurs in HIV infections and cancers. The downside of marijuana is that you know most doctors are not very comfortable recommending that patients smoke and the affects are variable from individual to individual. It just seems to me silly to deny ourselves the benefits of marijuana. It doesn't work for everyone but it works for some people. The real problem you are up against is that this is not a rational area of discussion. Marijuana becomes a powerful symbol of a lifestyle and it represents a lot of things that most cultures are afraid of and I think the resistance to legitimizing marijuana as a medicine, really stems from this irrational fear that if we do that we are chipping away at this whole superstructure of myths that has been built up of cannabis as a devil drug that has no redeeming qualities.
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| Apr 29, 2005 | One-Mann Campaign For Marijuana Party If Michael Mann gets elected on May 17, he wants to serve as a watchdog on behalf of the people who elected him. ..The B.C. Marijuana Party candidate for the Alberni-Qualicum constituency says having an independent voice in the legislature to hold people to account is something that's sorely needed.
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| Apr 26, 2005 | Medicinal Marijuana Activist Brings Fight To Legalize Drugs to Sackville A former corrections officer and one of Canada's most outspoken medicinal marijuana activists says that calls for tougher drug sentencing following the recent slayings of the four RCMP officers in northern Alberta is not the answer.
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