Current Affairs (2005) -
Reform (469 items)
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| Jan 20, 2005 |
You Can Never Escape A Criminal Record All the media got it wrong: Svend Robinson and Todd Bertuzzi, along with thousands of unlucky pot-smokers, will carry criminal records, regardless of their conditional discharges. The simple truth about discharges is that they don't avoid a criminal record and never have. Every person who's ever been granted a discharge has a criminal record and cannot honestly or legally deny it. |
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| Jan 20, 2005 |
Around The Bong With Tommy Chong "It's a gift from God to make us feel better; something to help us appreciate things. People just need to figure that out." |
| Jan 20, 2005 |
CN BC:
Grow Home-Free Subdivisions Hit In BC A British Columbia developer is building Canada's first guaranteed marijuana grow op-free subdivision, |
| Jan 20, 2005 |
CN NK:
Give Us The Straight Dope Here's the irony: Hearing that marijuana is demon weed - or watching someone taken to court over selling the stuff - sends a terrible message to young people. Because when they figure out that marijuana is not so bad and then look at other warnings - that ecstasy is a potential killer on the rise in N.B.- they think, "Whatever." I know I do. |
| Jan 21, 2005 |
CN BC:
They Make Millions Helping Pot Growers The owners of Advanced Nutrients beat back legal challenges even as they improve yields for B.C. bud |
| Jan 21, 2005 |
CN BC:
Medical-marijuana Activist Convicted Of Trafficking Ted Smith...a medical marijuana activist who lit up several joints at a pro-marijuana rally ..was found guilty of trafficking Thursday and now faces a maximum of five years in jail. [Disturbing trend - second person convicted of trafficking for just passing a joint] |
| Jan 21, 2005 |
CN ON:
Crime Stoppers Tips Continued To Rise Last Year The program was established in 1976 in the U.S.; it came to Toronto in 1984. Toronto Crime Stoppers received more than 5,000 tips that led to 474 arrests and 1,808 charges being laid last year, a record-breaker for the crime-fighting program. |
| Jan 21, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Pot Less Deadly Than Approved Drugs ...we continue to hassle those who find pain/symptom relief from medicinal cannabis. I guess we want potheads to die from FDA-approved pharmaceuticals, like the good, law-abiding citizenry does. |
| Jan 21, 2005 |
CN BC:
Municipality Owns Grow-Op Property .. the municipality of Saanich became the first landlord affected by its new grow-operation bylaw. " The thing to do was take the high road and say let's make an example - let everyone get past their initial reaction as well." [The bylaw involves up to $3,500 in fees, but it's taxpayers money, so why not?] |
| Jan 22, 2005 |
CN BC:
Pot Inc. Big Businesses Have Sprung Up Around the Fuzzy Legal Boundaries of Marijuana Cultivation in Canada. Are Some Crossing The Line?.... the government is supplying roughly 1,000 people with marijuana...compassion clubs... are illegally supplying nearly 10,000 |
| Jan 22, 2005 |
CN BC:
Awareness Critical Abbotsford MP Randy White was pushing his message to the converted last week as he urged the school board to familiarize themselves with a bill that would decriminalize marijuana and mobilize parent groups to get involved. |
| Jan 23, 2005 |
CN ON:
Orleans Smoke Shop Raises Profile Of Cannabis It's called Puffalot: A new store on St. Joseph Boulevard in Orleans that sells pipes, rolling paper, gram scales, and bongs ( multiple-user water pipes ) -- everything needed to smoke marijuana, except the actual weed. |
| Jan 23, 2005 |
CN AB:
Hunter High On Pot Fined $1,800 "We think it is one of the highest fines ever levied in the province for hunting while impaired by a drug..."Wildlife officers said they smelled drugs... |
| Jan 24, 2005 |
Justice Ministers Want Tougher Laws Topping the list of federal reforms urgently sought by the provinces is the abolition -- or at least the severe restriction -- of the availability of conditional sentencing. Conditional sentences such as house arrest, curfews, electronic monitoring and other alternatives to incarceration can be imposed by judges for offenders deemed not dangerous who would otherwise be jailed for less than two years. |
| Jan 24, 2005 |
CN ON:
Hemp Cream Turns Heads Christina Anderman sheepishly admits she has been experimenting with hemp-based ice cream since 1997 - one year before the federal government made it legal once again for Canadian farmers to grow hemp |
| Jan 25, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Injustice Being Done To Cannabis Activists When did sharing cannabis with friends and political supporters become "trafficking?" Though the law technically allows convictions even where no money is exchanged, there is a terrible injustice being done |
| Jan 25, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Politicians Scared Of US The reason that our politicians are so afraid of the marijuana issue has more to do with attitudes to the south of us than here at home.So, you tell me, who really runs this country? |
| Jan 25, 2005 |
CN BC:
BC Crime-fighting Budget Gets Boost Of $122-Million ... the explosive growth of marijuana-growing operations in British Columbia, which has earned the province the unenviable title of "Colombia North," was a big incentive for the government. A study released in 2002 showed the number of marijuana grow-ops in British Columbia had increased 222 per cent between 1997 and 2000 and had jumped by more than 1,000 per cent in some areas. [The incentives are so obvious - keep cannabis illegal to keep the cash flowing to police jobs rather than social programs] |
| Jan 25, 2005 |
CN BC:
Bail Set At $150,000 For Marijuana Activist Abbotsford's self-proclaimed marijuana activist Tim Felger will have to pay a $150,000 bail to get of out jail and allow Abbotsford police to search his property any time if he is released. |
| Jan 25, 2005 |
US WA:
County's Pot Production Dropping Police Say Their Enforcement and Potent B.C. Marijuana Cut into Local Growing Operations."Like any consumer out there, marijuana users want the most bang for their buck and they prefer the stuff coming from Canada." Most of the marijuana police found statewide was from large operations cultivating cannabis with high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, [What this article fails to mention is less pot, <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v05/n132/a01.html?1798"> more meth</a>, is that what we really want? It then continues with standard US propaganda that we will begin seeing more and more of in a Canadian newspaper near you.] |