| Sep 22, 2005 | CN ON: Charge Withdrawn Against Local Marijuana Activist Rick Reimer said authorities withdrew a charge of being intoxicated in a public place during a court appearance last week in Annapolis Royal, N.S.
Mr. Reimer, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, has a medical exemption from Health Canada to use marijuana to alleviate the symptoms of his disease. He was smoking a marijuana cigarette when he asked an RCMP officer to check in with security when entering the festival grounds.
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| Sep 16, 2005 | CN NT: Pot Party Candidate Charged With Trafficking "It's Really A Badge Of Honour For Us Rather Than A Stigma" Nunavut's Marijuana Party candidate appeared in court this week to face long-standing charges of drug trafficking and money laundering.
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| Sep 15, 2005 | PUB LTE: Canada's Prisons Don't Compare To Club Med As owner and operator of the Manitoba Compassion Club I went to jail for six months for producing and distributing cannabis to the ill. Let me assure Ms. Sims jail is not exactly Club Med. Jail dehumanizes people.
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| Sep 14, 2005 | Spokesperson Denied Agent Status Two Pasqua First Nation men charged in connection with a large marijuana grow operation found on the reserve in August were told Tuesday that their spokesperson, who was seeking to represent them legally in court, would not be given agent status.
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| Sep 8, 2005 | Court Upholds 'Pot Grow Op' Home Seizure
"What makes this case stand apart from the rest of the dwelling restraints and forfeitures in B.C. is that all previous forfeitures have been by way of consent," said Langley RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Diane Blain.
This is the first case in B.C. to be contested since the amendments under Bill C-24 in 2001.
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| Sep 8, 2005 | Judge Scolds Officer For Lying In Court A metro man who admitted in court to being involved in criminal activity will not be prosecuted on a slew of drug and weapons charges because a Halifax Regional Police officer lied on the stand and officers unlawfully searched the man's home.
[Every once in awhile, justice prevails still] |
| Sep 7, 2005 | Marijuana Trafficking Charges Stayed TRURO, N.S. -- Trafficking charges were stayed yesterday against two men who say they smoke and supply marijuana for medicinal purposes. John Thomas Cook of Halifax and Stephen Edward Chute of Springhill, N.S., both 40, were each charged with possession of marijuana and possession for the purposes of trafficking.
Mr. Cook runs the Halifax chapter of the Cannabis Buyers Clubs of Canada and supplies medicinal pot to about 50 clients.
Mr. Cook and Mr. Chute don't deny that they shipped the drugs from Springhill to Halifax County. Crown attorney Cameron MacKinnon wouldn't comment on why the charges were stayed.
[Perhaps the government knows it is on shaky legal ground and don't want to push their luck. Too bad] |
| Aug 30, 2005 | CN BC: Judge Sets Aside Bail Conditions For The Sake Of Love Flashing a thumbs up from the prisoner's dock to a handful of supporters, Briere was ecstatic at the ruling that will allow him to run for Vancouver city council in November and paves the way for him to see his lover Carol Gwilt, who also faces drug and money-laundering charges for her role at the Commercial Drive cafe.
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| Aug 26, 2005 | Pot Crusader Says Canadians Will Be To Blame For Extradition Pot crusader Marc Emery said Thursday that all Canadians will be complicit if the United States succeeds in extraditing him to face drug charges in that country.
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| Aug 26, 2005 | Police Didn't Violate Pot Advocate's Rights - Judge A judge yesterday threw out arguments that police violated the constitutional rights of pro-marijuana advocate Marc-Boris St-Maurice when they joined the Bloc Pot party he founded and arrested him at the party's cafe.
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| Aug 26, 2005 | Hemp Oil Producer Plans Public Meeting MACCAN - Rick Simpson is anxious to have his medical marijuana activities judged in the court of public opinion.
The hemp oil producer who faces criminal charges is holding a public meeting Saturday at 2 p.m. in the community hall at the Royal Canadian Legion here in this small Cumberland County community, just outside Amherst.
"I'm going to tell the public exactly what I did and I want them to judge me," Mr. Simpson said this week.
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| Aug 24, 2005 | Convicted In Pot Case, Man Loses His Home To Crown VANCOUVER -- A homeowner who pleaded guilty to growing marijuana in his house has become the first person in British Columbia to see his home forcibly taken by the federal government. ...Mr. Luu's lawyer, Jay Solomon, argued in Surrey Provincial Court that seizure of the house was an inordinate sanction relative to the offence.
[This story is scary for several reasons, but mainly for what it doesn't say... how many plants does it take to lose your home? 5? 10? 300?] |
| Aug 21, 2005 | Cross-Border Policing Poses Sovereignty Risk, Canadian VANCOUVER -- The U.S. attorney prosecuting three Canadians suspected of digging a tunnel with the purpose of moving drugs across the border will ask a Seattle judge next week to seize the Fraser Valley property on which the tunnel was constructed.
[Soveriegnty is a national illusion for any country if the U.S. deems it so ] |
| Aug 18, 2005 | Senior Sentenced For Tobacco, Pot A southern Alberta man was fined $20,000 Wednesday for illegally manufacturing tobacco in the largest operation of its kind in Western Canada.....was also sentenced to 90 days in jail for producing marijuana
[Where corporate control and prohibition meet] |
| Aug 16, 2005 | Emery Says Seed Clients Being Set Up B.C. pot activist and former Londoner Marc Emery yesterday warned his marijuana seed customers their orders may have been intercepted by U.S. justice officials.
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| Aug 13, 2005 | This Johnny Appleseed Is Wanted by the Law New York Times: - FRESHLY released on bail, Marc Emery faced the camera of his Pot-TV.net Web site the other day to make an urgent appeal for money to finance his legal struggle to avert extradition to the United States for trafficking marijuana seeds south of the border
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| 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.] |
| Aug 5, 2005 | Marc Emery out on bail B.C. Marijuana Party leader Marc Emery has been released from the pre-trial centre in Port Coquitlam after posting $50,000 bail.
Marc Emery, Michelle Rainey, Greg William INFORMATION
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| Jul 29, 2005 | BCMP Headquarters Raided ordered by U.S. - Emery & others arrested Police raided a marijuana seed store run by the B.C. Marijuana Party leader in Vancouver Friday, apparently at the request of U.S. authorities in Seattle.
At a news conference in Seattle, U.S. authorities announced they've asked for Emery to be extradited to the U.S. to face drug charges.
[ Any illusion that Canada is a sovereign nation is now dead and gone] |
| Jul 28, 2005 | Scrap Canada's Capricious Marijuana Laws In a ruling that highlights the legal inequities of the federal marijuana prohibition, the highest court in the province has struck down a two-year prison sentence that was part of a plea bargain with a man caught growing dope in Saskatchewan.
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