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Current Affairs 2005 - Legal (123 items)
| Jul 27, 2005 | CN BC: Compassion Society Defends Sooke Grow-Op In Court Philippe Lucas, head of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society, will be in at the Western Communities court house tomorrow and Friday for a preliminary trial into a RCMP raid on the compassion society's grow-op in Sooke.
[This facility was involved in several research projects and supplies cannabis - much more than the government is doing, without costing taxpayer's a cent. Close the competition down seems to be government strategy] |
| Jun 10, 2005 | CN BC: Board Denies Pot Party Claims The BCMP is suing the board for barring the party's candidates from participating in local high school sponsored debates.
[Students are getting a real lesson in what is and is not democracy] |
| Jun 9, 2005 | Pricks Nix Doobs for Sicks his case was an appeal by the always delightful Bush administration of another case involving two sick California women who puffed the MJ; at issue was whether the prosecution of weed smokers under the federal Controlled Substances Act ( when some individual state laws allow medical marijuana ) was, in fact, constitutional. Apparently it is, so take that, sick people! That'll show you, you sick bastards! Looks like being sick isn't so fun after all now, eh?
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| Jun 5, 2005 | CN ON: York Police Target Stores Selling Drug Accessories "Just because certain crimes aren't seen as a threat to public safety, does that mean we should stop enforcing it?"
[Through perseverance and diligence, will they ever be able to stomp out cannabis culture?] |
| Jun 2, 2005 | NB: Pregnant Woman Gets A Year For Selling Pot A New Brunswick judge has sentenced a pregnant woman to a year in prison, even though she will have to give birth while in jail in August, and also has three other children at home.
[Another blow to reason, logic, justice, enlightenment and humanity in general. FREE LYNN WOOD - donations toward her legal costs can be made through MUMM, Please help.] |
| 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 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 24, 2005 | CN BC: Marijuana Party Sues Over Freedom Of Speech The B.C. Marijuana Party is suing the Surrey School Board and the City of Abbotsford for targeting the party and its candidates' freedom of speech during the provincial election campaign.
[What is most alarming is the diminishing democracy in so-called free countries] |
| May 20, 2005 | CN BC: Hydroponics Bylaw Gets Regional Support Three Abbotsford resolutions, including one that could force hydroponics retailers to keep records on customers who may be growing marijuana, were accepted at last week's Lower Mainland Municipal Association general meeting.
[At what point will people resent their rights and privacy being eroded in order to keep a single plant illegal] |
| May 17, 2005 | Police Must Reinstate Drug-Addicted Officer A drug-addicted Toronto police officer is being allowed to keep his job. Mr. Kelly, an undercover drug squad officer with an otherwise perfect record, was fired last fall after becoming addicted to cocaine.
[If only all coke addicts were so lucky] |
| May 16, 2005 | Advocate For Pot Arrested A Windsor man who says he grows marijuana for the sick and dying has been busted on drug charges.
Fred Pritchard, 37, a self-styled marijuana legalization advocate who goes by the moniker Daweedking, is facing charges of marijuana production and trafficking.
[Busting compassion clubs means shutting down the competition to the governments med pot program.. not how capitalism is supposed to work..] |
| 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 | Crown Right Not To Charge Cops Who Tasered Teen: Prof Fryingpan was 16 years old and passed out drunk in the back of a car in the parking lot of a north-end townhouse project on Oct. 5, 2002 when police were called. The teen was shocked six times in 66 seconds by Const. Mike Wasylyshen, the son of then-chief Bob Wasylyshen.
[To serve and protect... the police are our friends...] |
| May 4, 2005 | Cop Gets Eight-year Sentence A Superior court judge has sentenced a veteran Peel Regional Police officer to eight years in prison after the 60-year-old admitted to stealing nearly $3 million worth of cocaine and hash from a police storage facility just months before he was to retire.
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| May 4, 2005 | Pot Bust Tactic Challenged Police busted Marc-Boris St-Maurice for pot possession last year after taking out memberships in the pro-marijuana political party he founded and infiltrating its clubhouse, Cafe Marijane.
[...making the streets safer...it would be funny if it weren't so pathetic what the cops won't do...] |
| Apr 30, 2005 | Cops May Face Rap Over Rights Breach After handcuffing the men, the officers searched the vehicle and seized cocaine, marijuana, a knife and cash.
"Reading someone their rights has got to be the first thing they do," said Jenuth. "You see it on TV. It should be second nature."
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| Apr 26, 2005 | Krieger Taking Cannabis Crusade To Supreme Court Calgary pot crusader Grant Krieger, challenging his conviction for possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, is taking the case to the Supreme Court of Canada.
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| Apr 26, 2005 | We're Still Waiting For Raid Answers Basi, who has a reputation for membership recruitment with both the provincial and national Liberals, has also been charged with marijuana production and possession of pot for the purpose of trafficking. It's incredible -- a scandal in its own right -- that B.C. voters are being asked to give the Campbell Liberals another four years in office before knowing what might emerge from all this long after the polls have closed again. It's sad, too, that no one seems to care.
[We would have known much more if the NDP were raided, but it was the Liberals, and the media just love the Liberals... so we will never know..] |
| Apr 26, 2005 | Pot Charge Pains Mom A Kemptville woman who smokes five grams of pot a day for pain relief says she's facing a charge of growing the drug because of a simple misunderstanding. But Health Canada and police say the rules are clear: A licence to possess medical marijuana isn't permission to set up your own grow op. Licenced users need to apply for a special permit to grow their own.
[Smothering legal pot use with red tape and bureaucracy ensures most people will stay outside the system] |
| Apr 21, 2005 | What The Law Dictates Under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, drugs fall into numerous categories, or schedules, that are ranked in the legal system according to their perceived severity...Marijuana and hash ( more than 30 grams and more than 1 gram respectively ) are schedule 2....Possession ..six months to five years for schedule 2..trafficking front, schedule 2's maximum punishment is life ( 25 years with no parole ).
[ An activist received 3 months for passing a joint... what's next - 10 years?] |
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