| Feb 21, 2005 | CN NK: Pot café owner found guilty of trafficking SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The owner of the Cannabis Café in Saint John has been found guilty of drug trafficking, after a judge rejected the defence that she was running a compassion club.
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| Feb 20, 2005 | CN BC: Medical User Needs Help! After years of struggle, Denny was finally granted his license just last week. He is only awaiting the official paperwork to come through. While Denny was in hospital, these gestapo agents proceeded to search Denny's home. Of course they found his grow room. Denny was between crops, and didn't have even so much as a clone. Yet Sgt. Stadenco and his Keystone cops, proceeded to tear down the room and seize all the gear.
[This is how the police treat our sick family members] |
| Feb 11, 2005 | CN BC: Local Judge Sends Critics A Message If Judge Wilf Klinger Were Permitted To Write A Letter To The Editor Explaining Why Judges Impose The Sentences They Do, He Probably Would
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| Feb 9, 2005 | CN NK: Defence in N.B. pot trial seizes on Ottawa's slow response to medical need New Brunswick - Ottawa's slow and cautious response to requests for medicinal marijuana has become an issue for the defence in a New Brunswick drug trafficking trial.
[This significant case deals directly with the inadequacies of the government program.] |
| Feb 8, 2005 | CN AB: Police raid orchid grow-op Using a battering ram to force entry through the front door of the home a few days ago, officers found perfectly legal orchids growing inside instead
of marijuana plants,
[Canadians should all be encouraged to grow herbs and vegetables in their homes due to our climate, and offset the rising cost and contamination of the food supply. This would also help keep police in check.] |
| Feb 5, 2005 | CN QU: Pot Sentences Softened People convicted of minor drug offences shouldn't necessarily be doing time behind bars, according to the Quebec Court of Appeal.
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| Feb 3, 2005 | CN BC: Drug-Trafficking Charge Dismissed Over Police Arrest 'Ends Do Not Always Justify Means,' Judge Says Of Cocaine Bust. Drug-trafficking charges against a Vancouver man found with 24 kilograms of cocaine have been dismissed because of "planned and deliberate" Charter violations by Vancouver police.
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| Feb 2, 2005 | CN BC: Victoria pot activist fined $500 A medical marijuana activist was fined $500 Wednesday for lighting up five joints at a pro-pot rally. Leon Edward (Ted) Smith, 35, was found guilty of marijuana trafficking after he lit up five marijuana joints at a pro-marijuana rally at the University of Victoria in November 2000.
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| Feb 2, 2005 | CN QU: Judge cites racial profiling, throws out charges A Montreal judge has thrown out drug charges against a black man, saying he was a victim of racial profiling.
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| Jan 28, 2005 | Canada bans pot, but taxes seeds Pot may be illegal in Canada, but that hasn't stopped this country from becoming one of the top suppliers of seeds in the world, a marijuana activist says .These companies have found a legal loophole within the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Under section 58, the act specifies "non-viable seeds" as legal but doesn't say anything about "viable seeds."
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| Jan 28, 2005 | CN BC: RCMP Reach Settlement With Off-Duty Policeman Who should wave him over and ask to see his driver's licence and vehicle registration but a tall man with a thick Texan accent? "We have different freedoms than they do down there. You don't want your police meshing to the point where we start taking on the policies of another police jurisdiction."
[Disturbing trend - more US cops coming over the border ] |
| 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.
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| 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
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| 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...
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| 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 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 19, 2005 | CN BC: Want Stiffer Sentences For Grow-Ops? Lobby MPs, Not Judges only one in seven people in British Columbia -- and only one in 13 in Vancouver -- convicted of growing marijuana between 2002 and 2004 received a jail sentence. Not surprisingly, law enforcement personnel, who have stepped up raids on grow-ops in recent years, are disappointed with the sentencing records. B.C. Solicitor-General Rich Coleman has also expressed disappointment with the courts..
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| Jan 17, 2005 | CN QU: Psychologist In Trouble Over Pot Offer A high-profile Montreal psychologist specializing in addictions is in hot water with his professional order for offering to procure cannabis for a former client.
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| Jan 15, 2005 | CN NS: Patriquen Faces $260,000 Fine The founder of Nova Scotia's Marijuana Party was sentenced Friday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
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| Jan 12, 2005 | CN BC: Pot Activist's Charter Rights 'Violated Marijuana champion Ted Smith is the victim of discrimination because he is a pot smoker and a political activist, a provincial court judge heard Tuesday.
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