| Oct 28, 2005 | Rolling Stone Article Irks Local Leaders In his article entitled "The Tale of Kid Cannabis", Rolling Stone contributing editor Mark Binelli writes: "Rumour had it that the town of Nelson had become a sort of hippie Shangri-La, a place where if you took more than ten minutes to find someone to sell you a dime bag, there was a good chance you were already high." Binelli described Baker Street's Holy Smoke Culture Shop, with its outdoor portrait of reggae legend Peter Tosh " large enough to rival Soviet-era portraits of Lenin," as "a second City Hall."
[ Many enterprising kids realize they can make far more money selling pot than be expoited at McJobs. Eventually the pot sellers buy the business and hire the pot buyers to work for them... it's all spelled it in Narco-Dollars
for Beginners A MUST READ ] |
| Oct 27, 2005 | This Bud's For All Of Us Bud Inc., by Ian Mulgrew ( Random House Canada, 304 pages, $35 ) After a week in Vancouver I realized that Mulgrew's new book will open the eyes of quite a few people when it comes out next month. Prohibition has failed. The police and courts are overwhelmed. The cultivators are laughing all the way to an offshore account. The only hope is that Uncle Paul and some of his colleagues will come to the glaringly obvious conclusion that Ian Mulgrew spells out again and again. Legalize it.
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| Oct 23, 2005 | CN AB: Minister Spearheads Child Seizure Law Exposing children to illegal drug activity is child abuse, Alberta's children's services minister says, and proposed legislation allowing the apprehension of children in grow ops or other drug houses will make that clear. "It's an addition to the toolbox," Heather Forsyth said Friday.
[How much uglier can the war on pot get? What about the kids growing up in violent alcoholic homes? When will they get a break?] |
| Oct 22, 2005 | Legal But Unjust MANITOBA should be embarrassed that a provincial court judge was pressed this week into personally making phone calls to find legal counsel for Chinese immigrants charged in connection with a marijuana grow operation. She then had to deny bail to most of the 28 accused, found sleeping in a tiny house next to the rural pot farm. All but one cannot speak English and they have no criminal records.
They are in custody largely because they are poor and they have no local address.
[Every day we are reminded about how broken the system is, yet it perpuates unabated... imagine some of the headlines in a few years if we stay the course...] |
| Oct 20, 2005 | Immigrants' Plight Concerns Chinese Community In City MEMBERS of Winnipeg's Chinese community say they're concerned about immigrants who were packed into a rural Manitoba farmhouse and accused of doing the "grunt" work in Manitoba's largest-ever marijuana grow operation.
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| Oct 12, 2005 | Grow Ops Are Dangerous, Police Say Because of the potential dangers involved in dismantling a marijuana grow operation the OPP have changed how they deal with them. In earlier years he said they went in quickly and dismantled the operation quickly but that often left the officers exposed to a number of potentially dangerous situations and to the possibility of developing long-term health problems because of their exposure to chemicals and mold.
Today the officer explained they don't rush into grow operations and when they do go in they wear protective clothing and a ventilator masks. They also wear boots that protect them from electrical shocks.
[Perhaps the public was associating cannabis growing to harmless plant/flower growing, whereas the police want to associate pot growing/meth lab dangers. The propagnada machine runs in high gear] |
| Oct 12, 2005 | CN BC: Pilot Pot Project Will Be Permanent By '06 A pilot program that hits marijuana growers in the pocketbook will become permanent by 2006 in Abbotsford. ...The project was based on local government's jurisdiction through the Community Charter, the Fire Services Act, the B.C. Building Code and the Controlled Substance Bylaw to inspect homes that may pose a threat to public safety.
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| Oct 12, 2005 | CN BC: City Targets Hydroponic Sales Gaetz said it is not possible to prohibit the sale of hydroponic equipment, particularly as the items can be used for legitimate agricultural purposes, such as growing tomatoes. Rather the plan would be to regulate the sales by calling for information from the purchaser such as who they are and what they intend to use the product.
[The desperate war on pot will keep going to any extreme for it's continuance] |
| Sep 27, 2005 | CN NS: Pot Accused Seeks Jury Trial A Maccan man who says he was growing marijuana to help himself and 300 others with medical conditions including cancer has asked to be tried in Nova Scotia Supreme Court on three charges stemming from a police raid on his property last month that netted more than 1,200 marijuana plants.
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| Sep 23, 2005 | A Green Light To Grow The legal avenues for growing pot legally in B.C. are more convoluted than a corn maze.
People with licenses issued by Health Canada to use marijuana for its medicinal benefits not only deal with municipal bylaws and Health Canada regulations, but they have to surrender their personal information to police so they won't get busted.
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| Sep 19, 2005 | Police Losing Battle Over Pot, Says Prof Police are losing the war against pot and it's time to make it legal and regulate the cultivation and use of it, says Eugene Oscapella, an Ottawa University criminology teacher who co-founded the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy.
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| Sep 18, 2005 | CN ON: Police Crack Grow Op Worth $21 Million West Grey Police uncovered a marijuana grow operation worth $21.2 million on a farm in the former Bentinck Township Sunday morning.
About 9,000 plants ranging from four to six feet high were seized. A truck filled with approximately 1,250 pounds of marijuana bud in black plastic garbage bags ready for transportation was also seized.
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| Sep 16, 2005 | 'Green Tide' Of Asian Grow-Ops Moving East FREDERICTON ( CP ) - Police in New Brunswick say the seizure of more than 40,000 marijuana plants in the past few days is proof that Asian crime lords are moving their operations east.
[Actually, it is just proof that prohibition will continue to fuel pot production for profit - it seems to make cops and criminals happy, but no one else seems to like it] |
| 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 11, 2005 | Mountie Wants Parents Punished For Raising Children In Grow-ops B.C.'s top "grow-op cop" said the courts should hand out longer jail sentences to parents who raise their kids in marijuana drug houses.
[Good idea - bust up more families and have more kids grow up in foster care, then we can have more repurcussions from the war on pot] |
| 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 3, 2005 | War On Grow-Ops A Losing Battle Even if Kelowna RCMP could bust a grow-op a day, they would never catch up with the amount of marijuana being cultivated here..."We'd never catch up with all of them. It's that prolific." Kelowna RCMP average about two grow busts a week
[Yet it goes on and on and on.... just like the definition of insanity...] |
| Aug 27, 2005 | Pot Farms Flourish Massive outdoor marijuana grow-ops like the one busted near Oak Lake this week - the largest in the province's history - are sprouting up across Canada and there are likely more right here in Westman, says a police source.
Indoor grow-ops in residential neighbourhoods - often upscale or suburban areas - have grabbed the media spotlight in recent years, but an Ontario-based investigator said police agencies nationwide are also starting to see a trend in large-scale outdoor pot farms.
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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?] |
