| May 1, 2005 | Cops Find Kids Being Kept In Drug Houses [Are parents who grow legal crops indoors also guilty of exposing their kids to unsafe conditions.. if nothing else, this is just another reason why ALL drugs should be regulated]
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| May 1, 2005 | Grow Ops -- An Inside Look So the question for all Canadians is, How would we have the law separate the Herbs from the Luus? How can organized-crime-driven grow operations be prevented while still allowing Canadians who choose to smoke marijuana--or need to smoke it for medical reasons--to provide for themselves and others without risking jail and a criminal record?
In other words, how should the law draw the line between personal choice and those who would criminally exploit us?
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| Apr 29, 2005 | Pot Growers Pay For New Program A 90-day Grow Op Public Safety pilot project that kicked in yesterday should give Abbotsford one of the most effective marijuana grow-op busting tools in Canada, said Mayor Mary Reeves. The $100,000 pilot project, designed in the past year and a half by the city's grow-op task force, will enforce the provincial Fire Services Act, the B.C. Building Code and the city's Controlled Substance Property Bylaw to gain entry into homes suspected to have dangerous activity.
[First they targeted renters, now no one is exempt from intrusion..] |
| Apr 26, 2005 | Seymour Arm Residents Arrested In Massive Drug Raid
A small army of RCMP officers -- about 100 in all -- swooped in on the town and searched several houses and other buildings in early October 2004.
Police executed 28 search warrants involving 14 properties and 14 vehicles, all within a four-kilometre radius. More than 5,000 marijuana plants were seized.
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| 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 19, 2005 | Politics Pot Party Candidate Pushing Medical Use Tony Adams said his recent classified ad in The Peace Arch News offering to train potential Marijuana Party candidates as medical marijuana growers was legitimate.
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| Apr 16, 2005 | Up In Smoke A Sick Guelph Man Fears The Future After Police Confiscate His Crop Of What He Argues Is Legal Marijuana, Prescribed To Ease His Many Ailments.
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| Apr 15, 2005 | Charges Withdrawn In $1 Million Marijuana Case Search Likely Wouldn't Stand Up to Charter Of Rights And Freedoms hallenge, Crown Says
Charges against four men accused of growing more than $1 million worth of marijuana northwest of Kemble last fall were withdrawn Thursday.
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| Apr 12, 2005 | CN BC: Pot Search Ruled Illegal At issue was the information used by police to get a search warrant for the premises in late November, 2003.
According to Romilly's decision, the police received the information from a confidential source that there were 300 to 400 marijuana plants inside the residence in question, including the upstairs and the basement. The house is actually a small, one-storey bungalow with no basement.
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| Apr 10, 2005 | CN ON: CN ON: Council To See $8-m Plan To Root Out Grow Houses An $8-Million Plan To Stem The Proliferation Of Marijuana Grow Houses Is On Its Way To Toronto Council.
[Unbelievable! One can only imagine how much $8million would help ease poverty or hunger in the city instead of feeding the pot fetish that politicians develop] |
| Apr 8, 2005 | CN BC: Massive Grow Op Nailed By Cops Chilliwack: Police pulled 3,967 marijuana plants from two barns in the 48700 block of McConnell Road Wednesday.
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| Apr 7, 2005 | And Marijuana For All By Alan Young. I am becoming embarrassed by the endless pot debate in Canada. Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan recently stated that marijuana smokers are stupid ( Was this her way of saying she smokes the herb? ), but the true imbecility lies in the irresolute and confused response of our governemt to a no-brainer issue of public policy.
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| Apr 5, 2005 | CN ON: Judge Throws Out $500,000 Grow-Op Case WHITBY, ONT. - A judge has thrown out all charges in a $500,000 marijuana grow-op seizure because of serious charter violations by police who killed two dogs at a home in Pickering, Ont.
[Every once in awhile, justice previals just enough to give us some hope] |
| Apr 1, 2005 | CN ON: Pot Activists Sound Off At Meeting A town hall meeting about illegal marijuana grow ops in Scarborough grew heated last night when activists supporting the legalization of cannabis challenged the information being presented by a parade of local politicians and police.
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| Apr 1, 2005 | CN BC: Marijuana Found In 19 Units Of Complex Marijuana-growing operations have been found in 19 housing units in the 90-unit Cranberry Lanes townhouse complex in east Richmond, prompting several residents to say they're considering a move to a safer neighbourhood.
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| Mar 30, 2005 | The Heat Is On And while police still build their cases the old-fashioned way, they also rely on a little help from technology. It sounds a little sci-fi and comes with its own controversy, but the Saanich police department's thermal imager helps turn hunches into search warrants.
[More rights gone to make tracking victimless "crime" easier.... a theme that we see repeating over and over ] |
| Mar 24, 2005 | CN BC: Police Want Store Owners To Reveal Pot Information The City of Abbotsford wants businesses who sell hydroponics supplies and used goods - especially guns or equipment used in marijuana growing operations - to pass their customer information on to local police.
[If trying to enforce a victimless law requires such extreme measures and relinquishing even more privacy and rights, then at some point, the tipping point will occur] |
| Mar 24, 2005 | Editorial: Giving Up The Fight On Pot Not An Option News that British Columbia's indoor pot business is still flourishing is a message to some that it's time to give up the fight over marijuana grow operations.
They claim it's a battle that can never be won; that simple surrender is the only option.
That's a naive suggestion.
[If people who can think logically and rationally are labeled "naive", than it is just as easy to label those who want to ramp up the war on a non-toxic plant, as morons] |
| Mar 23, 2005 | Stop Trying To Change The Laws Of Economics It's as it was with alcohol prohibition in the United States, which resulted not in an end to drinking, but the creation of Al Capone.
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| Mar 22, 2005 | CN ON: Grow-op Posse Alarms Police Politicians Hunt Drug Door To Door - Almost Vigilantism,' Officers Contend
Two Scarborough politicians are going door to door in their neighbourhood looking for marijuana grow houses to report to police.
[Can you imagine if politicians put this much time and energy into ending poverty. What a wonderful world it would be.] |
