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Current Affairs 2005 - USA (60 items)
| Aug 16, 2005 | Judge Slams US Drug War The United States' war on drugs is based around hypocrisy, ignorance and greed, says a Californian judge who was in Vancouver yesterday at the Canadian Bar Association's annual legal conference. "We couldn't do it worse if we tried"
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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 12, 2005 | Canada Goes To Pot Emery was jailed in Saskatchewan for passing a joint. In Saskatoon they call that "trafficking." On the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, they call it "Saturday."
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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 24, 2005 | Drug Tunnel - Sources Says Conduit Not Just For Pot Three Surrey men who allegedly spent more than a year digging a drug tunnel under the border to the U.S. planned to use it for smuggling ecstacy as well as marijuana, American authorities say.
[Tunnels have been around since alcohol prohibition] |
| 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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| May 29, 2005 | Pardon Me? Canadians Are A Larcenous Lot But There Is A Way To Wipe Your Slate Clean Again
Few would ever think of Canada as a country of criminals. But at last count, in fact, three million of us were. Which also means most of us know someone with a criminal record, or that if we were to walk into a roomful of Canadians, one in 10 of them would be known, intimately, by the law.
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| May 26, 2005 | CN QU: US Worried About Drugs From Quebec RCMP Officer Cites Trafficking Concerns. Criticizes Force's Closing Of 9 Detachments In Province, Shifting Resources From Border Area
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| May 18, 2005 | US: Spy vs. Spy United States - Proposed legislation would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, forcing all Americans to become foot soldiers in the war on drugs. Failure to do so would be a crime punishable by a mandatory minimum two-year prison sentence, and a maximum sentence of 10 years.
[If Canadians do not stand up now, this is a glimpse of where we are heading] |
| May 11, 2005 | Abduction Linked To Pot Smuggling Police believe the May 2 kidnapping is related to shipping of marijuana to the U.S., said Abbotsford police Const. Shinder Kirk
"We have seen over the past several years that the drug trade is extremely lucrative, that organized groups, or even unorganized groups, will do anything to protect their trade from competitors," Kirk said. "And marijuana is no exception."
[They forget to mention how prohibition-related crime like this could be avoided...] |
| May 10, 2005 | Accused In Slayings Described Himself As Assassin Gregory Allen Despres, accused of slaying an elderly Minto couple told American Customs officers he was an off-duty assassin before being allowed to cross the border, says a Charlotte County man who was seeking entry into Maine at the same time. ..Mr. Young said he was detained at the border station while trying to enter Calais because he was arrested in Ottawa almost 20 years ago for drug possession - two grams of hash. He said he was pardoned in Canada on the charge.
... Mr. Young was not allowed to continue on with his friends and never got the money for his trip refunded.
[This actually belongs in Ripley's Believe It Or Not...] |
| May 5, 2005 | Customs Officer Says B.C. Gang Forced Him To Smuggle Drugs A customs officer with the Canadian Border Services Agency is in a U.S. federal prison awaiting a bail hearing after he was arrested Tuesday at the truck crossing in Blaine, Washington allegedly trying to smuggle more than 100 kilograms of B.C. bud past colleagues guarding the U.S. border.
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| May 1, 2005 | Interview With Dr Andrew Weil There are many reasons to recommend it as a medicine. It's got extremely low toxicity and it's useful for conditions that it manages well like muscle spasms, chronic pain and also lack of appetite that occurs in HIV infections and cancers. The downside of marijuana is that you know most doctors are not very comfortable recommending that patients smoke and the affects are variable from individual to individual. It just seems to me silly to deny ourselves the benefits of marijuana. It doesn't work for everyone but it works for some people. The real problem you are up against is that this is not a rational area of discussion. Marijuana becomes a powerful symbol of a lifestyle and it represents a lot of things that most cultures are afraid of and I think the resistance to legitimizing marijuana as a medicine, really stems from this irrational fear that if we do that we are chipping away at this whole superstructure of myths that has been built up of cannabis as a devil drug that has no redeeming qualities.
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| May 1, 2005 | Border Guards Awash In Sea Of Green B.C. drug smugglers are breaking the law -- and the bank -- when they sneak across the border.
An increase in seizures is putting enormous strain on Washington county law enforcement and local officials say they've had enough.
[Canada is responsible for 2% of US pot, so this is just another example of a lost cause...] |
| Apr 6, 2005 | Reefer Refugees No American Has Ever Been Granted Canadian Refugee Status Because of the War on Drugs, but the Times They May Be Changing.
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| Mar 26, 2005 | Headaches Fuel Revival Of Hallucinogenic Medicine Doctors Look At Magic Mushrooms And LSD As Possible Cures For A 'Terrible Affliction,'
{Finally, some real advancements in the forbidden areas of medicine] |
| Mar 25, 2005 | Returning Pot Activist To US A Death Sentence he wife of medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby told Federal Court Justice Sandra Simpson that returning her husband to the U.S. to serve a prison term would be a death sentence.
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| Mar 21, 2005 | American Woman Awaits Extradition Decision Nightmares about abuse in prison and separation from her son have plagued Renee Boje for more than four years as she awaits a decision on her extradition to the United States.
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