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Current Affairs 2005 - Consequences (46 items)
| Sep 1, 2005 | Ontario Hemp Industry Ready For Growth Rising Oil Costs Make Natural Product Viable Alternative
[Think of all the trees world-wide that would probably still be standing if we had been using hemp all along.. just another crime against humanity..] |
| 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?] |
| Aug 16, 2005 | Emery Says Seed Clients Being Set Up B.C. pot activist and former Londoner Marc Emery yesterday warned his marijuana seed customers their orders may have been intercepted by U.S. justice officials.
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| Aug 13, 2005 | Legalize Pot, Focus Sights On Crystal Meth The arguments for legalizing pot to better fight hard drugs are so strong that Ottawa's failure to move in that direction seems to be due to outside pressure. Either it's organized crime, hoping to keep pot illegal to keep profits flowing, or it's police agencies -- domestic or American -- nervous that their budgets will be slashed if this bogeyman is removed.
[Only police and organized crime support prohibition, yet that seems to be all it takes] |
| Jun 11, 2005 | How To Cheat On A Urine Test EDMONTON - Keeping a job used to be about minding your Ps and Qs. These days, some people are minding their pee. "We're not talking just typical party people. We're talking mothers, fathers, secretaries, grandparents, everybody."
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| 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.] |
| Jun 1, 2005 | CN ARTIC: Police dismantle drug pipeline to the North ARTIC: Dozens of suspects appeared in court today in connection with the massive dismantling of a criminal ring that trafficked marijuana from Montreal to the Far North. ... Gordon McGregor, the president of the police chief's association of aboriginal communities, said the drug ring has created enormous social problems in the communities affected.
"We see high rates of suicide, we see a lot more violence, and we see more lot more situations where weapons are involved," McGregor told reported today.
[The northern communities should file a class action suit stating prohibition opens them to greater societal harm, and they need protection against such an unjust law. If there is problems of that magnitude associated with cannabis, than without a supply of non-toxic, less harmful herb , their communities are more susceptible to greater harm and violence from gasoline sniffing, alcohol, and eventually crystal meth, which is easier to smuggle. |
| 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 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 26, 2005 | CN BC: Grow-Rip Scares Retirees "My wife was first out because I was still putting on my clothes and she came back hollering to call 9-1-1, because there's a couple guys kicking in the door to the house next door," said the husband. "And they're yelling back saying not to bother because, 'We're police, we're busting a grow-op.'
[Is it cops? Is it thugs? It is too difficult to tell the difference between cops and robbers these days when it comes to the war on nature] |
| 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 14, 2005 | Tenants' RightsGroup Worries Grow-Op Bylaw Could Be Abused [When there is one set of rules for home owners and another for home renters, the divide between the haves and have nots widens and deepens]
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| May 13, 2005 | Cops Hurt In Drug Raid Two Toronto cops are in hospital suffering from broken bones after they tried to arrest a group of men in an alleged high-rise crackhouse.
[This is why they prefer to stick to busting pot growers...] |
| 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 | City Wants Info On Who's Using Hydroponics An Abbotsford city council resolution asking the province to force retailers to give police data on customers who buy hydroponic growing equipment, goes to the Lower Mainland Municipal Association this week.
[You are a suspect if you do buy anthing from grow equipment to cold medicine...mandatory ID for any purchase is next..] |
| 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 8, 2005 | Hydroponics Industry Getting 'A Bad Rap Lately' The hydroponics business is getting caught up in the illegal grow-op business and it's unfair, according to one worker. ..."We're trying to promote plants that aren't low light that need good light and good nutrition. A lot of people are into small vegetable gardens in the winter or they grow orchids or bonsai trees. That's what we try to promote."
[If every Canadian family would begin a small garden at home, then the so-called "dangers of indoor growing" would be eliminated from our lexicon] |
| May 8, 2005 | Grow-Op Bust Ends In Death A 45-YEAR-OLD woman, apparently trying to elude police, plunged 15 storeys to her death at an apartm
[or..Prohibition claims another life...] |
| May 4, 2005 | PUB LTE: Renters Losing Their Charter Rights Of course, child molesters and child abusers can still hide their victims in the home, still safe from inspection and searches, as long as the don't grow pot. It says much about the priorities of our rulers.
So, if you are a renter, it appears that just about everybody has the right to invade your privacy and your home. Big Brother, and doublespeak, are alive and well in Canada.
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| Apr 8, 2005 | Marijuana-joint Sharing Linked To Spread Of Potentially The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is warning people not to share marijuana joints because the practice is resulting in the spread of meningococcal disease, which is potentially fatal.
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