| May 10, 2005 | Crusaders Promote Pot With Flagpole Prank Spirits were flying high in the downtown civic square on the weekend, when someone hoisted a mock Canadian flag with a cannabis leaf up a City Hall flagpole.
[The cannabis leaf flag is as common as the real flag...so it's surprising anyone noticed the change] |
| May 9, 2005 | CN SN: Marijuana Activists Join Global Protest SASKATCHEWAN - Marijuana Activists From Saskatoon Joined A Global Protest Saturday.
About a dozen people marched from Broadway Avenue to city hall Saturday afternoon to raise awareness of what organizers call state-sponsored discrimination.
[Lifting the bonds of oppression has never been an easy task for any group, but perserverence has it's rewards eventually...] |
| May 8, 2005 | Downtown Pot Rally Brings Whiff Of The '60s Close to 3,000 people celebrated cannabis culture as part of the sixth "Global Million Marijuana March," marked in more than 200 cities worldwide.
"We want to see it legalized and decriminalized," said organizer Franklin Skanks. He believes legalizing pot would bring in more revenue via "sin taxes," boost tourism and help shut down organized marijuana grow-ops.
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| May 7, 2005 | With A Bong In His Heart Dominic Cramer is running late.
But when you preside over a growing retail empire rooted in marijuana, being time-challenged comes with the turf. Make no mistake, though, Cramer is no ordinary pothead.
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| May 5, 2005 | CN AB: Global March Supports Effort To Legalize Marijuana Marijuana has been garnering a lot of negative media attention in Calgary recently due to the burgeoning numbers of grow-ops police are busting and concern over organized crime involvement in the industry....But a group of Calgary pot users will be trying to send out a different message on May 7. They'll be participating in Global Marijuana March, a worldwide protest to legalize pot, which first began in New York City in 1996 and has since spread to 37 countries and 181 cities.
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| May 5, 2005 | The Longley And Winding Road Who is Blair Longley?
"I am like a grandfather of the Marijuana Party. I was the first person back in Vancouver in 1987 to get away with publicly cultivating pot and be let off, acquitted, even though I was clearly doing it. There was absolutely no doubt about it, but I was let go. The whole story is very amusing."
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| May 4, 2005 | Pot Bust Tactic Challenged Police busted Marc-Boris St-Maurice for pot possession last year after taking out memberships in the pro-marijuana political party he founded and infiltrating its clubhouse, Cafe Marijane.
[...making the streets safer...it would be funny if it weren't so pathetic what the cops won't do...] |
| Apr 25, 2005 | Gone To Pot More than 500 people gathered there -- at the seat of government and lawful authority in Manitoba -- to listen to music, play a bit of Frisbee, giggle perhaps more than usual and get high on dope. ... And yet the police did nothing except mark time. Enforcement of the Criminal Code should not be arbitrary. Arbitrary enforcement brings the justice system into disrepute...The law should be made to reflect the current reality. It was not illegal on Wednesday. It cannot be illegal today and should not be illegal tomorrow.
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| Apr 24, 2005 | For Pot Smokers, It's Always 4:20 A private security staffer drove his car across the grounds, in an apparent attempt at intimidation.
It didn't work.
"What's all the fuss," asked one MLA of the crowd.
4:20.
"Well, better than nine-eleven," he said.
[Well said] |
| Apr 22, 2005 | Scuffle At Pro-marijuana Rally Results In Charges An RCMP officer escaped injury during a scuffle with a man arrested at a pro-marijuana rally outside Red Deer's city hall, say police.
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| Apr 21, 2005 | Victoria's Top Toker Can't Join Smoke-In Pot aroma wafts over City Hall in sixth annual joint jubilee
Victoria's best-known pot advocate was one of the few who didn't light up Thursday afternoon outside City Hall.
It's not that Ted Smith didn't want to join revelers in the annual marijuana 4/20 celebrations -- it's just that a few police officers were keeping an eye on Centennial Square, and Smith is already facing drug charges.
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| Apr 21, 2005 | Pot Users Light Up Outside Legislature MORE than 500 pot smokers spent yesterday afternoon smoking joints and lounging on the Legislative Building grounds as part of an annual call for the legalization of marijuana.
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| Apr 19, 2005 | Smokin' Up The Joint Tomorrow is World Marijuana Day. You won't find it on the calendar. Actually, you won't find it anywhere but on the Internet.
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| Apr 18, 2005 | 'Toking Time' At Falls NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. -- The Horseshoe Falls was the backdrop for activists rallying to legalize marijuana. "Weed is a good thing. It's stereotyped not in a good way," said Mary Wilson, a Niagara Falls woman among approximately 250 people who lit up in Queen Victoria Park on Saturday at 4:20 p.m., the time of day pot-smokers consider the universal toking time.
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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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| 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 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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| Apr 1, 2005 | Think Before Un-inviting A Guest By yanking Emery from the invitation list, Warawa has created greater flak than if he had just let Emery come and debate.
The new MP said he didn't want the situation to become politicized.
Well, it's Canada and it's pot.
There is little that is more political, more of a hot-button issue, than that.
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| 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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| Mar 24, 2005 | Survey Uncovers Educated Tokers VANCOUVER -- Marijuana users are more likely than non-users to be single, well-educated and earning a decent salary. Just 43 per cent of low-income earners had smoked cannabis, versus 55 per cent of high income earners.
[Will the police include this data in their spins?] |
