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Current Affairs 2005 - Culture (76 items)
| Mar 18, 2005 | CN QU: Bloc Pot Leader Complains Of Police Sting The leader of the Bloc Pot told a Quebec Court hearing yesterday that undercover Montreal police officers secretly joined the pro-marijuana political party to find evidence against users of the illegal drug.
The police have infiltrated Narcotics Anonymous meetings and everything else, so it should be no surprise. |
| Mar 9, 2005 | CN ON: Is Pot Plant Flag Causing A Problem? The controversial flag looks similar to Canada's national flag but where the red maple leaf should be there is instead the image of a marijuana plant. The flag has been displayed in the front window of Redfearn's adult shop Parties and Affairs for four years.
"They are only now waking up to it? That cracks me up," she said.
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| Feb 28, 2005 | Marijuana Party Head Joins Liberals The head of the Marijuana Canada party has resigned to join the Liberals. Marc-Boris St-Maurice, who led the party from its inception in 2000 until December of 2004, said he will make a formal announcement on Tuesday
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| Feb 21, 2005 | CN NK: Pot café owner found guilty of trafficking SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The owner of the Cannabis Café in Saint John has been found guilty of drug trafficking, after a judge rejected the defence that she was running a compassion club.
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| Feb 17, 2005 | CN BC: Pot Party Looks For Candidates If the thought of legalizing marijuana is high on your list of priorities, consider becoming a Marijuana Party candidate in the May 17 B.C. election.
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| Feb 15, 2005 | A Genuine Joint The Hot Box Cafe isn't some trendy side-street eatery on Bloor West. It is Toronto's first and only marijuana cafe, tailored to the city's 'high' society. Nestled between Kensington Carpets and open-air grocery stores in the heart of Kensington Market, it's a place where patrons can sit down for a coffee and smoke a joint. Customers are encouraged to bring and smoke their own weed in the cafe.
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| Feb 3, 2005 | So You Want to Grow Your Own Pot I, as a proud pot-smoking Canadian, have been a trifle disturbed by some of the anti-drug rhetoric floating around lately. We've seen such gems as Anne McLellan labelling all pot smokers as "stupid" and the shameless use of an American national tragedy to push an inane anti-drug agenda: namely, advertisements linking drug use to terrorism. This is spin that makes dervishes look amateur.
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| Feb 2, 2005 | CN BC: Victoria pot activist fined $500 A medical marijuana activist was fined $500 Wednesday for lighting up five joints at a pro-pot rally. Leon Edward (Ted) Smith, 35, was found guilty of marijuana trafficking after he lit up five marijuana joints at a pro-marijuana rally at the University of Victoria in November 2000.
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| Jan 25, 2005 | PUB LTE: Injustice Being Done To Cannabis Activists When did sharing cannabis with friends and political supporters become "trafficking?" Though the law technically allows convictions even where no money is exchanged, there is a terrible injustice being done
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| Jan 23, 2005 | CN ON: Orleans Smoke Shop Raises Profile Of Cannabis It's called Puffalot: A new store on St. Joseph Boulevard in Orleans that sells pipes, rolling paper, gram scales, and bongs ( multiple-user water pipes ) -- everything needed to smoke marijuana, except the actual weed.
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| Jan 22, 2005 | CN BC: Pot Inc. Big Businesses Have Sprung Up Around the Fuzzy Legal Boundaries of Marijuana Cultivation in Canada. Are Some Crossing The Line?.... the government is supplying roughly 1,000 people with marijuana...compassion clubs... are illegally supplying nearly 10,000
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| Jan 21, 2005 | CN BC: They Make Millions Helping Pot Growers The owners of Advanced Nutrients beat back legal challenges even as they improve yields for B.C. bud
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| Jan 20, 2005 | Around The Bong With Tommy Chong "It's a gift from God to make us feel better; something to help us appreciate things. People just need to figure that out."
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| Jan 20, 2005 | CN QU: Coffee Pot Closed To little fanfare, the Coffee Pot, the Latin Quarter pot-smoking lounge and restaurant, closed its doors last month....business was so slow that he had no choice but to shut its doors just before Christmas.
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| Jan 13, 2005 | Cannabis For Connoisseurs Pot Guru Ed Rosenthal Releases The Second Volume Of His Big Book Of Buds
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| Jan 12, 2005 | Who's Paranoid? In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly eat. Cigarettes kill. Marijuana doesn't. And by the way, there is not a single study that says second-hand marijuana smoke causes cancer.
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