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Current Affairs 2005 - Government (116 items)
| May 10, 2005 | School Official Says Province's Drug Dog Idea 'Not Adequate' Solicitor General Harvey Cenaiko. .. said he was working to convince reluctant school boards to allow police dogs to conduct drug searches after school hours. Cenaiko said there were some school boards that don't want the dogs in schools and he was currently considering legislation to overrule them..."The dogs are growing up in our schools. The kids get to know them.
"Kids know the dogs are being trained to smell drugs."
[Kids also grow up with the knowledge of how hypocritical adults are, which is why so many messages get "lost" on youth, no matter what tactics are used ] |
| May 8, 2005 | MLA Touts Drug Dogs As School Mascots School mascots should be drug dogs, Alberta's Alliance MLA thinks.
"What would it be like in our schools if we were indeed to have a mascot dog that was a drug sniffer?" Cardston MLA Paul Hinman mused in the legislature this week.
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| May 6, 2005 | Medicinal Pot Users Society Mandate Approved The Okanagan is about to join Nelson, Victoria and Vancouver with the creation of a new society with a mandate to distribute cheap, safe medical marijuana.
Richard Babcock, founder of the Okanagan Compassion Club Society, knows too well the difficulties in obtaining good medical marijuana.
[If the governments med pot program worked, these clubs would be defunct rather than expanding...] |
| May 5, 2005 | City Applies Pressure On Grow-Ops The project starts immediately and involves three specially-appointed city officials travelling around Abbotsford's streets.
Using equipment that senses excessive heat, they will scan homes from the outside to determine whether there is a grow-op inside.
If they suspect there is, the staff would knock on the door of the home, and if there is an answer, act under the provincial Community Charter to enter the property on the grounds of it being a public safety hazard.
[How to circumvent the Charter of Rights in one easy swoop...] |
| May 3, 2005 | Marijuana Party Joins The Race Nelson-Creston Riding: Just Under The Wire, Philip McMillan Files Papers To Bring Total Names On The Ballot To Four
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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 | One-Mann Campaign For Marijuana Party If Michael Mann gets elected on May 17, he wants to serve as a watchdog on behalf of the people who elected him. ..The B.C. Marijuana Party candidate for the Alberni-Qualicum constituency says having an independent voice in the legislature to hold people to account is something that's sorely needed.
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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 | We're Still Waiting For Raid Answers Basi, who has a reputation for membership recruitment with both the provincial and national Liberals, has also been charged with marijuana production and possession of pot for the purpose of trafficking. It's incredible -- a scandal in its own right -- that B.C. voters are being asked to give the Campbell Liberals another four years in office before knowing what might emerge from all this long after the polls have closed again. It's sad, too, that no one seems to care.
[We would have known much more if the NDP were raided, but it was the Liberals, and the media just love the Liberals... so we will never know..] |
| 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 21, 2005 | What The Law Dictates Under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, drugs fall into numerous categories, or schedules, that are ranked in the legal system according to their perceived severity...Marijuana and hash ( more than 30 grams and more than 1 gram respectively ) are schedule 2....Possession ..six months to five years for schedule 2..trafficking front, schedule 2's maximum punishment is life ( 25 years with no parole ).
[ An activist received 3 months for passing a joint... what's next - 10 years?] |
| 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 20, 2005 | Legalizing Pot Is His Number-one Priority Neil Magnuson wants Surrey residents to have access to safe medication, namely marijuana, which is reportedly useful for some maladies including glaucoma and treatment for nausea related to chemotherapy.
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| 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 19, 2005 | Just-released Marijuana Grower Wants To Run For Election Felger intends to run for the Marijuana party of B.C. in the May 17 provincial election against de Jong, the Liberal MLA who has represented Abbotsford-Mount Lehman since 1994.
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| Apr 19, 2005 | Health Canada Approves Sativex Canada becomes the first country in the world to approve Sativex,
a novel prescription pharmaceutical product derived from components
of the cannabis plant shown to have therapeutic properties.
Sativex is administered via a spray into the mouth."
[GW Pharma's attempt to medicalize this herb is now lurching closer to biopiracy, but in the spirit of openness and hoping this may add to the treatment options for many medical cannabis users, the VICS is publicly offering for the very first time, our Cannamist/tincture recipe - including how to convert the THCA into more usable THC.VICS Cannamist/Tincture Recipe ] |
| 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 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 | 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 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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