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Current Affairs 2005 - Statistics (60 items)
| Mar 12, 2005 | Pot Patch Violence A Myth Justice Minister Wrong, Lawyers Say. Ontario Police Met With Violence In Only 2 Of 800 Raids In 4 Years, Cop Testifies ...many in the legal community say the claim by politicians and police that grow-ops are violent vehicles for sophisticated, organized crime groups is a "cheap shot" that does not stand up to "10 minutes of fact checking." Numerous lawyers who defend these cases in court suggested Public Security Minister Anne McLellan is misleading the public about the dangers of grow-ops with her recent comments in the wake of the Alberta murders.
[There is a lot of political maneuvering going on right now... a minority government that everyone assumed would align with the left on the cannabis Bill to keep voters happy...instead could be aligning with the right to keep the US happy. As trading partners/neighbours, we have been upsetting each other for whatever reasons, so the legalization card could be easily played instead, and get the grow op violence out of the equation. If Canadians do not speak out loud and clear with thier votes and voices, then be prepared for the prison-industrial complex in a neighbourhood near you] |
| Mar 11, 2005 | CN BC: Police Strategy Police in B.C. raid about 2,000 marijuana growing operations a year -- a rate of more than five a day.
From 1997 to 2003, the percentage of raids that resulted in "no-case seizures" -- in which police seize plants but don't pursue charges against anyone -- jumped dramatically from 35 per cent of all raids to 64 per cent.
[Sounds more like break and enter than law enforcement] |
| Feb 28, 2005 | Canucks In Haze On Pot Canadians are confused about what the feds mean when they talk about the decriminalization of pot, a new poll shows. The poll of 1,000 Canadians was conducted between Jan, 28 and Feb. 2 by the polling firm SES for Tory MP Randy White.
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| Feb 25, 2005 | CN BC: City Bylaw Pounding Pot Growers A new Chilliwack bylaw is muscling marijuana grow-ops out of residential neighbourhoods and hitting operators in the pocketbook - even before court convictions. Four hundred grow-ops were reported to police in Chilliwack last year, suggesting the real number could be more than 1,200.
[Squeezing out the family gardens in favour of organized crime - good idea- NOT] |
| Feb 9, 2005 | CN NK: Defence in N.B. pot trial seizes on Ottawa's slow response to medical need New Brunswick - Ottawa's slow and cautious response to requests for medicinal marijuana has become an issue for the defence in a New Brunswick drug trafficking trial.
[This significant case deals directly with the inadequacies of the government program.] |
| Feb 4, 2005 | Alcohol as harmful as smoking, study warns LONDON - Alcohol causes almost as many deaths and disabilities worldwide as smoking or high-blood pressure, a study warns....despite evidence that alcohol causes as much harm as tobacco and high blood-pressure, public-policy decisions are governed all too often by political instead of health concerns...
[If it weren't so, then cannabis would be legal] |
| Feb 1, 2005 | Response consistency in young adolescents' drug use self-reports: a recanting rate analysis. Conclusions: The high levels of recanting uncovered cast doubts on the reliability of drug use reports from young adolescents. Failure to address this response error may lead to biased prevalence estimates, particularly within school surveys and drug education evaluation trials.
[This published study confirms suspicions when kids (or adults) are asked about drug use - they will not honestly report whether they break the law. |
| Jan 27, 2005 | PUB LTE: Canada Is Small Potatoes Among Pot Exporters ...the available evidence, including reports from the auditor general of Canada, the RCMP, the U.S. and the United Nations, shows just the opposite -- that Canada is in fact only a minor supplier of cannabis to the U.S. -
[written by Eugene Oscapella - Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy ] |
| Jan 26, 2005 | Canada Top Pot Supplier Canada is now the largest single supplier of pot to the United States, says a top customs official.
[ LIES!!!!... it was only 3 months ago the report below came out...]
*FLASHBACK* October 25, 2004 United States-Canada Border Drug Threat Assessment: While Canadian-produced marijuana accounts for only approximately 2% of overall U.S. marijuana seizures at its borders, the two governments are very concerned about an upward trend in seizures... [Further reading from CFDP] |
| Jan 25, 2005 | CN BC: BC Crime-fighting Budget Gets Boost Of $122-Million ... the explosive growth of marijuana-growing operations in British Columbia, which has earned the province the unenviable title of "Colombia North," was a big incentive for the government.
A study released in 2002 showed the number of marijuana grow-ops in British Columbia had increased 222 per cent between 1997 and 2000 and had jumped by more than 1,000 per cent in some areas.
[The incentives are so obvious - keep cannabis illegal to keep the cash flowing to police jobs rather than social programs] |
| Jan 21, 2005 | CN ON: Crime Stoppers Tips Continued To Rise Last Year The program was established in 1976 in the U.S.; it came to Toronto in 1984. Toronto Crime Stoppers received more than 5,000 tips that led to 474 arrests and 1,808 charges being laid last year, a record-breaker for the crime-fighting program.
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| Jan 19, 2005 | CN BC: Want Stiffer Sentences For Grow-Ops? Lobby MPs, Not Judges only one in seven people in British Columbia -- and only one in 13 in Vancouver -- convicted of growing marijuana between 2002 and 2004 received a jail sentence. Not surprisingly, law enforcement personnel, who have stepped up raids on grow-ops in recent years, are disappointed with the sentencing records. B.C. Solicitor-General Rich Coleman has also expressed disappointment with the courts..
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| Jan 17, 2005 | Pot Prohibition A Policy Flop If we needed any more proof that the war being waged against pot is futile, we got it a few days ago in a Health Canada report. The federal agency reports pot is easier to get in Canadian school yards than tobacco.
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| Jan 12, 2005 | Sex Pot In fact, one study of Jamaican women who had smoked pot throughout pregnancy found that their babies actually registered higher on developmental scores at the age of 30 days, while experiencing no significant effects on birth weight or length.
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| Jan 12, 2005 | CN BC: Seizures Down A Bit As BC Bud Makes A Run For The Border U.S. Authorities Nabbed 5 Tonnes Of Pot In 2004, But Concede More Gets Through
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| Jan 12, 2005 | Pot-spotters Earn $26,050 For Reporting Grow Houses Crime Stoppers approved $26,050 in reward money to Calgarians who called last year with grow-op tips that panned out. That's an $8,550 increase from 2003 and more than half of the overall $49,500 total authorized.
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| Jan 10, 2005 | CN BC: Few Complaints About Grow-op Cleanup Fees In just six months, the city has issued almost $157,000 in penalties to landlords whose houses and buildings contained marijuana growing operations. But only two of the property owners have complained.
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| Jan 10, 2005 | PUB LTE: Medical Marijuana: More Legal Cannabis Users About 8,000 Canadians get their organic, multiple-strain, multiple-delivery-option, medical-grade marijuana from compassion clubs across the country, all at no expense to the taxpayers. Meanwhile, Health Canada supplies their single-strain, gamma-irradiated, chemically-contaminated, mulch-pot to only 93 of the 753 Canadians currently licensed to possess cannabis.
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| Jan 6, 2005 | CN AB: Cops Hope Pot Busts Turn Tide The 2004 dollar amount is more than 10 times the $9 million worth seized in 2001.
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| Jan 1, 2005 | CN AB: Police Seized Pot By The Bushel In '04 Calgary: The seizure of pot crops in 2004 was expected to bring the total number of plants to 81,000 -- worth an estimated $100 million -- by the end of December.
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