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Current Affairs 2006 - Cultivation (72 items)
| Jul 27, 2006 | Wanted: Pot Growers WINNIPEG -- People who want to grow pot for the federal government may soon get the chance.
Health Canada's five-year, $5.75-million contract with its current supplier of medicinal marijuana, Prairie Plant Systems, appears to be winding down and the department is preparing to seek proposals from all potential suppliers.
Of course, anyone with experience that has been "caught" need not apply. |
| Jul 19, 2006 | Marijuana A New Cash Crop? Almost 1,500 plants worth $1.4 million were seized by police from a rural property southeast of Ridgetown on July 8, but officials admit there's a lot more where that came from.
"It's such a lucrative trade, it's hard to estimate how many pot plants are being grown in the Chatham-Kent area," Const. Doug Gutteridge of the Chatham-Kent Police Service said last week.
The economics of prohibition. |
| Jul 2, 2006 | Tories Keep Medical Pot As much as the Tories would probably love to ditch the medical marijuana program, they have quietly extended the contract with the government's official pot grower....
The five-year, $5.7-million deal the Liberals inked with Prairie Plant Systems, which grows Ottawa's weed in an abandoned mine in Manitoba, expired Friday ( after a six-month extension was previously granted ).
[While other growers of that magnitude are MAKING $5.7-million in NON-TAXABLE income over 5 years, the government is SPENDING $5.7-million in TAXPAYER MONEY over 5 years on the pot trade, yet no alarm bells seem to be going off... in fact , the status quo is reinforced more than ever at every level.] |
| Jun 30, 2006 | BC: Properties Must Be Inspected Every 3 Months Landlords will be required to make mandatory inspections of their rental properties every three months, if a proposed anti-drug bylaw is adopted by Langley Township council.
[Homeowner = some privacy rights, Renter = no privacy rights. Slowly our freedom and rights disappear for metaphorical wars, and surprisingly, very few are concerned about it.] |
| Jun 13, 2006 | Return To Sender: Mail-Order Pot Seed Goes Astray A Comox Valley marijuana seed business has been foiled because there wasn't enough postage on the marijuana seed packages for them to reach their destination.
When several Comox Valley residents received envelopes returned to them because of insufficient postage, they were bemused. They had never seen the envelopes before and most had no idea what they contained. One recipient contacted Comox Valley RCMP.
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| May 24, 2006 | RCMP Bust Retiree For Medical Pot Man's Plants Exceeded His Permit. Is This What We Pay Police To Do
The Mounties raided them a few days earlier, cutting down some 300 marijuana plants Bert was growing to supply his 49-year-old wife and another retiree under licences from Health Canada.
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| May 10, 2006 | BC: Grow Op Law Passes B.C. - The provincial legislature has passed a law requiring electrical companies to forward billing information to municipalities.After Bill 25 is passed, electrical companies will give the city two years of electrical bills so a spike in activity can be isolated.
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| Apr 17, 2006 | Grow Op Law Erodes Your Right To Privacy Footnote: If the main marijuana public-policy issues are the risks of grow-ops in neighbourhoods and the role of criminal gangs in profiting from the industry, a different response should be considered. Allowing people to grow a handful of plants without penalty would reduce the threat to neighbourhoods and the available profits for gangs.
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| Apr 14, 2006 | Judge Throws Out Grow Op Charges Police Ammeter Use Ruled Illegal, A Rights Violation
Two men have been acquitted of charges relating to a 354-plant marijuana grow operation in an Airdrie home because the judge ruled police violated their charter rights.
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| Apr 10, 2006 | Civil Liberties Union Opposes Proposed Amendments A proposed law aimed at locating marijuana grow operations could be a valuable weapon in the battle to drive them from the North Shore, say authorities, but the proposed rule change is also raising hackles among privacy advocates.
If passed Bill 25, The Safety Standards Amendment Act, introduced in the provincial legislature Thursday, will grant municipalities the right to access electricity records of BC Hydro customers without going through the judicial system. Under the proposed law, local governments could then pass on any of that information to their police force for further investigation.
[Day by day, our rights slip away...] |
| Apr 7, 2006 | Pot Activist Not Giving Up A Supreme Court justice in Chilliwack might have dismissed medical marijuana activist Brian Carlisle's application to get back his equipment this week but he still considers the court appearance a victory of sorts.
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| Apr 6, 2006 | Medical Marijuana Company Heralds Its Public Offering TORONTO -- It's not every company that heralds its public debut with Moses Znaimer, the co-founder of CityTV, on one side and a bag of marijuana from the Canadian government on the other. But that's exactly how Cannasat Therapeutics Inc. did it Wednesday.
Cannasat bills itself as one of a handful of companies in the world that is researching and developing medicines derived from cannabis plants.
[A development to watch...] |
| Mar 21, 2006 | Desperate For A Home, People Snap Up Grow-ops CALGARY - Calgary's red-hot real-estate market is so frenzied people are lining up for condemned houses that were used as drug operations.
[Or maybe people don't believe all the hype about former grow ops being more unhealthy than homes that had regular indoor gardens] |
| Mar 20, 2006 | Canada's Growing Marijuana Problem "Cannabis is the biggest issue facing law enforcement now," says Inspector Paul Nadeau of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ).
[Too bad identify theft, break and enter and other crimes that citizens would consider the biggest problems for them aren't also where the police put their resources] |
| Mar 9, 2006 | Dopey RCMP Math Following a 14-month investigation, RCMP officers recently uncovered a clandestine cyber cartel selling marijuana seeds via the Internet. Seven persons were subsequently charged with a variety of cannabis-related offences. Trumpeting this latest victory against the "scourge of marijuana" -- their term -- the Mounties claimed that the amount of seeds they seized would fill 500 greenhouses, each with 400 plants, representing 42 million joints on the street.
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| Mar 3, 2006 | AIDS Victim Gets His Marijuana Back A Regina Medical Marijuana User Has His Plants Back.
Tom Shapiro was at police headquarters Thursday afternoon collecting the 21 marijuana plants that were seized by officers last month following a delay in the renewal of his licence to grow pot.
Shapiro arrived at the station armed with a court order for police to return the property to him.
[Why did a sick and suffering Canadian have to go through any legal repercussions in the first place? Where is the outrage?] |
| Mar 1, 2006 | RCMP Close Montreal Marijuana Seed Vendor Although the Montreal-based company Heaven's Stairway has operated brazenly since 1998 and is currently listed on Quebec's business registry, the RCMP announced Tuesday it has shut it down.
The RCMP described the large-scale bust as the first of its kind in Canada. Besides evoking Led Zeppelin's signature song for its name the company also sold seeds with quirky labels like Crippy Bud and Deep Blue Rush.
[ By attacking the very source - seeds - they may merely be preparing for when the time comes for cannabis to be legal. With all other avenues effectively shut down, corporations like Monsanto will emerge as the main distributer of seeds. (Who is really ordering the raids on seeds??? ) ] |
| Feb 24, 2006 | Conditional Discharge On Pot Charge May Be Appealed Crown prosecutors are expected to appeal a Supreme Court ruling this week that sent a young Kelowna woman home without a criminal record after pleading guilty to growing marijuana.
On Tuesday, justice Alison Beames gave Nicole Kraubner a conditional discharge after she pleaded guilty to the charge. Police discovered the grow operation May 28, 2004.
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| Feb 23, 2006 | Pot Smell Justified Dwelling Search, Judges Say VANCOUVER -- The smell of marijuana coupled with a suspect speaking a foreign language can be sufficient grounds for police to enter a private home without a search warrant, the British Columbia Court of Appeal has ruled.
The decision could expand the power of police to enter homes without warrants under certain conditions, such as an officer smelling marijuana in a dwelling.
[Say good-bye to more of our rights] |
| Feb 18, 2006 | No Hydroponics Monitoring An Abbotsford city councillor is "not happy" with the provincial government after it ruled there will be no immediate implementation of a proposal to monitor businesses selling hydroponic equipment...On the hydroponics issue, the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General told the City of Abbotsford that implementing a record-keeping system "requires careful consideration of its implications for all businesses province-wide." As a result, it concluded that "further research" would have to be carried out before government moves forward.
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