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Current Affairs 2007 - Legal (153 items)
| Nov 10, 2007 | Pot Search Legal A dreadlocked Toronto human rights worker has lost a "test case" against Canadian border officials after claiming he was targeted for a Pearson airport drug search because of his hairstyle.
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| Nov 10, 2007 | Worker's Rights Violated, Judge Rules A former pipeline worker made a good decision when he asked to have a marijuana possession charge from Kirkland Lake transferred to Kingston's Ontario Court of Justice.
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| Nov 9, 2007 | Prodigious Pot Smuggler Out On Parole Busted for shipping millions of dollars worth of pot through Saskatchewan's borders, Daren Wayne Smith is now on parole from his six-year prison sentence imposed last year -- but not for much longer if the Crown has its way.
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| Nov 3, 2007 | Emery's Bravado May End Up Costing Him Dearly Nick Wilson's long anticipated documentary on Marc Emery, The Prince of Pot, aired on CBC Newsworld's The Lens last week, painting a very bleak picture of Emery's chances of being extradited to America to face charges brought two years ago by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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| Nov 1, 2007 | Northside Man Wants Medical-Pot Regulations Relaxed Rocky Paul has been using medical marijuana to control pain and other discomforts for the last seven years.
The St. Mary's First Nation resident would like to see the rules eased up a bit so that those who need the drug can get it more easily.
Paul said as many as 30 pages of documents have to be filled out once a year by patients and their doctors in order to continue to qualify for the licence.
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| Nov 1, 2007 | Suspended Driver Sues A driver given a 24-hour suspension because police suspected he was high on marijuana is suing to have the ban removed from his records. Jugveer Singh Purewal says in a petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court that he told a Surrey police officer he was not under the influence of drugs when he was pulled over early Sept. 14 and suspended from driving for 24 hours.
Purewal said the officer didn't administer a sobriety test and he was denied the opportunity to dispute the ban because there is no mechanism to do so when a 24-hour driving suspension is based on suspected drug use.
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| Oct 26, 2007 | Immigrant Workers Found Innocent In Dope Farm Bust Five Asian immigrants arrested after they were found working on a massive rural dope farm did not know they were breaking the law, a judge has ruled.
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| Oct 25, 2007 | Trustee Charged With Growing Pot for Trafficking A Manitoba school trustee has been charged with growing marijuana and possession of marijuana for the purposes of trafficking.
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| Oct 23, 2007 | Judge Gets Tough With Pot Grower Saying the community is fed up with light sentences that do nothing to curb the "epidemic" proliferation of marijuana grow houses here, a Windsor judge Monday gave a Woodbridge, Ont., woman a 21-month sentence, six months more than what the prosecution was seeking.
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| Oct 23, 2007 | Europeans Know Drug Abuse Is an Illness, Not a Crime Europe has a drug problem, and knows it. But the Europeans' approach to it is quite different from the North American "war on drugs."
I spend 120 days a year in Europe as a travel writer, so I decided to see for myself how it's working. I talked with locals, researched European drug policies and even visited a smoky marijuana "coffee shop" in Amsterdam. I got a close look at the alternative to a war on drugs.
Europeans are well aware of the North American track record against illegal drug use.
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| Oct 22, 2007 | A Criminal Mind: Juries Can Nullify, Just Don't Tell The common law recognizes the jury's power not to convict when a law is unfair, or when it would unfairly impact upon the accused. This is known as jury nullification. The trilogy of Canadian cases from the Supreme Court of Canada that have dealt with this are R. v. Morgentaler ( 1988 ), R. v. Latimer ( 2001 ), and the recent case of R. v. Krieger ( 2006 ).
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| Oct 21, 2007 | Can Employers Test For Pot? Drug and alcohol testing programs can be implemented in workplaces in Canada -- and employees suspended or fired as a consequence of the results.
But Karen Izzard of the Canadian Human Rights Commission said Friday that employers who choose to do so face human-rights complaints or lawsuits.
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| Oct 19, 2007 | ONTARIO JUDGE RULES CANNABIS PROHIBITION INVALID Today in an Oshawa Court, the trial judge in the 'Tom, Dick, and
Harry' case dismissed the charges against them, for simple possession
of marijuana. He said that in his view the marijuana prohibition had
no valid force or effect. ...He said the cases against Tom, Dick, and Harry, are dismissed because
the law is not there to charge them or convict them. The exact terms
of his decision will be available later, after an exchange of faxes
with the Court house.
[Every person arrested for a cannabis offense should read this important information and make their lawyer aware of it - this is a federal law and should be applied the same across the country] |
| Oct 15, 2007 | Harper Gets Tough On Drugs, Soft On Logic Harper promises that someone caught selling even the smallest amount of drugs will face harsh penalties. Frankly, doesn't the government have better things to devote tens of millions of dollars to than chasing around people dealing a few grams of marijuana? Wait a minute: five years ago, wasn't there widespread support for legalizing marijuana?
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| Oct 11, 2007 | Marijuana Party Candidate Gets Three Months For Trafficking VANCOUVER - Former Marijuana Party candidate Marc Boyer has been sentenced to three months in jail after pleading guilty in Vancouver Provincial Court to possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.
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| Oct 4, 2007 | Drug Dealer Needed Cash to Pay Lawyer Three weeks after receiving a conditional sentence for selling marijuana, a Regina man was back peddling pot once again -- this time to raise money to pay his lawyer.
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| Oct 3, 2007 | BC: US War Deserter Is Held After Pot Arrest In Nelson NELSON - A U.S. army deserter has been arrested in Nelson.
Robin Long, 24, was arrested by police on a countrywide warrant on Monday.
Long, who is from Ontario, was in Nelson visiting friends and staying with fellow war resisters.
But Nelson police Chief Dan Maluta said Long was arrested as a result of regular police work, not because they were targeting war resisters.
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| Oct 1, 2007 | Tory Pot Smokers Should Be The First To Turn Themselves Into Police! Stephen Harper is about to declare another 'War on drugs.'
Statistics show that roughly 16.8% of Canadians use marijuana / cannabis. You therefore have to assume that there MUST be a couple of Conservative Members of Parliament who fit into the 16.8% number. ...
It is time for EVERY card carrying member of the Conservative Party of Canada who uses cannabis to lead by example and turn themselves into the police immediately whether or not they support Harper's new initiative.
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| Oct 1, 2007 | PR: New National Anti-Drug Strategy plays politics with people's lives TORONTO, Oct. 1 /CNW/ - The new National Anti-Drug Strategy to be officially
unveiled this week by federal Health Minister Tony Clement is a huge step
backward for Canada's response to HIV/AIDS, said the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal
Network today...."It seems clear that the new drug strategy is based on ideology instead of
evidence, and from every angle - human rights, public health, or use of
taxpayers' dollars - that's irresponsible and unacceptable."
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| Sep 30, 2007 | 'Party's Over' For Druggies: Health Minister OTTAWA -- Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: "The party's over" for illicit drug users. "In the next few days, we're going to be back in the business of an anti-drug strategy," Clement said. "In that sense, the party's over."
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