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Current Affairs 2007 - Legal (153 items)
| Aug 3, 2007 | Drug House Forfeited To Crown RCMP Say It Is Most Expensive Home Yet Seized
A Surrey drug house worth $723,000 has been forfeited to the state, making it the most expensive one yet.
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| Aug 3, 2007 | BC: Pot Plants Keep User From B.C. Hearing VANCOUVER - A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has thrown out a complaint filed by a medical marijuana user who objected to a no-drugs-on-the-job policy while seeking work as an extra in the television and film industry.
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| Jul 31, 2007 | Drugs And The Police In 1967, John Conroy was a clean-cut University of B.C. student and a member of the varsity swim team. It wasn't until after he graduated that he formed the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws ( NORML ) in Canada, becoming its first president....Today, an estimated 600,000 Canadians have been busted for pot possession. A recent United Nations drug report said five million Canadians smoked pot in 2004, the fifth-highest percentage of usage in the world.
[ The 600,000 Canadians with criminal records was true in the early 1990's, but more than 1.5 million are now estimated to have criminal records.] |
| Jul 31, 2007 | Evansburg Man Plans To Sue Police A man from Evansburg is suing the RCMP for seizing marijuana plants he says he was growing for medicinal purposes. Two years ago, Steve Chorney received a licence under the federal medical-marijuana program to grow a limited number of plants to manage chronic pain in his legs, which has prevented him from working since 1996.
At about 10 a.m. on July 23, Chorney said three RCMP members arrived at his house in three separate vehicles, made a bee-line for the plants and started pulling them out of the ground.
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| Jul 30, 2007 | Men Get Jail Time For Impersonating Police Officers A Superior Court judge showed little sympathy on Friday for three men who dressed as police officers while trying to rip off a marijuana grow-op near Head Lake in 2003.
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| Jul 24, 2007 | AB: RCMP Seize Medical Pot User's Plants An Evansburg man who takes pot for his pain fears he's about to get sicker after police seized his weed yesterday. ..."According to Health Canada, there is no licence in place for this individual," said Cpl. James House of the Evansburg RCMP.
Chorney, though, said he was in the midst of getting his licence renewed in order to move his plants outdoors.
[Many legal exemptees have stated that the police subject them to raids and prosecution after the government fails to provide them with timely protection. How can police cause so much harm to the sick and still sleep at night?] |
| Jul 23, 2007 | Canada Deserves a Full Debate Abou Canada deserves a full debate about marijuana. But it serves no purpose to malign prohibition per es as simple-minded. Most people are law-abiding. When the law prohibits pot or liquor, millions are content to do as they're told.
[Welcome to the nanny state mentality] |
| Jul 21, 2007 | Family Values Going Up In Smoke Provincial police say the mother, in her 40s, and the daughter, in her 20s, lit up while sitting in a parked car on Harbour Road before the start of Wednesday' Nickelback concert. Call us old-fashioned, but we find it deeply unsettling when parents take recreational drugs with their kids. And far from being the exception, family drug cases are coming to court with increasingly regularity.
[Kids in their 20's are considered adults, and it would be perfectly okay for them to go to a bar and drink with a parent, or share cigarettes... hypocrites] |
| Jul 20, 2007 | BC: Five Children Detained Five children have been detained by the Ministry of Family and Social Services after they were found in a large marijuana grow-op. Police yesterday said the children, all younger than 16, were at a home in the 4300-block Blair Drive when police raided the premises Tuesday and found over 1,000 marijuana plants. A man was arrested at the scene.
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| Jul 18, 2007 | Marijuana Maverick Says It's About Rights Two weeks ago a civil suit, launched by Reimer, was thrown out of court with Ottawa Justice C. McKinnon saying that Reimer "was the author of his own misfortune."...
"It's not publicity," says Reimer, who's been lighting up joints on a daily basis since he was 13. "What I want to do is to make sure people stand up for their right."
With tears filling his eyes, he adds, "I love my county; it's getting less and less free all the time and it's very scary."
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| Jul 17, 2007 | Marijuana Possession Ruling May Cause Some 'Confusion' A recent ruling about Canada's pot laws might make it difficult to crack down on simple possession, legal experts say.
But don't rush out and roll a joint in public just yet.
Alan Young, Osgoode Hall law professor and marijuana legalization activist, said yesterday the grace period may not last long and doesn't stop cops from doing their job.
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| Jul 13, 2007 | Judge rules Canada's pot possession laws unconstitutional A Toronto judge has ruled that Canada's pot possession laws are unconstitutional after a man argued the country's medicinal marijuana regulations are flawed. The man has no medical issues and doesn't want a medical exemption to smoke marijuana....In court, the man argued that the federal government only made it policy to provide marijuana to those who need it, but never made it an actual law. Because of that, he argued, all possession laws, whether medicinal or not, should be quashed....The judge agreed and dismissed the charges.Borenstein has given prosecutors two weeks before he makes his ruling official.
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| Jul 12, 2007 | Walking Backwards Into A Wall If politics is supposed to lead the nation in debate, we're being taken for quite a ride when it comes to pot and the law.
Discovering that, in 2006, Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Halifax experienced up to 50-per-cent increases in cannabis-related arrests, is like walking backwards into a wall.... It's about time that we get over the stigma associated with many of the false assumptions that dominate this debate, and pragmatically move forward on eliminating pot prohibition.
As someone who has both walked the streets as a member of the RCMP's drug squad and examined legislation for passage into law as a Senator, I have a sharp understanding of what constitutes a criminal.
Those that use pot just don't fit the profile.
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| Jul 9, 2007 | An Apology Required WINNIPEG police officers were understandably dismayed that the man accused of shooting the officers in December has been released on bail, the judge having been convinced Daniell Anderson was neither a risk to the community or of fleeing.
Their abusive comments, however, directed toward the judge are unacceptable and the officers must formally apologize to Court of Queen's Bench Justice Karen Simonsen. ...One officer was heard to say someone -- Daniell Anderson? -- should have been killed, while the mutterings of others called into disrepute the justice system. Said in the heat of the moment, they were nonetheless alarming remarks.
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| Jul 8, 2007 | Your Fate If Arrested For Pot Smoking? Marc-Boris St-Maurice has been arrested so many times for marijuana possession that he serves as a one-man clinical study in the fate reserved for those caught with small amounts of pot.
The study's theme would be inconsistency.
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| Jul 6, 2007 | Reimer Loses Court Battle
Marijuana Activist Rick Reimer Has Lost His Day In Court.
In a written decision released Thursday, Ottawa Justice C. McKinnon threw out the $3 million civil suit launched by the former Pembroke lawyer, who possesses a medical exemption to smoke, grow and cultivate marijuana to treat his Multiple Sclerosis.
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| Jul 4, 2007 | Dubai Prisoner Has Island Ties Canadian anti-drug advocate Bert Tatham is currently appealing a four-year jail sentence after being found guilty of possession for trace amounts of hashish and two dried poppy flowers in Dubai.
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| Jul 2, 2007 | Landlord Jailed For Renting Grow-Op House To Family A Niagara Falls landlord will spend the next 60 days behind bars for knowingly renting a toxic home to an unsuspecting family of five.
[How many landlords across Canada would be in jail for renting moldy units (whether used for gardens or not) if they were all held accountable? This case appears to be a mix of racism and prejudice] |
| Jun 28, 2007 | BC: 'Awesome' Teacher On Pot Charge An "awesome" counsellor and teacher at Lillooet Secondary is to appear in court next month, charged with trafficking marijuana.
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| Jun 28, 2007 | MB: Ex-Cop Faces Grow-Op Charge A retired Winnipeg police officer who recently came under scrutiny for his role in the wrongful conviction of James Driskell has been charged with running a marijuana grow operation in his home.
Bill VanderGraaf, 56, was arrested in April after police received a tip that he was allegedly manufacturing drugs in the basement of his East Kildonan home.
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