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Current Affairs 2007 - Legal (153 items)
| Jan 18, 2007 | Reefer Madness' No Reason to Seize More Children BC: Why is the B.C. Association of Social Workers beating the bushes to have more children taken into care?
Association spokesman Paul Jenkinson has been stumping the provincial media urging that the government start seizing children found in homes with marijuana-growing operations. There's "a crisis" out there, in his opinion, and fast action by Victoria is required. ... Jenkinson is peddling reefer madness. His suggestion that we begin seizing more children and putting them in provincial care would only exacerbate what is already a bad situation.
[Hooray! Sentiments from a perspective outside the status quo] |
| Jan 17, 2007 | Schools Designated Drug Free Zones Drug dealers with a tendency for hanging around elementary schools have been put on official notice.
Stay away from the kids.
"If people are selling drugs in school zones, be prepared to face bigger consequences," said Const. Tim Lyons of the 100 Mile House RCMP.
[This is another classic example of how Canada has been adopting many US drug war strategies] |
| Jan 13, 2007 | Drug Paraphernalia Seized Lotus Store Owners Arrested Officers in the drug and vice squad raided a Main Street store for the second time in two years.
More than 600 pieces of drug paraphernalia were seized from Lotus after York Regional Police descended on the shop following an investigation that began late last year.
A man and two women from East Gwillimbury, all in their late 20s, have been charged with selling instruments for illicit drug use.
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| Jan 13, 2007 | Man Gets Six Months For Evading Tax On Marijuana Raid Netted $190,000; $47,132 Left Owing
An Ottawa man was sentenced to six months in jail yesterday for failing to pay nearly $50,000 in taxes on revenue from growing marijuana.... Mr. Papadopoulos said Mr. Le could have reported the earnings as either "business" or "other" income on his tax return.
"You don't have to tell us where it's coming from, but you have to report it," said Mr. Papadopoulos, adding the return could still be audited if it meets certain criteria.
[You're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't] |
| Jan 12, 2007 | Government Created A System Benefitting The Worst One Percent The disturbing trend by RCMP to arrest and detain people for marijuana possession, trafficking and usage is irresponsible in this day and age.
After numerous commissions, hundreds of thousands of hours of governmental time consumed studying marijuana, the consensus in Canada remains that marijuana should not be illegal and the denial of this most natural and basic medicine is extreme to the point of undue hardship.
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| Jan 12, 2007 | Cops Blame Cop For Blowing Bust Neighbours are angry and the RCMP are apologetic, but it was a series of unfortunate happenstances that allowed the purveyors of a Pitt Meadows pot house to get off with a moving truck full of bud.
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| Jan 12, 2007 | Cheech And Chong Would Approve Of This Ruling A Toronto construction manager who surreptitiously videotaped two employees in their pickup truck during a lunch break, and later accused them of smoking marijuana, violated their rights to privacy, the Ontario Labour Relations Board has ruled.
The videotape is not admissible as evidence in a hearing to determine whether the employer was justified in firing the two, although the manager's first-hand observations will be considered, the labour board said.
A summary of the case, reported this week in a labour law bulletin published by Toronto-based Lancaster House, said Canadian arbitrators are divided on how far employers can go in investigating suspected wrongdoing.
In the case of the Toronto construction workers, The labour board said the employer has the right to monitor on-the-job performance and behaviour, but does not have the right to place employees under surveillance on their own time.
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| Jan 11, 2007 | When Cops Inhale Did the Toronto Police narcs who swooped down on the Church of the Universe congregation in the Beaches, arresting 22 and laying 205 pot charges, actually inhale?
That's a loaded question for those worried about lack of accountability when it comes to officers breaking the law during investigations.
And if some of the arrestees are right, coppers did toke on-scene in the course of their reconnoitering.
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| Jan 9, 2007 | Gravely Ill The Law Is An Ass.
Or at least the ones that impose criminal sanctions for using or providing marijuana to ease symptoms of illness and disease are. That's what 93 per cent of Canadians seem to suggest when they say, as they did in a 2006 Maclean's Magazine poll, that they support the legal use of marijuana for medical purposes.
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| Jan 5, 2007 | Compassion Club Weed Out Their Concerns With Raid Members of the Mid-Island Compassion Club will be gathering for a special meeting on Sunday to discuss the latest developments within their group.
Those developments, says club chair Mark Russell, are significant.
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| Jan 5, 2007 | Cannabis Activist Speaks Out on Raid and Booze Local marijuana activist Mik Mann is worried a recent police raid of a Coombs compassion club means bad news for those who legally grow and consume the herb.
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| Jan 5, 2007 | Trial Date Set For Pot Grower AMHERST - A trial date has finally been set for a Maccan man who claims he was growing marijuana to help himself and 300 others with medical conditions, but it will still be months before Rick Simpson faces a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge and jury.
In Supreme Court on Thursday, Mr. Simpson's two-week trial was slated to begin Sept. 10, 25 months after police raided his property and allegedly seized more than 1,200 marijuana plants. Mr. Simpson also launched a challenge under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It was heard just before Christmas, but the court banned reporting both the evidence and its decision until the jury hearing Mr. Simpson's case begins deliberating.
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| Jan 3, 2007 | Medicinal Marijuana Grow-Op Halted Trail resident Peter Roglich is left bewildered after local RCMP seized roughly 200 marijuana plants from his personal grow-op last week.
According to Roglich, he and his wife have both been diagnosed with Hepatitis C, are using the plants for exclusively for medicinal purposes; and have been licensed to do so for the past six months.
Roglich says he has a certified licence through Health Canada and cannot understand what provoked the RCMP to enter his home.
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