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Current Affairs 2007 - Cultivation (119 items)
| Dec 21, 2007 | BC: Protest Targets New Minimums Sidney - Protesters waved flags, shook signs and yelled questions outside Saanich Gulf Islands MP Gary Lunn's office in Sidney on Monday. One even lit up a marijuana cigarette and had a few puffs.
The gathering was part of a national day of demonstration against the proposed federal Bill C-26, which would raise mandatory minimum sentences for cannabis ( marijuana ) offences, including cultivation and trafficking.
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| Dec 21, 2007 | Where Have All The Grow Op Kids Gone? Real estate agent Tammy Wing Yan Tsui and her husband Clement Kin Keung Cheung were charged with two counts of production of a controlled substance and two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking as a result of the July 17 raids at 4382 Blair Dr. ( where the children were found ) and at 7471 Minoru Blvd.
It is unknown at this point to what happened to the five children.
"We don't know what happened to those kids," said Linda Korbin, executive director of the B.C. Association of Social Workers.
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| Dec 20, 2007 | Grow-Ops Growing Bigger, Going Rural Crime analysis shows marijuana grow operations are moving to bigger houses, hiding behind more bushes and growing more dope than ever.
The grow-ops' changing profile has emerged in response to authorities' crackdowns, says RCMP crime analyst Parvir Girn.
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| Dec 19, 2007 | New Tool To Detect Stolen Electricity BC Hydro and Crime Stoppers have announced a new enforcement tool that they hope will encourage people to report suspected marijuana growing operations.
Addresses of suspected illegal drug operations reported to the Crime Stoppers tip line can be forwarded to BC Hydro energy diversion investigators.
An unexplained spike in electrical energy use in a residence or business is one way to identify an indoor marijuana farm, which is why the meter is often bypassed and stolen electricity routed to the grow operation.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | No Laws Needed To Protect B.C. Children Found In Grow-Ops Social workers in the Fraser Valley were called in last week to deal with three young children found in a grow-op. Despite the wearying familiarity of the scene, they had to make a child-protection decision in the absence of any specific policy.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | Production of Potent Pot Flourishing and Lucrative The production of increasingly potent marijuana continues to flourish in Canada despite a decline in grow-operation seizures in British Columbia over the past four years, the RCMP says.
The national police force's annual report on the illicit drug trade concludes that pot cultivation remains "an evolving and very lucrative" industry.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | Tip Line Aims To Target Grow-ops B.C. Hydro and Crime Stoppers have announced a new enforcement tool that they hope will encourage people to report suspected marijuana growing operations.
Addresses of suspected illegal drug operations reported to the Crime Stoppers tip line can be forwarded to energy diversion investigators with B.C. Hydro. Hydro investigators will be able to search for evidence of electricity theft.
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| Dec 16, 2007 | NS: Justice Unit Holds Power To Evict Guilty or not, people suspected of certain crimes are being turfed from their homes across the province.
So far, occupants of 23 homes, apartments or trailers have been evicted since the summer, when a new division of the Justice Department began to fully enforce the new provincial Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act. Proclaimed Jan. 7, the act is intended to target suspected drug use and sales, prostitution, illegal gaming, bootlegging or child sexual abuse.
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| Dec 15, 2007 | BC Hydro Takes Tough Stand On Marijuana Growing BC Hydro and the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General announced Friday the power company is partnering with CrimeStoppers to encourage people to report suspected grow operations.
With the new partnership, BC Hydro's energy diversion investigators will now be able to obtain the addresses of suspected growing operations reported to the CrimeStoppers' Tip Line.
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| Dec 14, 2007 | Police Pull Children From Abby Grow-Op Police officers were conducting the search warrant in the 3200 block of Firhill Drive, but while investigating a marijuana grow operation, they became concerned about the levels of carbon monoxide.
The carbon monoxide levels were found to be in excess of 100 parts per million [the hazard increases dramatically above 30 ppm, according to experts].
Police also found three children under the age of 12 in the home, who are now under the care of non-parental family members.
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| Dec 13, 2007 | Grow Ops Are For Grown-ups o whom it may concern,
I am writing to say how outraged I am after reading this news item last Monday. As a mother of three, I can understand how parents across the country must feel. While it seems that we live in a fairly liberal society where we respect the rights of our children, there are some things that should remain sacred. No matter how many reasons parents might give, there is just no excuse for letting toddlers run a large-scale marijuana grow op.
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| Dec 13, 2007 | Compassion Pleaded After Drugs Convictions Pete Young said he wasn't trying to hide anything -- he was offering marijuana from a downtown location to ease people's pain.
He said doctors knew. So did the police.
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| Dec 12, 2007 | Grow Op Storage Costing Thousands Calgary police are taking steps to get rid of eight years' worth of seized marijuana grow operation equipment they have been paying to store in an Edmonton warehouse -- a move that could have a ripple effect for police services across the country.
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| Dec 11, 2007 | Grow-Op Above Daycare About 18 months ago some mysterious people took over the commercial space atop the Yeshiva Gedola daycare in Outremont, without introducing themselves to their neighbours.
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| Nov 24, 2007 | We Need An Open, Comprehensive Grow-Op List Two weeks ago in this column, I asked whether listing agents should be required to disclose that a home was, or might have been, a marijuana grow operation, or whether they should disclose only if the seller tells them it was a grow-op?
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| Nov 23, 2007 | Harper's Misguided War on Pot Justice Minister Rob Nicholson's new package of mandatory sentences for marijuana dealers, announced on Tuesday, seems to involve some perverse incentives. Under the bill, a grower who is caught with between one and 200 plants and is found to have the intention of trafficking will receive a non-negotiable minimum of six months in prison, unless he can show that he is eligible for judicially ordered treatment under the auspices of a drug court. The maximum penalty for having a few pot plants on the premises will be increased to 14 years.
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| Nov 22, 2007 | The Marijuana Trade Scores of Vietnamese "family units" using fear, trust and relatives have taken a stranglehold on the multi-billion dollar illegal B.C. bud trade in Canada.
The operations, which revolve around how debts are repaid and secrets kept, are primarily organized through family ties and are dotted across the country.
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| Nov 21, 2007 | ON: Cops Publicize Grow-Op Sites Moving into a new place in Windsor and want the peace of mind of knowing it wasn't previously used as a marijuana growing operation?
Windsor police can help.
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| Nov 21, 2007 | Drug Law Will Fill Jails, Expert Warns B.C.'s already crowded jails will need to squeeze in another 700 marijuana growers per year if new mandatory sentences are enacted, an analysis of sentencing figures suggests.
"You basically need a new prison to facilitate that," said Darryl Plecas, a criminologist at the University College of the Fraser Valley who studies marijuana sentencing. "You're going to have hundreds, if not thousands, of people going to jail who aren't going now."
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| Nov 12, 2007 | Trustee In Drug Bust Plans To Attend Board Meeting A Turtle River School Division trustee facing drug charges said he will attend Tuesday evening's board meeting, to prevent fellow trustees from kicking him off the school board.
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