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Current Affairs 2007 - Cultivation (119 items)
| Nov 12, 2007 | Legalize Pot, a Key Drug Fuelling Gang Wars Policy of Prohibition Only Helps Organized Crime Pocket the Profits From a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry ...The rise of gangs in this province is due primarily to the immense profits to be had from B.C. bud.
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| Nov 12, 2007 | Pot Trade Slows "It's very simple," said Stephen Easton, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C. "Canadian marijuana production costs are met in Canadian dollars, and those are worth more now."
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| Nov 5, 2007 | Professor's Grant Goes To 'Pot' The goal of the cannabis research is to find a way to block the production of psychoactive cannabinoids that produce the mind-altering effects in users so cannabis can become a useful crop for oil, fibre and even food, said Facchini.
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| Nov 5, 2007 | More Calgary Children Seized From Grow Ops More than 60 per cent of all children seized from drug houses in Alberta under the year-old Drug Endangered Children Act were in the Calgary region. Alberta Children's Services figures show 23 of the 38 children apprehended under the act came from the Calgary area, which includes Banff, Cochrane and High River.
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| Nov 3, 2007 | Oh, to Stumble Upon a Field of Dreams ... Well, they're at it again. Like a swarm of locusts, the boys in blue have been tromping their ways through the wilds of Nova Scotia this fall wreaking havoc on the well-tended crops of several upstanding, run of the mill criminals who worked oh so diligently to maintain their lush greenery that not only brings happiness to those throughout the land but also creates a future for agricultural up-and-comers.
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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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| Oct 29, 2007 | Growing Fear As the trees change from green to red and orange along Highway 400, city dwellers make fewer weekend treks hours north of Toronto, through winding country roads, into the heart of cottage country.
The seasonal holidaymakers are replaced instead by the criminals involved in outdoor marijuana growops who each year descend upon the region's remote swampland, fields and forests to harvest their crop, but who this year are behind levels of violence so unprecedented that it has residents and cottagers thoroughly frightened.
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| Oct 28, 2007 | 'The Bud Stops Here,' - Inspection Team On average, the Township's Public Safety Inspection Team ( PSIT ) is finding evidence of eight marijuana grow operations per week.
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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 19, 2007 | Choose Your Poison On the farming side, any policy that successfully reduces the production of marijuana to a significant degree will utterly crash the economy of most of the interior of British Columbia. Mining, fishing, forestry and food farming, the mainstays of the interior economy, home to two million, have all been in inexorable decline for decades. The only thing keeping most families afloat is production of marijuana or jobs in retail and other industries supported by the proceeds of sales of marijuana by the growers.
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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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| Sep 28, 2007 | Pot Exports Harmed By Strong Loonie The strong Canadian dollar has hit the illegal marijuana sector just as it has other industries that export to the United States, one of Canada's best known legalization advocates said Thursday.
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| Sep 27, 2007 | Stop Selling of Grow-Op Equipment - Fire Chiefs Canada's fire chiefs are calling for the government to restrict the sale of hydroponics equipment in an attempt to quash the proliferation of clandestine marijuana grow operations.
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| Sep 27, 2007 | ON: Time For City To Grow Op After three hours punching each other silly over issues like amending the fireworks bylaw, the licensing and standards committee is finally ready to hear my deputation September 11.
I'm here on behalf of the Canadian Cannabis Society to speak to the final agenda item: how the city plans to police pot and divvy up the proceeds of grow op busts.
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| Sep 27, 2007 | Stop Selling of Grow-Op Equipment - Fire Chiefs Canada's fire chiefs are calling for the government to restrict the sale of hydroponics equipment in an attempt to quash the proliferation of clandestine marijuana grow operations... "These operations create a significant hazard for the community and for the health and safety of firefighters not only in Niagara, but across the country," Ontario Fire Marshal Pat Burke said Wednesday.
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| Sep 17, 2007 | Regulating Hydroponics Start Of Slippery Slope But lost amid all the good news is another initiative the City of Surrey is proposing - a registration system for hydroponic equipment.
...What happens to the information collected? Do the police and fire department make a quick visit to make sure only tomatoes are being grown? Do you have to undergo a criminal record check to grow vegetables?
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| Sep 14, 2007 | NS: Marijuana Court Case Turns Into Constitutional Concern However, Ricky Logan Simpson, 57, told the jury hearing his Nova Scotia Supreme Court trial on three drug charges that he should not be considered a criminal because the laws forbidding the possession, growing and distribution of marijuana are unconstitutional.
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| Sep 14, 2007 | 'Not A Case Of Turning A Blind Eye': Lawyer FIVE Chinese immigrants should be given the benefit of the doubt and cleared of charges they knowingly participated in a massive marijuana grow operation, their lawyer argued Thursday....All five testified in their own defence and told court they didn't realize the crop they were working on was marijuana. Some believed it was fruit or vegetable, while one man thought it was "Chinese medicinal herbs".
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