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Current Affairs 2007 - Cultivation (119 items)
| Sep 12, 2007 | NS: Judge Reins In Accused In Marijuana Case Ricky Logan Simpson, who is defending himself, sighed and shook his head when Justice Felix Cacchione intervened for about the 12th time Tuesday to prevent him from questioning one of four RCMP officers during the second day of his trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
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| Sep 12, 2007 | BC: Just 300 Grow Ops To Go A marijuana grow busting program is being hailed as a tremendous success, with a 65 per cent drop in home plantations expected this year. The remainder will be wiped out this fall.
Surrey Fire Chief Len Garis received B.C. Hydro records in January 2007 indicating the location of 1,000 homes with extraordinary power consumption - considered a "signature" for marijuana grow operations.
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| Sep 4, 2007 | BC: Sea King Helps Nab Grow Operations The Canadian Forces participation in the annual RCMP marijuana-eradication program - called Operation SABOT within the military - involves the provision of CF helicopters as observation platforms and transportation for RCMP teams hunting for grow sites.
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| Aug 31, 2007 | Realtor Accused of Growing Dope Woman and Husband Allegedly Ran Two Grows; One at Home, One in Suite
RICHMOND - A Richmond real-estate agent has been charged with running marijuana grow-ops -- one at a home where five children were found.
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| Aug 31, 2007 | BC: Marijuana Busts Set a Record Team Finds 19,000 Plants at 350 Sites in Nine-Day Campaign
Island police say they've destroyed the largest amount of marijuana since they started a summer eradication program eight years ago.
A combined team of RCMP, municipal police and Canadian Forces personnel found more than 19,000 plants at 350 sites during a nine-day campaign that ended this week.
[Wow, the world is safer now ] |
| Aug 11, 2007 | Pot Grower: Cops' Crop Price Is Way Too High A local pot grower thinks the RCMP was high as a kite in assessing the value of some weed they seized in a recent drug bust in Stewiacke.
Comments made by police in a recent newspaper article indicating that 170 plants taken in a late-July operation had a value of $200,000 are "craziness," according to the grower, who contacted The Chronicle Herald to say there isn't that much money in marijuana.
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| Aug 11, 2007 | Potmobile Busted In Ferry Lineup WEST VANCOUVER -- It was a business venture worthy of famed '70s potheads Cheech and Chong: Police officers called to investigate a possible drunk driver discovered $60,000 worth of marijuana plants being grown inside a car.
The 140 plants -- in two stages of growth -- were being farmed inside a Toyota RAV4.
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| Aug 10, 2007 | ON: Marijuana Mayhem Whether it's a new townhouse development, a run-down apartment complex or a luxury home in an up-scale neighbourhood, marijuana growing laboratories, ( or marijuana grow labs, as they've come to be called ), continue to appear at an alarming rate in Peel. ...Meanwhile, unlike marijuana labs, methamphetamine ( meth ) labs are new to Peel Police, with the first one ever in the Region being discovered in Mississauga last summer. However, experts believe there are more here.
[They only have to look to the US to see that more meth labs appear when it becomes difficult to grow cannabis gardens. People will be longing for the days when they were only living beside plants.] |
| Aug 4, 2007 | BC: Medicinal Pot Grower Sees Huge Demand VICTORIA - A Vancouver Island grower of organic marijuana is being inundated with pleas for pot from disease sufferers, but Health Canada says he can supply only one person, a provincial court trial has been told.
Eric Nash said he wrote to Canadian Health Minister Tony Clement with a list of 121 people, all approved by Health Canada to use marijuana as medicine and asking him to grow it for them. One of them was a former RCMP officer diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
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| 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 | 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 22, 2007 | Medicinal Pot Battle Hits Home Rudy Seegobin is licensed by Health Canada to grow his own pot for medicinal reasons.
Seegobin, 41, suffers from Crohn's disease, a twisted spinal cord and severe arthritis... The only problem is his house is adjoined to another and the neighbour claims the smell of marijuana permeates through the walls.
[If someone was growing vegetables, would they be faced with the same scenario? Police propaganda spread via the media is to blame for situations like this] |
| 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 14, 2007 | What's Really Fuelling This Economic Boom? While Canada ranked behind the U.S. and Mexico - which "may be the world's largest cannabis herb producers," according to the report - we're still known around the world for our B.C. bud. And with just 13.1 per cent of Canada's population, according to 2004 figures, our 40 per cent share of the nation's pot production adds up to a lot of grow ops per capita.
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| Jul 11, 2007 | What's Really Fuelling This Economic Boom? ...Linking unrelated trends can be dangerous, as any statistician will tell you, but we can't help but wonder how much of B.C.'s economic and real estate booms are really due to our standing as national pot kings.
There's got to be some way all those people are affording all that high-priced real estate -- the average B.C. house price reached a record high of $454,945 in May, according to the Real Estate Weekly...But how strong would our economy be if grow ops -- and all the money they generate both directly and indirectly -- were taken out of the equation? ..During B.C.'s pot boom, real estate prices continue to climb unbelievably high.
Coincidence? Maybe.
[No coincidence, and politicians know it. Remember the raid on the BC legislature and the grow op raids tied to the same people..Coincidence? Maybe.] |
| Jul 7, 2007 | BC: Dope Bylaw Ignored Landowners are turning a blind eye to North Cowichan's bylaw mandating bi-monthly property inspections.
In February, the municipality introduced the bylaw to crack down on marijuana growing operations.... Of the North Cowichan properties Allan manages through Rowan Property Management Ltd., half of the owners instructed Allan to ignore the bylaw.
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| Jul 7, 2007 | ON: Niagara Grow-Op Strategy Praised By Province At a press conference outside the Niagara Falls police station, Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor announced the Liberal government was expanding its "guns, gangs and grow-ops project" to combat violence and build safer communities.
[The violence and economy created by prohibition becomes larger and more entrenched every year at the expense of civil society - but not enough members seem to notice or care - yet] |
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