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Current Affairs 2007 - Cultivation (119 items)
| Feb 13, 2007 | Man Shot By Masked Trio During Violent Grow Rip A 38-year-old Richmond man is still in hospital recovering from a gunshot wound sustained in a marijuana grow rip operation Saturday night....A neighbour said RCMP showed up in the area looking not only for the three suspects, but the victim as well.
[ If there was no prohibition, there would be no stories like this, therefore it is prohibition related, not drug related] |
| Feb 12, 2007 | BC 'Exports' Marijuana Expertise Worldwide A different kind of brain drain is under way in B.C. as marijuana growers share their billions of dollars worth of skills with a worldwide audience.
"We think they're exporting their expertise," said Supt. Paul Nadeau, director of the RCMP's national drug branch.
"We've heard of it on an international scale." ....Sgt. Urquhart was reluctant to expand on the nature of the connections and the organization involved.
But when Supt. Nadeau was asked who in B.C. is exporting their skills, his answer was simple -- "Everybody."
[After possibly watching the South Park (1999) movie again, US officials were inspired to deny the existence of the internet and other factors, and directly blame Canadians once again for their woes] |
| Feb 11, 2007 | Grow-Ops 'Subsidized' Canada's Crown mortgage corporation is "subsidizing" marijuana grow-ops with millions of dollars each year, some MPs say.
Tory MP Patrick Brown said the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. paid out $50-$80 million in insurance claims related to criminal activity last year -- including pot-growing operations disguised as family homes. He says policies must be adopted so insurance payouts covering criminals don't drive up premiums for honest home-buyers.
[More prohibition related costs] |
| Jan 29, 2007 | MP Wants War On Grow-Ops
Karygiannis plans to press for mandatory minimum sentences that would work on ascale. More than three plants would net two years in jail, between 21-50 would garner a five-year sentence, 50-100 would get seven years and more than 100 would earn a 14-year lock-up, he suggested. He plans to introduce the plan as a motion that could be studied by a Parliamentary committee.
[We can then build more prisons then schools... brilliant] |
| Jan 27, 2007 | Police Raids Target Pot 'Clones,' Growing Gear Law enforcement's latest salvo against the seemingly endless number of indoor marijuana grow operations across the city involves the arrests this week of a group allegedly selling growing equipment, supplies and the "clones" used to reproduce the leafy, green crops.
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| Jan 25, 2007 | Four Kids Seized In Grow Op Bust AB: Police arrested a pregnant mother and seized her four young children after a drug raid on a home in the northeast Calgary community of Temple.
The search of the marijuana grow operation marks the third time children have been taken into custody since Alberta's Drug-endangered Children Act came into effect in November.
Two of the children, who range in age from two to nine, were taken from the home on Templeton Circle N.E. The two older children were in school at the time of the raid, but were picked up later by Child and Family Services officials.
[This trend of seizing children of people busted with illegal substances is deeply disturbing at many levels.
While many parents have the gut feeling that this makes a bad situation much, much worse, there is no evidence or data they can look at to support or dispute that families are hurt far worse by the state mandated separation than any other factor. At the very least, can society not demand some accountability in this matter?
We know from our history that removing children from their homes has gone on since the beginning, for very despicable reasons, usually racial in nature. Could that happen against a backdrop of voter disapproval? No, society as a whole is complicit in these crimes against humanity.] |
| Jan 25, 2007 | Living In Grow-Op Danger BC: As many as 30 per cent of the 150 grow operations inspected and shut down by the City of Abbotsford last year may have housed children living in dangerous conditions.
"In many searches we've located hazardous equipment and chemicals in areas that children often pay around and in some cases, sleep," he said...."Parents and others who expose children to such risks need to know their behaviour is unacceptable, and there are consequences.
[If parents can legally grow cannabis, then it is not hazardous. If parents grow hydroponic vegetables it is not hazardous. But if parents grow some unauthorized plants, it is hazardous. More proof the drug war is illogical.] |
| Jan 20, 2007 | Marijuana Growers Lose Houses A court decision this week doubled the number of marijuana growers forced to turn over their homes since local authorities began taking an aggressive approach to the problem five years ago.
Eight houses in Waterloo Region have now been ordered forfeited following changes in the law to make it easier in 2001, with another case scheduled for a hearing in March.
That puts local police and prosecutors on the leading edge in Ontario as they go after lucrative marijuana grow houses.
[The more drug warriors profit from prohibition, the more entrenched it becomes] |
| Jan 19, 2007 | Pot Grower Dodges Jail Term Growing pot for medical marijuana crusader Grant Krieger won't mean jail for a former Calgary man, a judge ruled yesterday.
Justice Beth Hughes agreed with defence lawyer Adriano Iovinelli that jail time wasn't necessary for Mark James Maki's involvement with the Compassion Club.
"Mr. Maki's motivation for these offences, while certainly against the law and misguided, were to assist the Compassion Club and it's members," Hughes said.
The 577 plants seized in October 2001 and February 2002 had a value of about $600,000 to $800,000, and a loaded sawed-off shotgun was found in Maki's home.
Maki, 43, of Coquitlam, B.C., pleaded guilty to two charges of cultivating marijuana and one of careless storage of a firearm.
Hughes placed him in on house arrest for a year, followed by a curfew for another 12 months.
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| 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 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 | 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 | Hydro Identifies High 'Pot'ential New B.C. Hydro numbers suggest Langley's biggest cash crop may be marijuana.
Langley may have the second-highest per captia ratio of marijuana grow operations in the Lower Mainland, according to B.C. Hydro.
Under a new law introduced last year, the electricity supplier can supply municipalities with a list of all addresses with unusually high power consumption.
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| Jan 12, 2007 | Man Wounded In Shootout During Robbery Of Marijuana-Growing Operation BURNABY - Two men are in hospital after shots were fired in the Claude Avenue area early Wednesday morning, Burnaby RCMP say.
When police arrived at the 5400-block of Claude Avenue, they found the shooting was related to an attempted robbery of a marijuana-growing operation.
[Another prohibition-related news story] |
| 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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| BC: 'Grow Op War Won' Marijuana growers seem to be in rapid retreat, especially in Surrey, where civic officials are poised to declare victory over local grow-ops.
The most powerful weapon hasn't been increased conventional policing, but rather the threat of electrical inspections and service disconnections for residential homes that B.C. Hydro records show have extreme power consumption, a tell-tale sign of a grow-op.
[What will they do when the next generation of lights do not use much electricity and are much cooler?] |
| BC: Pot Raids Extinguish a Million Joints A police crackdown on Vancouver Island marijuana grow-operations has already destroyed the equivalent of a million joints, and is on pace to beat last year's haul.
A team of RCMP, municipal police, and Canadian Forces officers has found about 10,000 plants in the past four days, said Cpl. Greg Cox, spokesman for the RCMP's Island District. ...Generally, a single mature plant can be harvested, processed and used to make between 500 and 1,000 joints.
[What a waste of number crunching time - what a waste of resources that could be used to rid the Island of truly invasive plants ] |
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