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Current Affairs 2007 - Activism (121 items)
| Dec 29, 2007 | Woman Led Fight to Legalize Medical Marijuana KITCHENER - In recent years, when people saw Catherine Devries of Kitchener, they saw a tiny and obviously ill woman who needed to use a wheelchair when she managed to get out of bed at all. ....Catherine died last Sunday in St. Mary's Hospital, at the age of 49. Most of her life, she had struggled with a host of health problems and pain.
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| 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 19, 2007 | BC: Protesters Target MP's Office Okanagan-Shuswap:Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes answered questions and took heat Monday from protesters upset about a proposed law that would see mandatory minimum sentences for drug traffickers.
About 20 protesters congregated outside the downtown Vernon office of Mayes, who emerged to tell the protesters that the guidelines would keep Canadian streets safer.
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| Dec 19, 2007 | BC: Judge's Death Puts Cases In Jeopardy Crown and defence lawyers are working to keep on track two long-running and ongoing Victoria cases temporarily delayed by the sudden death of a Supreme Court judge.
Conferences have been scheduled for January to make sure of continuations of the murder trial of Ruby Ann Ruffolo and the constitutional challenge to the marijuana charges levelled at two men arrested in a raid on a house used by the Vancouver Island Compassion Society as a grow operation.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | SN: Pot Protesters Oppose Bill C-26 Saskatchewan -A group of protesters gathered at the provincial legislature Monday to protest amendments to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act proposed by the Harper government.
Bill C-26 would see the imposition of mandatory minimum sentences for possession of drugs with the purposes of traffickin
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| Dec 18, 2007 | AB: 'Cannabis Is the Least of Our Problems' Lethbridge - A pro-marijuana group took its protest to Lethbridge streets Monday.
Warmly-dressed protesters rallied in front of MP Rick Casson's office, after parading their signs through the city centre. They were opposing the Conservative government's plans for compulsory jail terms for people selling street drugs.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | MS Sufferer Wins Right to Use Pot Vapourizer Pam Edgar has won her fight to have the provincial government pay for a device she says is needed for her to use marijuana to ease symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
The government, which earlier refused to pay for a $200 marijuana vapourizer, has been forced to reverse its decision following the unanimous decision of an appeal tribunal.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | BC Activists Blast Federal Anti-Drug Bill Burnaby -A string of demonstrations at MPs' offices saw promarijuana supporters handing out information leaflets at Burnaby MP Peter Julian's constituency office yesterday. The federal government's proposed Bill C- 26, which was introduced last month is nothing more than marijuana prohibition, according to organizer Adam Scriver.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | AB: Pot Bill Generates Buzz Calgary - "Legalize, Regulate and Educate," was the message protesters were trying to send to politicians yesterday during a pro-marijuana rally in front of Stephen Harper's constituency office.
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| Dec 17, 2007 | Canadian National Demonstration Against Bill C-26
ALSO:
Criminal lawyer Kirk Tousaw explains why the proposed changes to Canada's marijuana laws are bad for the entire country, and how you can help to stop them |
| Dec 15, 2007 | Jail Too Stiff For Growers? A plan to put more pot growers behind bars has a Burnaby activist smoking mad.
Adam Scriven said a handful of people will gather outside Burnaby-New Westminster MP Peter Julian's office Monday, part of a nationwide day of protest against mandatory jail sentences proposed by the Conservative government.
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| Dec 14, 2007 | Activist To Bring Dope To His MP PORT ALBERNI -- A well-known Vancouver Island pot activist will be huffing and puffing outside his local MP's office at high noon Monday.
"I would bring a big pot plant, but it's too cold out," said Michael Mann.
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| Dec 12, 2007 | BC: Drug Laws Draconian Victoria - Protesters are set to gather Monday, December 17, at MP offices in Victoria and across Canada to speak out against proposed drug laws they say are draconian and ineffective. The Conservatives' Bill C-26 would entrench the criminalization of cannabis and require minimum mandatory prison terms for people caught with pot.
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| Dec 11, 2007 | Marijuana Activists Will Gather At MP Offices An exciting new grass-roots political campaign is beginning to grow across Canada. In response to the Americanization of Canadian drug policy by the Conservative Party of Canada, ordinary Canadians are standing up to ask a simple question: Why?
On November 20th, 2007 the Conservative government of Canada introduced Bill C-26, imposing mandatory minimum jail sentences for cannabis ( marijuana ) offences in an attempt to appear "tough" on crime.
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| Dec 6, 2007 | ON: Medicinal Pot Case Wraps Up Lawyers for Canadian users of medical marijuana who want Ottawa to ease restrictions on where they get their pot wrapped up their case Wednesday by telling a Federal Court judge that government-approved marijuana, grown by a Flin Flon contractor, doesn't compare to higher-quality strains available on the street.
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| Dec 3, 2007 | NS: Simpson Facing Charges of Trafficking, Sentencing AMHERST - Within minutes of his Supreme Court sentencing for counts of possession, trafficking and producing marijuana being adjourned, Rickey Logan Simpson was taken into custody and faces additional charges of trafficking the same substance.
Crown attorney Paul Drysdale told Justice Felix Cacchione that two officers from Amherst Police Department, including Sgt. Tim Hunter, were at the back of the courtroom to take Simpson into custody where he would be charged with trafficking marijuana.
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| Nov 30, 2007 | Ministers Guilty Of Trafficking 'Sacrament' Hamilton's high priest of pot, who turns 75 next month, faces a possible jail sentence after being convicted of selling the holy sacrament to an undercover police officer.
A Superior Court jury deliberated eight hours Wednesday night before finding Walter Tucker and fellow minister of pot, Michael Baldasaro, 58, guilty of all five charges. They will be sentenced Jan. 24.
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| Nov 29, 2007 | Judge's Death Puts Pot Trial In Jeopardy The death of B.C. Supreme Court Justice Robert Edwards has jeopardized a lengthy and costly criminal trial involving an important constitutional challenge of the marijuana law.
In most criminal cases, when a judge is unable to follow through to judgment, a mistrial is declared.
In this case, a rare hearing has been scheduled in Vancouver tomorrow to see if there is a way to save the huge expense incurred and the evidence already presented.
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| Nov 15, 2007 | Pot Activists Hail Ruling (Invalid law) Marijuana activists are hailing a recent court ruling as the beginning of the end of Canada's prohibition on pot, but the Crown dismisses the decision as non-binding.
A trial judge in Oshawa, Ont., threw out charges of simple possession of marijuana against three young men on Oct. 19, relying on a previous court ruling that found Canada's pot law unconstitutional. In making his decision, Judge Norman Edmondson cited a decision last July by a fellow judge of the Ontario Court of Justice.
[ See: http://thepotlawhasfallen.ca/, especially if you have been charged with possession of cannabis ] |
| Nov 9, 2007 | Drunks Put End to Pot Meetings The smoke has cleared and it was alcohol that killed the marijuana bash.
After 12 years, the world's largest weekly pot rally has been stubbed out because of drinking.
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