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Current Affairs 2007 - Activism (121 items)
| Jun 28, 2007 | Judge Orders Pot Crusader Krieger To Be Released On Bail Medicinal marijuana crusader Grant Krieger was expected to be released from jail Wednesday night, after his lawyer succeeded in getting him bail until an appeal of his most recent conviction is heard.
Justice Peter Martin ordered the controversial Krieger to be released on bail after a hearing at the Alberta Court of Appeal on Wednesday, pending his appeal.
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| Jun 26, 2007 | MB: Local Energy-Drink Maker Pitches To Pot-Heads Clarus Canadian Springs is carrying Bong Water Energized Sports Drinks, a line of beverages where references to marijuana and the drug subculture abound.
Bong Water is the brainchild of Growth Capital Group. The drinks are made with Clarus's own spring water.
Bong Water comes in four versions -- the Original Bong Water 420 Chronic Tonic, Purple Haze, Green Dreams and Rasta Cherry. The drinks are available at stores in Canada and the U.S.
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| Jun 22, 2007 | AB: Reefer Madness Comes Full Circle Last Monday, Calgary Provincial Court Judge William Pepler ordered Grant Krieger incarcerated immediately, with no access to the pot the MS sufferer says has made his life liveable.
Reefer madness has come full circle.
Free Grant Krieger protest
Saturday June 23 / 2007 12:00 Noon
Calgary Remand Centre
12200 85 Street NW
Calgary, Alberta
Our current daily protests at the Calgary Remand Centre will be moved in front of the Alberta Provincial Court House 323-6 Ave., S.E. starting on Monday June 25 / 07. 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM daily until Grant is released!
We are expecting a large number of people on June 23 / 07 Saturday 12:00 Noon Free Grant Krieger Protest in front of the Calgary Remand Centre 122 Ave and 85th Street NW.
See you all on Saturday!
See http://Calgary420.ca/rallies/ for updates! |
| Jun 21, 2007 | SN: SN: Legal Action Considered Against Suspension A video recording of a free-speech protest at a Saskatchewan high school shows a school superintendent saying publicly that 15-year-old Kieran King had been accused of selling drugs at his school, even though his mother says he had never been investigated or charged, or even spoken to by the school principal.
Kieran's mother, Jo Anne Euler, says the drug-selling accusation is false, but hasn't yet decided whether to pursue legal action.
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| Jun 21, 2007 | AB: AB: Pot Advocate Sick In Jail - Family The condition of notorious medicinal marijuana crusader Grant Krieger - -- incarcerated at the Calgary Remand Centre since Monday -- is "rapidly deteriorating," according to his friends and family.
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| Jun 19, 2007 | AB: Pot Crusader Jailed, Refused Marijuana Longtime pot crusader Grant Krieger was jailed Monday for four months on a drug trafficking charge, and he wasn't allowed to take his medicinal marijuana behind bars.
Despite a constitutional exemption that allows Krieger to use cannabis to alleviate his multiple sclerosis pain, the judge ruled against the legal right applying in jail, said his lawyer, John Hooker.
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| Jun 16, 2007 | Schools Decision To Muzzle Student Sets Bad Example A form of reefer madness has hit the tiny town of Wawota, where the principal of the local Parkland School recently suspended a 15-year-old student who shared with friends his view that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco....An education institution whose objective should be to foster independent thinking and research to mold bright young minds shouldn't be trying to herd kids' behind some line of intellectual conformity.
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| Jun 14, 2007 | SN: Rally Held in Support of Free Speech Rights The residents of Wawota, population 500, were surprised to see protesters waving signs and shouting into a megaphone Tuesday....
Student Kieran King is the focus of the activity in Wawota. He was suspended from school for three days after disobeying the school's lockdown order during a walkout protest.
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| Jun 13, 2007 | SN: Student Suspended For Opinion On Pot REGINA ( SNN ) -- Kieran King says he has never smoked pot, but his views on marijuana have led to his suspension from Wawota Parkland School.
King said he was threatened with police action by principal Susan Wilson after telling friends at the school that marijuana was less harmful than alcohol.
"In my opinion, cannabis is safer than they say, it is not worse than alcohol or tobacco," said King, a 15-year-old Grade 10 student. Wilson accused King of using and selling marijuana at school, according to a media release issued by the Saskatchewan Marijuana Party. King has offered to submit to a voluntary drug test to prove otherwise.
"I've never smoked marijuana. I've never even seen it," said King, an honours student.
[Incredible courage by a young person who chose not to conform. ] |
| Jun 7, 2007 | Wanted: Tokers In Suits Time For Greying Potheads To Come Out Of The Closet And Back Anti-Prohibition Battle In 1977, only 18 per cent of cannabis smokers were over the age of 30, but in 2001 the percentage shot up to 49....
Considering this changing demographic, it's surprising that our drug laws haven't been reformed and liberalized. Most people blame the looming presence of the U.S. "war on drugs," but I think we've failed on the road to rational drug law reform because aging drug users rarely come out of their smoky closets to enter the political debate.
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| Jun 7, 2007 | ON: Man Pleads Guilty to Pot-By-Post Plan A medical marijuana crusader accused of mailing pot to fellow users in the United States and Britain pleaded guilty yesterday to committing mischief by using Canada Post services "without proper authority."
Following Marco Renda's plea, federal prosecutor David Doney asked the court to withdraw three counts each of trafficking and exporting a controlled substance and a single count of possession of a controlled substance.
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| May 30, 2007 | ON: Officer Defends Himself An Ontario Provincial Police constable named in a million-dollar lawsuit believes he used a reasonable amount of force when arresting Rick Reimer March 27, 2002.
Constable Tim Broder, a member of the Killaloe OPP detachment, testified in his own defence Tuesday during the second day of the civil trial at Pembroke's Superior Court.
Mr. Reimer is suing Const. Broder, Killaloe OPP Sgt. Dwayne Sears and the province's Crown, claiming wrongful arrest and the use of excessive force in two arrests March 27, 2002 in the parking lot of the Killaloe court.
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| May 28, 2007 | BC: Marc Emery Gets Some Breathing Room B.C. Marijuana Party president Marc Emery was to appear in court today for his extradition hearing to the United States. Instead, he will be at a rescheduling hearing on Wednesday, he said. The actual extradition hearing will be at the end of the year and he's glad for the extra time.
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| May 26, 2007 | Vaporizing The Threat Of A Weed Bust On a weekend afternoon at the Hot Box Cafe in Kensington Market, three young women are sipping greenish blender drinks. Up on a chalkboard are the house rules, which include "no smoking" and, in big, capital letters, "BYOP."
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| May 26, 2007 | Legalize Pot To Halt Violence, Group Urges Legalizing drugs as a way to combat the drug trade may go against traditional views, but it's an idea with its share of supporters.
A Packet & Times story last week in which a member of the Huronia combined forces drug unit talked about violence in relation to drugs received many responses.
One was from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ( LEAP ), an organization comprised of current and former police officers, attorneys, judges and corrections workers.
The organization is in favour of legalizing drugs as a way to take the drug trade off the streets and into a regulated environment.
"We're not starry-eyed utopians who think we aren't going to have any problems," said LEAP founding secretary John Gayder, who works in law enforcement in Niagara Falls.
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| May 26, 2007 | Little Interest In Drug Debate There was no moderator, one of three panelists left halfway through the debate and only two dozen audience members turned up.
But that didn't stop the LEAP debate on drug prohibition Tuesday night at Matsqui Centennial Auditorium.
There to discuss the issue was retired Vancouver judge Jerry Paradis, former Vancouver police officer Tony Smith and Chief Constable Ian Mackenzie of the Abbotsford Police Department.
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| May 24, 2007 | Pot Challenge Gets High-Profile Help Philippe Lucas, founder of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society, is flying high.
As a supplier of medical marijuana and political activist bent on reforming Canada's pot laws, Lucas has a supportive MP in Vancouver East New Democrat Libby Davies.
He has what he called "an interested and engaged judge" in Justice Robert Edwards, now hearing the society's Charter of Rights challenge arising from a raid on the compassion society's grow-operation near Sooke. And he has a Tory Senator, Pierre Claude Nolin, to testify for the society when the trial resumes on June 11.
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| May 11, 2007 | RCMP Alleges Pot Politician A Reefer Recidivist
Police charged Ed deVries in Iqaluit with trafficking in a controlled substance, conspiracy to traffic and breach of undertaking, May 2. He was released from custody and will appear in court July 3.
Police seized several pounds of marijuana, said Cpl. Randy Slawson.
DeVries, 48, recently served a six-month sentence for trafficking marijuana and laundering the proceeds of crime, after police intercepted a filing cabinet in 2003 full of marijuana sent from Ontario to Iqaluit, addressed to a company owned by deVries.
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| May 11, 2007 | Court Case Set To Argue Grow-op As A Civil Right Vancouver Island Compassion Society planning constitutional challenge in defence of pot bust
To the prosecution, it's a simple case of production for the purposes of trafficking, involving two local men caught red-handed growing a crop of 900 marijuana plants on an acreage in East Sooke.
To Vancouver Island Compassion Society founder Philippe Lucas, it's a constitutional challenge of Canada's medical marijuana laws.
Lawyers were in court in Victoria this week arguing that the two men arrested in the May, 2004 raid, Mat Beren and Michael Swallow, were operating a marijuana research and cultivation facility on behalf of the society.
"We don't deny what we were doing," Lucas said. "Our defence is a constitutional challenge."
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| May 10, 2007 | Pot Prince Blesses Herbal Affair Thousands upon thousands of tokers are demonstrating the normalization of cannabis at the Saturday, May 5, Global Marijuana March and fest with some hardcore puffing....
But the presence of Prince of Pot Marc Emery, facing extradition for selling pot seeds stateside, as lead parade marshall helps ensure the smokefest's hard edge. Emery's canna-celeb cachet has enthusiasts asking for photos and autographs. Here are 20,000 people proving they aren't criminals but a marijuana marketplace requiring regulation and taxation. Pre-march, vendors in the park get lots of excited attention.
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