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Current Affairs 2007 - Culture (83 items)
| Oct 11, 2007 | Marijuana Party Candidate Gets Three Months For Trafficking VANCOUVER - Former Marijuana Party candidate Marc Boyer has been sentenced to three months in jail after pleading guilty in Vancouver Provincial Court to possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.
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| Oct 4, 2007 | Med Pot's Slow Access? As the Montreal Compassion Centre gets ready to celebrate the official opening of their new digs on 72 Rachel E. this Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m., relations between the benevolent marijuana distribution organization and the bureaucrats running Health Canada's Medical Marijuana Access program remain as stilted as ever.
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| Oct 3, 2007 | BC: US War Deserter Is Held After Pot Arrest In Nelson NELSON - A U.S. army deserter has been arrested in Nelson.
Robin Long, 24, was arrested by police on a countrywide warrant on Monday.
Long, who is from Ontario, was in Nelson visiting friends and staying with fellow war resisters.
But Nelson police Chief Dan Maluta said Long was arrested as a result of regular police work, not because they were targeting war resisters.
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| Oct 3, 2007 | Club Head Wants Quebec To Run Medical Marijuana Access The founder of the Montreal Compassion Club wants Quebec to take over the administration of the federal Medical Marijuana Access program in the province.
Marc-Boris St-Maurice said yesterday the program is "an embarrassing oxymoron."
He complained about major delays processing applications, licence renewals and changes of address.
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| Oct 2, 2007 | Own Up To Your Teenage Reefer Madness 'Dad, did you smoke pot when you were in high school?"
"Yes, but actually I was in eighth grade when I started."
"No." ( Actually, I did but I don't want to tell him because I don't want him to get any ideas. )
"No." ( It's true that I didn't. I was kind of a goody-two-shoes. But frankly, I've always wondered if I would have had more fun as a teenager if I had been willing to take more chances. I think maybe I missed out. )
"It's none of your business."
What should you tell your kids - and how honest should you be - about your teenage adventures with sex, drugs and drinking?
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| Oct 1, 2007 | Tory Pot Smokers Should Be The First To Turn Themselves Into Police! Stephen Harper is about to declare another 'War on drugs.'
Statistics show that roughly 16.8% of Canadians use marijuana / cannabis. You therefore have to assume that there MUST be a couple of Conservative Members of Parliament who fit into the 16.8% number. ...
It is time for EVERY card carrying member of the Conservative Party of Canada who uses cannabis to lead by example and turn themselves into the police immediately whether or not they support Harper's new initiative.
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| Oct 1, 2007 | PR: New National Anti-Drug Strategy plays politics with people's lives TORONTO, Oct. 1 /CNW/ - The new National Anti-Drug Strategy to be officially
unveiled this week by federal Health Minister Tony Clement is a huge step
backward for Canada's response to HIV/AIDS, said the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal
Network today...."It seems clear that the new drug strategy is based on ideology instead of
evidence, and from every angle - human rights, public health, or use of
taxpayers' dollars - that's irresponsible and unacceptable."
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| Sep 30, 2007 | Tories to Drug Users: The Party's Over 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 told The Canadian Press.
"In that sense, the party's over." Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Halifax all reported increases of between 20% and 50% in 2006 of arrests for possession of cannabis, compared with the previous year.
As a result thousands of people were charged with a criminal offence that, under the previous Liberal government, was on the verge of being classified as a misdemeanour.
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| Sep 29, 2007 | Cannabis Culture Lights Up the Festival Films About Marijuana Are Challenging Viewers' Thoughts About the Politics Behind the Drug VANCOUVER -- Nick Wilson was 26, developing a documentary - his first - - about online infidelity, when he had a conversation with his 68-year-old aunt that sent him in a new direction. Aunt Wendy had seen a news story on TV about the Vancouver marijuana activist Marc Emery and she was incensed. Why were U.S. authorities after him? And why would Canada even consider extraditing a Canadian to face up to life in prison, simply for selling marijuana seeds?
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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 17, 2007 | AB: 'Prince of Pot' Gets White Hat Canada's "Prince of Pot" has joined the ranks of singer Dolly Parton, Prince Philip and Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean.
Arriving at the Calgary airport for a two-day visit Saturday, Canada's best-known marijuana activist, Marc Emery, was white-hatted by the Calgary Airport's official White Hat Volunteers.
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| Sep 11, 2007 | B.C. Man Taking Pot Message To Ottawa Neil Magnuson is skating across Canada to raise awareness about the prohibition of cannabis and stopped in Moose Jaw on the weekend.
Magnuson started in Vancouver in July. He is making his way across the country to Ottawa.
In Ottawa, Magnuson will be speaking on Remembrance Day about his cause. On his way, he will be stopping in different towns to talk to the people about cannabis.
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| Sep 8, 2007 | It's For Tobacco, Really (Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge) In every quadrant of our city, one can find shops where brightly coloured bongs line the shelves and a wide selection of pipes sit in glass cases. The stores have names like Grass Roots, Hemporium and Bongs and Such, just in case you still don't get the idea.
Known to some as "head shops," such businesses have been sprouting like, well, weeds all over booming Calgary. You can find them in Forest Lawn, in the northeast industrial area and in the tony shopping districts of Kensington and 17th Avenue S.W.
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| Aug 31, 2007 | ON: OPP Says RIDE Check At Hempfest Was Legitimate Ontario Provincial Police say an impaired driving checkpoint outside Hempfest wasn't a ploy to search festival-goers for pot, and deny charges by organizers of the annual cannabis festival that police attempted to drive off attendees. ...Rob Waddell, organizer of Hempfest, pointed out this week that no impaired driving charges were laid, for drugs or alcohol.
He also charged OPP went above and beyond their normal practice at RIDE checks by questioning passengers, checking for documentation and doing vehicle safety checks.
Some who attended Hempfest described a military-style roadblock a short distance from the event, manned by as many as 20 police officers.
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| Aug 27, 2007 | ON: 32 Drug Charges at Hempfest Ontario Provincial Police laid 32 drug charges and four weapons charges over the weekend during a RIDE stop set up during Hempfest 2007. OPP say most of the drug charges were for possession of marijuana.
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| Aug 25, 2007 | Is It Or Isn't It? The Pot Pendulum Swings Again Just As Canadians Are Embracing Pot As Never Before, the Government Plans a New War on Drugs. the Move Is Fitting, Given This Country's Ambivalent Relationship With Weed Over the Decades ...For a lot of Canadians, the debate is over: They like pot, they smoke it.
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| Aug 25, 2007 | ON: Police Will Be Out in Force at Hempfes The Cannabis Festival Runs Through Sunday in Ophir
A police traffic checkpoint aims to smoke out any possible problems during Hempfest.
The ninth annual cannabis festival runs through Sunday in Ophir about 30 kilometres north of Bruce Mines.
Ontario Provincial Police started checking vehicles on Poplar Dale Road Thursday afternoon. Motorists will be stopped through the weekend.
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| Aug 24, 2007 | ON: Church Leaders Go To Court Over Confiscated Pot The spiritual leaders of a church that uses marijuana as its sacrament are seeking a court order for the return of several pounds of pot and other items seized from their Barton Street headquarters during an RCMP raid.
Church of the Universe ministers Walter Tucker, 74, and Michael Baldasaro, 58, were charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking after the Mounties executed a search warrant on May 15, 2000.
The raid came after a sting operation in which undercover police officers pretended to join the church and began to buy the sacrament.
However, all charges against the pair were ultimately withdrawn by a federal drug prosecutor on Dec. 15, 2005.
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| Aug 9, 2007 | Roach Burn (class action suit) The irony is too delicious. A lawyer named Roach, in this case Charles Roach, taking on the feds' reefer madness pot laws. Roach argues in a class action filed Tuesday ( August 7 ) in federal court that laws making possession of pot illegal have had no force or effect since July 2001. That's when the federal government was ordered to enact a constitutionally valid law. It still hasn't. Roach's suit asks for $25 million in compensation for persons prosecuted under pot laws. Maybe the threat of having to pay out millions in damages will finally light a fire under the feds' asses to stop with their anti-cannabis charade. We're happily holding our breath on this one.
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| Aug 9, 2007 | ON: Church Argues Marijuana A Sacrament CHURCH ARGUES MARIJUANA A SACRAMENT
Parishioners Plan Charter Challenge, Say Current Policy Infringes On Their Religious Rights
If some religions sip wine at the altar, others should be allowed to smoke pot. At least according to Rev. Edwin Pearson and Rev. Michel Ethier, two ordained ministers behind a proposed $25 million class action lawsuit challenging Canada's marijuana laws.
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