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Current Affairs 2007 - Statistics (51 items)
| Dec 20, 2007 | Grow-Ops Growing Bigger, Going Rural Crime analysis shows marijuana grow operations are moving to bigger houses, hiding behind more bushes and growing more dope than ever.
The grow-ops' changing profile has emerged in response to authorities' crackdowns, says RCMP crime analyst Parvir Girn.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | Production of Potent Pot Flourishing and Lucrative The production of increasingly potent marijuana continues to flourish in Canada despite a decline in grow-operation seizures in British Columbia over the past four years, the RCMP says.
The national police force's annual report on the illicit drug trade concludes that pot cultivation remains "an evolving and very lucrative" industry.
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| Dec 18, 2007 | Illegal Drug Industry Booming With Potent New Products: Budder, an inhaled cannabis derivative believed to have emerged in Vancouver in 2004, has THC levels ranging from 82 per cent to 99.6 per cent, much more potent than smoked marijuana. THC ( tetrahydrocannabinol ) is the psychoactive substance in the cannabis plant.
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| Nov 24, 2007 | BC Civil Forfeiture Act -- Facts Figures There are now about 60 cases involving about $5 million in cash and assets, including real estate, vehicles and jewelry believed to be the profit from crime and other unlawful activity.
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| Nov 24, 2007 | Crime Rate: A 25 Year Low According to Statistics Canada, the national crime rate fell to its lowest level in 25 years last year. Since 1991, the crime rate is down by 30 per cent after steadily increasing through the '60s, '70s and '80s.
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| Nov 22, 2007 | The Marijuana Trade Scores of Vietnamese "family units" using fear, trust and relatives have taken a stranglehold on the multi-billion dollar illegal B.C. bud trade in Canada.
The operations, which revolve around how debts are repaid and secrets kept, are primarily organized through family ties and are dotted across the country.
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| Nov 21, 2007 | Drug Law Will Fill Jails, Expert Warns B.C.'s already crowded jails will need to squeeze in another 700 marijuana growers per year if new mandatory sentences are enacted, an analysis of sentencing figures suggests.
"You basically need a new prison to facilitate that," said Darryl Plecas, a criminologist at the University College of the Fraser Valley who studies marijuana sentencing. "You're going to have hundreds, if not thousands, of people going to jail who aren't going now."
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| Nov 11, 2007 | 'Marijuana Is an Addictive Drug' Andy Ivens The Province Sgt. Scott Rintoul mans the RCMP's drug-awareness bureau in B.C. Well-acquainted with the arguments for legalizing marijuana, he challenges the legal-pot advocates to consider one important point -- our children.
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| Nov 8, 2007 | University's Used and Abused: Marijuana Few people would recognize 9-tetrahydrocannabinol without its abbreviation as THC. Even as THC, for many it remains an esoteric chemical substance - in fact it is the active molecule in marijuana and it is this week's featured drug in University's Used and Abused.
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| Nov 5, 2007 | Professor's Grant Goes To 'Pot' The goal of the cannabis research is to find a way to block the production of psychoactive cannabinoids that produce the mind-altering effects in users so cannabis can become a useful crop for oil, fibre and even food, said Facchini.
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| Nov 5, 2007 | More Calgary Children Seized From Grow Ops More than 60 per cent of all children seized from drug houses in Alberta under the year-old Drug Endangered Children Act were in the Calgary region. Alberta Children's Services figures show 23 of the 38 children apprehended under the act came from the Calgary area, which includes Banff, Cochrane and High River.
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| Oct 26, 2007 | Drugs In High School: 'You Can Get Any Drug You Want' They wander the halls, moving back and forth from group to group.
They make their way through our high schools, tempting each and every student.
Some lurk inside lockers.
Others hide in coat pockets, jean pockets...any place where students think they won't be found.
They are drugs.
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| Oct 19, 2007 | Choose Your Poison On the farming side, any policy that successfully reduces the production of marijuana to a significant degree will utterly crash the economy of most of the interior of British Columbia. Mining, fishing, forestry and food farming, the mainstays of the interior economy, home to two million, have all been in inexorable decline for decades. The only thing keeping most families afloat is production of marijuana or jobs in retail and other industries supported by the proceeds of sales of marijuana by the growers.
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| Oct 12, 2007 | Canada Chooses Cannabis, Not So High On Steroids Of the tiny numbers of Canadian athletes who test positive, it's more likely to be for cannabis than anything truly sinister.
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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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| Sep 17, 2007 | AG Increases Use of Forfeiture Powers to Seize Assets The Ministry of the Attorney General has increased its use of sweeping provincial civil forfeiture powers in the past year to seize assets, including people's homes, even if criminal proceedings have been stayed or withdrawn because of Charter violations. ...A report issued recently by the attorney general's office stated that $3.6 million in property has been seized in the past four years in 170 proceedings. Nearly $1 million has been distributed to crime victims and more than $900,000 transferred to municipal police forces.
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| Sep 12, 2007 | Marijuana-smoking Troops Banned From Afghanistan OTTAWA - Some 250 soldiers who tested positive for drugs were not allowed to serve in Afghanistan, the Canadian Forces confirmed yesterday.
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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 11, 2007 | New Dosage Limits for Medical Marijuana But Where's The Science?
New evidence-based guidelines are urgently needed to help doctors negotiate Canada's hazy medical marijuana landscape, particularly in light of Health Canada's efforts to impose new dose limits, say the nation's leading cannabis researcher and doctors who have been queried about their marijuana authorizations.
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| Sep 6, 2007 | Teens Smoke More Pot Than Cigarettes, Report Says After alcohol, cannabis was the most commonly used illegal substance among youth. Cannabis use is reported by 17 per cent of students in grades 7 to 9, about 29 per cent of 15- to 17-year-olds, and almost half of 18- to 19-year-olds, the substance abuse centre report said.
Pot smoking, in fact, now exceeds the rate of cigarette smoking among youth, the study found.
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