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Current Affairs 2008 - Legal (184 items)
| May 26, 2008 | Search And Detention At Sea, But Keeping A Balance When a high-school principal in Sarnia, Ont., turned his school over to the police for a good portion of the day to let a drug-sniffing dog roam, he sent a terrible message to his students about what a democracy should permit the state to do in pursuit of its goals...Drug trafficking is not a trivial crime, but the presence of drugs poses no immediate danger. Guns do.
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| May 23, 2008 | Canada's Laws Going To Pot They fought the law and the ... law lost.
In fact, Canada's petty, nanny-state prohibition on simple marijuana possession has been repeatedly revealed as either non-existent or as murky as well --used bong water.
Except, you'd never know it as the charges continue to be laid and judicial resources go up in smoke.
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| May 21, 2008 | BC: Compassion Club Seeks Expansion NANAIMO I A group that provides marijuana to sick people hopes to expand into a storefront location in downtown Nanaimo within a few weeks.
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| May 21, 2008 | B.C. Town's Cash Crop UP In Smoke, Along With Economy "A few years ago, you couldn't sell a house in Likely for $80,000," said Rob Hood, a longtime Likely resident and president of the local chamber of commerce.
Then along came the pot growers and things started looking up in Likely.
Properties left vacant as work dried up were suddenly all bought up, and many locals found themselves employed.....Now, since the various raids, many properties around town are, once again, sitting vacant and unkempt.
...."We're trying to develop all that stuff," he said, adding, only half-joking, "we have to now that the No. 1 crop is gone."
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| May 21, 2008 | Meaford Couple To Challenge Pot Law A Meaford man and woman will fight drug charges - laid one month before he received licences to possess and grow marijuana for medicinal purposes - by arguing Canada's marijuana possession law is unconstitutional.
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| May 19, 2008 | High Cost Of Toking A human rights settlement between a medical marijuana user and the owner of a Burlington sports pub has left behind a cloud of controversy.
Afroze Edwards of the Ontario Human Rights Commission said people who partake of marijuana for medical reasons have a right to reasonable accommodation of their disabilities.
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| May 17, 2008 | Shotgun, Dope Seized From Cop's Wrecked BMW EDMONTON - A shotgun and marijuana were seized from the car belonging to an off-duty Edmonton constable accused of causing a fiery crash while intoxicated. ...Brown, 29, faces five counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm, five counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm and one count of driving with a blood alcohol level over .08. ...Brown, a three-year veteran of the force, has been suspended with pay from his job.
[Is there any other profession where you can screw up so badly, yet get time off work with pay that is provided by taxpayers?] |
| May 16, 2008 | Marijuana Popular Among Educated, Middle-Class: Study A variety of educated, middle-class Canadians are "making a conscious but careful choice to use marijuana" to relax or focus on leisure activities, say researchers behind a new study spotlighting pot smoking behind the nation's picket fences. .."They're a little reluctant to come forward and talk about it, using the phrase that they're still 'in the closet.'"
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| May 15, 2008 | Men Cleared Of Drug Charges Due To Use Of Sniffer Dog An RCMP officer who stopped two men near Kananaskis did not have sufficient grounds to use a dog to sniff out the 58 kilograms of marijuana stashed in a tank in the back of their truck, a judge has ruled.
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| May 13, 2008 | AB: Marijuana Advocates Mount Campaign Advocates of medicinal and recreational use of marijuana are promoting a Toronto university professor's legal self-defence kit to help people avoid criminal convictions for a law they believe is unconstitutional.
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| May 13, 2008 | Grow-Op Hunt Sparks Class-Action Suit A Coquitlam homeowner has filed a class-action lawsuit after his power was cut off and his tenant forced to move out following a search for a marijuana grow-op. ...Monaco's case is the fifth lawsuit against Coquitlam since last year. One is in small-claims court, two are petitions, and one is a writ.
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| May 13, 2008 | BC: Conditional Discharge For Denman Pot Grower A 48-year-old man received a conditional discharge in Courtenay Provincial Court last week after Comox Valley RCMP discovered 43 marijuana plants growing on his Denman Island property. ...Conditions of Relkoff's probation include that he abstain from the possession of illicit drugs and that he make a $500 donation to the D.A.R.E. program, in care of the Comox Valley RCMP.
[Being forced to donate to DARE should be challenged!] |
| May 12, 2008 | Laws Go To Pot Over Religion Things have really gone to pot for the Church of the Universe in Hamilton, Ont. Church founders Walter Tucker and Michael Baldasaro are facing hefty jail terms and have had their east-Hamilton "church" seized. ....Canadians should ask two questions of prospective members of Parliament during the next federal election. When religious beliefs come into conflict with the laws of the land, does Canadian criminal and civil law trump religious freedom? And why should the tokers at the Church of the Universe in Hamilton do hard time while the married satyrs of Bountiful, B.C., can keep saying; "I do?"
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| May 10, 2008 | Pot Of Gold Not What Local Grower Wants Local cannabis company Island Harvest wants to grow weed for the government and potentially become the only legal supplier in the country.
But they said if they were given a monopoly on selling cannabis, it would be a step in the wrong direction for medicinal users.
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| May 8, 2008 | Court Rulings Allow for Protection of Students And Their Charter Rights A recent Supreme Court of Canada decision concerning police use of trained dogs to ferret out drugs in schools has some school administrators up in arms. But the decision is a reasonable one, as it protects students' constitutional rights while still allowing police searches in certain circumstances.
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| May 7, 2008 | City Going Too Far Witch hunt. Police state. Overzealous. Heavy handed. All of these terms -- and probably a lot more we couldn't print -- are being used to describe the City of Coquitlam's approach to rooting out marijuana grow operations. ...And before the legalize-marijuana lobby starts writing letters about how the problem could be avoided if pot were legal, we agree.
Pot, however, is not legal. And illegal grow-ops pose a huge fire hazard. That means the inspection approach to shutting down grow-ops is a good thing -- when one key ingredient is factored in: common sense.
[Indoor gardens do not pose significant fire risk] |
| May 5, 2008 | BC: Holy Smoke Trial Wraps Testimony wrapped up in the Holy Smoke drug trafficking trial Friday after four Nelson-area witnesses took to the stand to testify that cannabis has helped them deal with disease, alcoholism, and drug addiction.
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| May 2, 2008 | Expert Testifies Cannabis Helps Slow Aging .C. Provincial Court heard Thursday that cannabis is safer than aspirin and can restore the balance in people's bodies to help fight illness.
That was the testimony of Dr. Robert Melamede, an associate professor at the University of Colorado, who was brought in by the defense team for the four men accused in the Holy Smoke Culture Shop drug trafficking case taking place in Nelson this week.
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| May 2, 2008 | BC: Drug Case Dropped Due To Court Delay Charges have been dropped against two men accused of trafficking pot because of an excessive delay in bringing the case to trial.
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| May 1, 2008 | BC: Two-Year Sentence For Mail-Order Pot Scheme A Langford man has been sentenced to two years for operating a mail-order marijuana business, part of a vast new criminal enterprise operating in Canada.
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