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Current Affairs 2008 - Police (85 items)
| Nov 28, 2008 | Illicit Drugs Should Be Legal, Officer Says David Bratzer and I share at least one opinion in common: That it costs us a pointless fortune to maintain the charade of having effective drug laws in Canada. ....in fact, Bratzer, a constable, is one of only two active police officers in Canada who does public speaking on behalf of the U.S.-based non-profit organization Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ( LEAP ).
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| Nov 25, 2008 | Kindred Pot Gathering A small crowd of pot activists lit up on the steps of Old City Hall yesterday morning to protest against last week's police raid on the Kindred Cafe, a local hangout for medicinal and recreational marijuana smokers.
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| Nov 24, 2008 | Pot Cafe Owner To Turn Himself In Medical Marijuana Supporters To Rally Dominic Cramer, owner of the coffee shop raided by Toronto police last week on suspicion of marijuana trafficking, will turn himself in at 52 Division this evening, says his lawyer, Alan Young..."To the best of my knowledge it's a case about edibles that allegedly involved marijuana," Young said.
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| Nov 22, 2008 | Police Target Pot-friendly 'Yongesterdam' Police flooded the burgeoning counterculture neighbourhood known as Yongesterdam late on Thursday, raiding an openly marijuana-friendly cafe after undercover officers allegedly purchased a mug of hot chocolate and snacks laced with drugs.
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| Nov 21, 2008 | Drug Issues Keep Police, Resource Providers Busy Const. Gary O'Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman, said police are kept busy dealing with issues that arise from the use and trade of legal and illegal drugs, as well as the related homelessness, addiction and petty crime issues.
"A significant amount of our time is dealing with drug issues," he said.
[The answer seems so obvious] |
| Nov 14, 2008 | Cops Can Drug Test Const. Chris Baillargeon, who recently became a certified Drug Recognition Expert, is qualified to conduct a 12-step drug impairment evaluation that allows him to classify the type of drugs he identifies in an impaired driver....since the legislation was passed, he has conducted two tests in Chatham- Kent, both resulting in charges.
He said the cases both involved individuals taking prescription drugs and have not yet appeared in court.
[Just how much training is required to become an "expert"? |
| Nov 7, 2008 | Charged Officer Faces Court The trial is scheduled to begin next week for a Peel Regional Police officer arrested in late 2005 over allegations he was attempting to traffic cocaine.
Officials with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada ( PPSC ), the federal government organization responsible for prosecutions on behalf of the Attorney General of Canada, indicated that Cst. Sheldon Cook, 39, will appear in a Brampton courtroom Monday.
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| Oct 29, 2008 | Judge Warns Cops To Get Warrants B.C.'s controversial Safety Standards Act -- aimed at smoking out dangerous grow-ops -- has survived a constitutional challenge.
But police officers who tag along with municipal safety inspectors must bring along a search warrant before gaining access to a home, a B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled.
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| Oct 28, 2008 | Drug Case Evidence Tossed It seemed a stroke of luck for Halifax Regional Police that a pair of officers responding to a car accident last year found a large quantity of drugs and a loaded handgun stashed in one of the damaged vehicles.
But their luck changed Monday when a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge ruled that the constables lied to Christopher Henderson in order to search his car because they knew they had no grounds for a warrant.
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| Oct 28, 2008 | Appeal Court Acquits Woman Of Theft Of Electricity At Grow VANCOUVER -- Three B.C. Court of Appeal judges have overturned a woman's conviction for fraudulent theft of electricity at a Kamloops marijuana-growing operation.
Although the evidence indicated that the accused, Rui Ping He, had sole control of the house at the time of a police raid, the court found she was not the owner of the house and the electrical bill was not in her name.
The appeal court upheld He's convictions for pot cultivation and possession for the purpose of trafficking.
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| Oct 27, 2008 | Government's pot appeal up in smoke TORONTO - The federal government lost a court appeal Monday, paving the way for an end to its monopoly supplying medical marijuana to patients.
Justice Department lawyers had sought to appeal a lower-court ruling that granted licensed producers the right to grow marijuana for more than one patient.
But the three-judge panel said it was not persuaded by government lawyers who argued that allowing a grower to supply more than one patient would lead to an unregulated industry.
In January, a federal court judge struck down the one-to-one ratio as unconstitutional and unnecessarily restrictive.
The ruling was stayed pending Monday's appeal.
Lawyer Alan Young, who represented medical marijuana users, said the ruling was a victory for "sick people."
"It's time for Health Canada to recognize that medical marijuana is an established part of the regiment for a lot of patients," Young said outside court.
"Instead of thwarting patient needs, they should be accommodating patient needs and hopefully this case will be a signal to them."
Authorized users who cannot grow their own marijuana can designate a grower or access government-issued marijuana supplied by Prairie Plant Systems in Manitoba.
But a group of 30 patients who challenged the regulations argued the government supply was weak and they should have the right to choose their source.
They were lobbying to be lawfully able to purchase marijuana from Carasel Harvest Supply Corp., which, under the current regime, was not allowed to supply more than one patient with medical marijuana.
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| Oct 22, 2008 | Cops To Keep Eye On Pot-Dealing Cafe Quebec City police warn they will closely monitor the activities of a cafe that plans to sell marijuana.
The operators of Montreal's Compassion Club say they will open a second shop today in the provincial capital to respond to growing demand for "medicinal" marijuana.
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| Oct 10, 2008 | OPP Offer Warning About Marijuana Resin The Ontario Province Police Drug Enforcement Section is warning the public about the dangers of the production of marijuana resin following charges laid in connection an explosion at a duplex in Ingersoll.
The production of marijuana resin is achieved by the soaking marijuana in an organic solvent.
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| Oct 9, 2008 | Drug-Related Convictions Quashed Due To Mountie's Fabrications Nova Scotia's Court of Appeal has quashed drug convictions against a dozen people because an RCMP officer fabricated evidence against them. In a decision released yesterday, the court says none of the convictions can stand because former Mountie Daniel Ryan sold drugs while lying under oath to justify search warrants for the premises of the 12 men who were convicted.
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| Sep 15, 2008 | Police Use Spin To Help Battle Grow Ops Nelson lawyer, Don Skogstad handles a lot of criminal cases involving marijuana growing operations and says recent police reports of seizing houses and organized crime connections in relation ( to ) marijuana cultivation are simply part of a media spin campaign by the RCMP.
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| Sep 10, 2008 | Pot Plantations Aired Out Vancouver Island Police Officers have wrapped up a six-day air and land operation, which resulted in the eradication of over 23,000 marijuana plants from across Vancouver Island. In total, officers visited 222 sites where marijuana was being illegally cultivated on Crown Lands.
[Consumers can't afford gas, but thier tax money can fund helicopter excursions] |
| Sep 9, 2008 | Driver Found Not Guilty Of Marijuana Possession A man caught with marijuana during a traffic stop in Pitt Meadows was acquitted of a drug possession charge Friday after a provincial court judge questioned the legality of the police search.
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| Sep 3, 2008 | Growing Flowers, You Say? A Likely Story Likely residents were divided on whether the police raids had made their community a better place to live. Likely Chamber of Commerce spokesman Robin Hood said yesterday the grow ops fed an underground economy and boosted property values in a town hit hard by a slowdown in logging and mining. "It did not bother me," he said in an interview. ....
But High Country Inn owner Darlene Biggs, who has three of her eight grandchildren living in the village, said she was pleased to see the grow ops closed down. "A lot of us have been complaining for a while and calling the police," she said.
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| Sep 3, 2008 | BC: Houston Cops Accused of Brutality After pulling the man over, several other RCMP patrol cars arrived on scene and an unidentified Houston RCMP officer allegedly began conducting a field sobriety test on the assertion of smelling alcohol and marijuana. ...Inside the Houston detachment, it is alleged the man was attacked again by an undisclosed number of officers as he was escorted to a cell.
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| Aug 24, 2008 | Hempfest considers move to new site Hempfest could move to a new location with several entry roads after a second consecutive year of stepped-up police enforcement.
Police stopped more than 500 vehicles and handed out dozens of charges during 12-hour daily vehicle checks Wednesday to Saturday north of Echo Bay.
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