| Aug 24, 2008 | Police Stop 'Pretty Unusual' For Marijuana Exemptee Derek Pedro's first trip to Hempfest was a "nerve wracking" one.
He says Ontario Provincial Police asked him and Alison Myrden, both federal medical marijuana exemptees, to get out of their truck during a spot check Wednesday.
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| Aug 15, 2008 | AB: olice Say Marijuana Sold To Students At Pizza Parlour William Aberhart High School students could satisfy their munchies with Your Choice Pizza's $3.50 special that got you a slice of pepperoni or cheese pizza and some chips.
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| Aug 13, 2008 | Ruling Needed on Vehicle Searches: Judge With the Moncton judiciary split on the legality of a local Mountie's vehicle searches, Judge Irwin Lampert says it's time for New Brunswick's Court of Appeal to rule on the subject. ...He said if police are allowed to search people based on guesses or hunches, it "can too easily mask discriminatory conduct."
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| Aug 8, 2008 | Futile Drug War Can't Defeat Human Nature "Prohibition is not a failure, it's a self-perpetuating policy disaster," he says. And it will remain so, well beyond the foreseeable future.
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| Jul 31, 2008 | AB: Police Chief Apologizes To Family For Botched Raid After nearly eight years, the longest running complaint against the Calgary Police Service has ended with a rare public apology from the chief to a family who was the victim of a botched drug raid.
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| Jul 26, 2008 | More Than One Border Guard Involved In Drug Ring During their first face-to-face meeting in Vermont on Oct. 11, 2007, the undercover agent and Mr. Desilets discussed trading more than 400 kilograms of marijuana grown in Canada for 150 kilograms of cocaine from the U.S.
"Desilets advised that his organization utilizes a customs border agent to assist their smuggling operation," the affidavit says.
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| Jul 24, 2008 | Rights Intact After Bust, Court Rules Winnipeg police didn't breach a man's charter rights when they went to check on his emotional well-being and found a marijuana grow operation inside his home.
Ryan Tereck tried to fight his drug conviction on the grounds police had no right busting into his home and seizing about 300 pot plans found inside. ...
The unusual case dates back to April 2005, when Tereck apparently told his psychiatrist in a letter he planned to shoot and kill himself.
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| Jul 16, 2008 | CMP Urging Albertans To Watch For Weed The RCMP is asking for public assistance in reporting illegal outdoor marijuana grow-operations and the crops they yield as the summer months wind down.
Why should anyone volunteer to do police work? |
| Jul 16, 2008 | Blood Testing For High Drivers Drivers suspected of being high on drugs could be facing an unwelcome needle at the hands of police.
New federal legislation enacted on July 2 allows police to collect blood and fluids from drivers suspected of being high on drugs.
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| Jul 8, 2008 | New Drug-Impairement Testing Now In Effect As of July 2, 2008 drivers will have to submit to a Standardized Field Sobriety Test for impairment when demanded by a peace officer who suspects they are driving while impaired by drugs.
Bill C-2 empowers Canadian police who suspect a driver of being impaired by any drug, illegal, prescription or over-the-counter, to demand the subject submit to a breathalyzer test, physical coordination tests and an assessment by a Drug Recognition Expert using the Drug Evaluation and Classification ( DEC ) assessment along with a demand of bodily fluid samples ( blood, saliva or urine ).
A constitional challenge just waiting to happen... |
| Jul 8, 2008 | Children Seized After Grow-op Bust Three children are in protective custody after the seizure of hundreds of marijuana plants in a quiet Brooks neighbourhood.
The raid on Friday in a home in northwest Brooks led to children ranging in age from two to 11 being placed in provincial care from a home condemned by the Palliser Health Region due to widespread toxic mould.
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| Jul 7, 2008 | When Police Face Trial Toronto and York police behaved with exemplary professionalism as they swept in on two uniformed officers accused of criminal offences in connection with a marijuana grow-op. ...Yet there remains, by the chief's own admission, one aspect of this case that is likely to erode public confidence in our law enforcement agencies at least as much as the original allegations of criminal wrongdoing: their suspensions from the force will come with full pay.
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| Jul 5, 2008 | Police Officers Get Bail After Grow-Op Bust A City of Vaughan notice taped yesterday on the front door of an alleged former marijuana grow operation deems the suburban house unfit to occupy. ...This municipal order may cause a problem for Toronto Police Constable Kevin Bourne, 33. Police arrested him on Thursday, accusing him of taking part in a marijuana grow-op drug ring. Yesterday a court released him on $50,000 bail and ordered he reside in the Vania Drive house he lived in with his wife, Wendi, and their toddler son.
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| Jul 5, 2008 | Police Turf War Sank B.C. Hells Angels Investigation Animosity between the RCMP and the Organized Crime Agency of B.C. resulted in the failure of a multi-million-dollar investigation into the Hells Angels, a former lead investigator with the OCABC has alleged in a wrongful dismissal suit.
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| Jul 5, 2008 | On The Frontlines Of The War Against Drugs Special Report: Oakville Beaver reporter David Lea sheds some light on the secret life of an undercover cop with the Halton Regional police Drug and Morality Bureau.
Who is morally qualified to work for a "Morality Bureau"? Why does such a thing exist in this century? |
| Jul 4, 2008 | High on Postal Service According to the lists obtained by Sun Media, packages with illicit items have been destined for big cities and small towns from coast to coast. Shipment sizes range from a few joints or bottles of booze to a large-scale drug haul worth $1 million.
But the most common illicit shipments contain marijuana.
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| Jul 2, 2008 | Rupert Cops Raid Tomato Grow-Op Red-faced drug cops looking for a marijuana grow-op came up with a tomato grow-op instead.
Prince Rupert commercial fisherman Bruce Aleksich said yesterday that about 15 Mounties burst into his business last Thursday, only to find 400 tomato plants in various stages of growth.
As more people begin to grow their own food, rooting out "grow-ops" will become impossible.
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| Jun 24, 2008 | Medical Pot User Faces Charges A LOCAL man faces two marijuana charges for seizures made before he obtained a federal licence allowing him to grow and possess the drug.
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| Jun 20, 2008 | SN: Thermal Camera Improves Police Plane's Eyesight The Saskatoon Police Service's eye in the sky is about to become sharper with the addition of a thermal imaging camera to the police plane. It allows police officers to spot a suspect running at night through backyards or a hidden grow operation.
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| Jun 19, 2008 | Pot Grow Ops Keeping Police, Fire Busy With up to 250 marijuana grow ops in Ottawa at any given time, Gauthier said his team could be making multiple busts each day, but they have to concentrate on the most important cases.
It seems grow operators are becoming more cunning each year.
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