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Current Affairs 2008 - Youth (33 items)
| Nov 28, 2008 | The Site Where Adults Don't Go EDMONTON - It's late Tuesday night and two teenage boys are comparing bongs in Nexopia's drugs forum.
"Nice collection, man," writes one, referring to a photo of the colourfully painted glass pipes, used to smoke marijuana. For a website targeted towards youth, Nexopia is staggeringly explicit.
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| Nov 27, 2008 | Don't Let Your Kids Go To Pot The following is part of a series of informational articles aimed at increasing public awareness about the services provided by the Kamloops Victim Services unit....There is plenty of controversy regarding the dangers of using marijuana.
It has been recreationally used for only about the last 40 years and, as a result, there is not much research as to the long-term dangers associated with its use.
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| Nov 8, 2008 | PUB LTE: Street Pot Often Crap Pot "The marijuana was originally thought to have been laced with a more noxious substance, but it turns out high levels of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, are to blame."
Nonsense and balderdash!
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| Oct 7, 2008 | Students Told Green Party Would Legalize Marijuana The legalization of marijuana, funding for education and the arts were among the issues raised by Fleming College students at an all-candidates debate yesterday.
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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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| Jul 26, 2008 | That Little Joint Could Kill Your Child, MD Says It's not only those pills in the bathroom cabinet that could kill your child -- it could also the pot left out after a party, Dr. Anna Jarvis told delegates at the 85th annual conference of the Canadian Pediatric Society in Victoria.
Just what we need - m ore fear-mongering ignorance. |
| Jul 25, 2008 | 12-Year-Old Boy Facing Drug Trafficking Charge Shelburne police have charged a 12-year-old boy for trafficking marijuana. The child was arrested Tuesday afternoon ( July 22 ), as part of an ongoing investigation.
"Obviously it's very disconcerting at any age, but when you see 12-year-olds who are supplying it to other minors, it's a grave concern," shares Sgt. Mark Bennett. "It's something that has to be addressed by the police, the judicial system, the public and the parents."
If it was a grave concern, then they would regulate uncontrolled substances to deter this, but when there are no controls, anyone and everyone sells them. |
| 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 8, 2008 | Schools More Vulnerable to Drugs Over the last while, it has been widely accepted by society that a mainstay of the high school system was random drug dog searches. ...Make no mistake, they are in our schools, and they are here to stay because of this ruling.
Although it was widely practiced, there is on evidence that it has been widely accepted. Drugs have been in schools for over 35 years... the ruling means nothing. |
| Jun 5, 2008 | What A Parent Will Do For A Sick Child never thought I would be buying "pot" at my age, but that's what's so interesting about life -- you just never know what's around the corner, do you?
There are no limits to what a parent will do for their sick child. On July 9, 2007, we made our first trip to the Medical Compassion Clinic in Toronto.
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| May 27, 2008 | NF: Program Offers Parent Plan To Drug Proof Children Mr. Newman is a master trainer from 'Focus on the Family Canada'. He was in Springdale to teach a group of community leaders to present a program called 'How to Drug Proof Your Kids'. The program began in Australia and has been in Canada since 2002.
He provided the sessions at the Springdale Pentecostal Church the week after the church hosted over 250 youth for a weekend celebration of God's love.
[The religious right spread their tentacles a bit further] |
| 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 21, 2008 | Police Smoke Out Drugs At Schools After a 10-day investigation at nine high schools, Ottawa police rounded up about 100 grams of marijuana, arrested 16 youths and charged five more.
[Sounds like a lot of taxpayer money was used and trust betrayed to round up 100 grams... insane] |
| 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 1, 2008 | Pump Up The Rebellion Nothing in last week's rulings detracts from this position. But in the rush to keep kids safe from themselves, some of us adults have forgotten what we do want them to take in at school. Critical thinking and questioning authority should be right up there. Certainly, in my time we were explicitly taught the lessons of moral and social panics exploited by authoritarian figures. In history, for example, we learned about Hitler and other fascist leaders mobilizing supporters on this basis, and in English, we studied Arthur Miller's allegory about the 1950s McCarthy hearings, The Crucible.
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| May 1, 2008 | Sniffing Out the Larger Implications of the Dog Sniff Cases Dogs "Search" When they Sniff for Narcotics
Most importantly, all nine justices (essentially) agreed that when a police dog trained to sniff out narcotics focuses its olfactory powers on an individual's knapsack or luggage, the target's reasonable privacy expectations are encroached upon. In other words, this constitutes a "search" for s. 8 Charter purposes, a conclusion that triggers the "reasonableness" requirements of the guarantee.
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| Apr 29, 2008 | Teens Have Same Rights Random searches of high school lockers by police with drug-sniffing dogs have been routine in Canada for a long time.
Not any more. Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada clamped a tight leash on the canine cannabis sniffers, ruling that warrantless searches were "unlawful" and a breach of privacy under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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| Apr 28, 2008 | When Laws Are Held In Contempt, We All Suffer When pro-marijuana advocates gathered in downtown Vancouver recently to smoke pot in defiance of the law, many puzzled citizens wondered why the police took no action against them. ...As John Winter, president of the B.C. Chamber of Commerce, told The Province editorial board: "In a perfect world, the police would have dealt with them with some severity, but the fact is the police don't have the support of the community."
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| Apr 28, 2008 | QU: McGill Students Arrested on 4/20 Two McGill undergraduate students were arrested on lower campus last Sunday when at least eight Montreal police officers swarmed onto campus to break up a small crowd of marijuana smokers.
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| Apr 25, 2008 | Supreme Court Muzzles Sniffer Dogs The use of drug-sniffing police dogs in the random search of a southwestern Ontario school and a Calgary bus terminal was unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday.
In a 6-3 decision, the top court ruled that the actions breached Section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which covers what constitutes reasonable search and seizure.
The ruling, which could have an impact on police powers across the country, centred on two cases.
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