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Current Affairs 2008 - Activism (142 items)
| Dec 2, 2008 | 'Weed King' Found Guilty A medical-marijuana activist known as DaWeedKing and his wife were found guilty Monday of cultivating 27 pot plants, almost 44 months after they were arrested at their Albert Road home. ...Fred Pritchard said outside court that he was disappointed the medical-marijuana aspect of his activities -- he has previously run the Marijuana Compassion Club of Windsor under the moniker DaWeedKing - -- was not brought out at trial.
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| 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 26, 2008 | Mayor's Marijuana Work Still An Issue For Media Mayor elect Brian Taylor said he's aware and sensitive to the fact that many residents are opposed to his marijuana advocacy and promised to keep his two lives separate. "I've made some concessions in terms of my civil rights," he said, in an interview. "But I'm not going to give up my right to campaign against marijuana prohibition."
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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 23, 2008 | Budding Wealth in the Weed Eric Nash can barely contain his excitement waiting to hear from Health Canada whether he can start growing marijuana for 250 patients now that the Federal Court of Appeal has struck down the government's monopoly on supplying medical marijuana.
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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 22, 2008 | Kindred Apathy For T.O. Dope Cafe The Kindred Cafe - busted in a drug raid Thursday evening - has been particularly popular with registered medical marijuana users, those actually issued with Health Canada cards designating their status.
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| Nov 21, 2008 | Pot Shop May Soon Close After moving to a new location and undergoing renovations, a long-time business finds it's unable to get a business licence from the City of New Westminster.
The delay in getting the licence is because the store, Sinn and Sativa Fashions at 655 Front St., sells what the city describes as drug paraphernalia-rolling papers, pipes and bongs.
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| Nov 20, 2008 | Smoke Clears For Hempyz Hempyz is legitimate.
After refusing the pot plant novelty store a business licence, Langley City has done an about-face.
"I went to City Hall on Nov. 6 to dispute the $100 per day fines [for operating a business without a licence] and staff asked me if I would like to fill out a business license," said Hempyz owner Randy Caine.
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| Nov 20, 2008 | Defelice Released From Prison Pending Appeal After being sentenced to one year in prison on October 14, Holy Smoke Culture Shop co-owner Paul DeFelice has been released from Kamloops Regional Correction Centre since October 22, pending an appeal on his conviction.
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| Nov 19, 2008 | Appeal Date Set For Pot Priests Church of the Universe co-founders Michael Baldasaro and Walter Tucker are hoping the date of their next court appearance is a sign of success.
They were told earlier this week the Ontario Court of Appeal will hear the appeals on their marijuana trafficking convictions and sentences next year on April 20.
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| Nov 17, 2008 | Pair To Fight Pot Convictions And Bail Terms The hemp-happy founders of the Church of the Universe are scheduled to fight their convictions and bail conditions in the Ontario Court of Appeal today.
Rev. Michael Baldasaro and co-founder Rev. Walter Tucker were found guilty last November of multiple counts of trafficking marijuana and sentenced to two years and 12 months respectively. The pair also lost their Barton Street church because it was ruled an "offence-related property."
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| Nov 15, 2008 | A Bright Green Spot in the Economy With Courts Striking Down the Government's Monopoly on Supplying Medical Marijuana, Private Growers ...Eric Nash can barely contain his excitement waiting to hear from Health Canada whether he can start growing marijuana for 250 patients.
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| Nov 12, 2008 | Marijuana Activists' Son Shot The son of two of Nova Scotia's best-known marijuana activists was in serious condition in a Halifax hospital Tuesday after an early morning shooting at a home in Lower Sackville.
Mike Patriquen, 25, is the son of Michael Patriquen, the founder of the provincial Marijuana party, which is no longer active, and Melanie Stephen. The couple are divorced.
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| Nov 6, 2008 | Drugged Daze In The Don I've Become My Own Worst Nightmare, A Medpot Horror Story
NOW writer and med pot activist Matt Mernagh, who suffers from fibromyalgia, scoliosis and arthritic pain, was arrested August 16 with 37 plants and charged with possession of marijuana, possession for the purposes of trafficking and production of marijuana. The trial date has not been set. The following is an account of his 13 days in the Don Jail.
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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 25, 2008 | Fed Pot Policy Panned ORONTO -- It's a marijuana "monopoly" that deserves to go up in smoke, activists say.
Lawyers representing a group of 30 medicinal marijuana users will be in court Monday to fight the federal government's bid to keep control of large-scale medicinal marijuana distribution in Canada.
Activists say the government-issued pot is weak.
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| Oct 24, 2008 | Appeal Filed In Holy Smoke Case Akka Annis and Paul DeFelice, the two of the Holy Smoke workers sentenced to jail earlier this month, have filed an appeal.
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| Oct 22, 2008 | Message Sent Provincial Court Judge Gives Paul Defelice One Year in Jail to Send a Message to Community About Drug Trafficking
They argued they provided a necessary service to a town with a reputation for smoking pot, but the sentence handed out to the first of four men found guilty of selling marijuana from their downtown business showed the judge thought the community could do without it.
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