| 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 27, 2008 | UVic Prof Lectures PM On Tories' Drug Policy University of Victoria professor Susan Boyd's weekly letters to Prime Minister Stephen Harper on drug research haven't garnered a response from the federal government, but others around the world are reading.
...On Feb. 1, Boyd, along with the Beyond Prohibition Coalition of Vancouver, launched a website at www.educatingharper.com to inform the prime minister and concerned Canadian citizens about drug policy and harm reduction.
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| Apr 24, 2008 | Purring At Puff Party Amazing pot smog hangs hazily in the sunny afternoon during Toronto Hash Mob's second successful smoke-out on Sunday, April 20, better known as 4/20.
By 4:20 pm, almost 2,000 stoners fill our makeshift auditorium behind College Park at 420 Yonge.
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| Apr 24, 2008 | Prohibition, Pot and Politics There's a certain strong odour a visitor notices when first stepping into the Compassion Club medicinal marijuana distribution centre on Rachel and St-Laurent. It doesn't take any time to figure out what it is. Marijuana activists have called the building home for years, and, if Boris St-Maurice gets his way, the weed will make it back to the forefront of a national dialogue sooner probably than the federal Conservative Party would like.
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| Apr 23, 2008 | Pot Church Fights For Home Defence lawyer Peter Boushy argued it was one thing for the Crown to
seek the forfeitures of marijuana grow operations where property
owners stood to make hundreds of thousands of dollars in the proceeds
of crime. It was another matter entirely, he said, for the Crown to
seize the primary residence of two aging men who had sold $70 worth of
pot to an undercover cop.
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| Apr 21, 2008 | Hundreds Turn Out For Pro-Pot Rally Niagara Falls - Hundreds who believe Canadians should have the right to smoke up without fear of being charged took to the streets of Niagara Falls Sunday afternoon to draw attention to their cause.
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| Apr 21, 2008 | ON: Pot Lovers Light Up, Party at Festivities in Victoria London - Hundreds of doobie devotees celebrated the most important date on the pothead calendar yesterday by getting lit at London's Victoria Park. A cloud of marijuana smoke wafted into the air at about 4:20 p.m., on the 20th day of the fourth month of the year
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| Apr 21, 2008 | MB: Thousands Celebrate Love of Earth, Weed Winnipeg - Security guards and police officers watched on the sidelines as the Manitoba Legislative Building grounds went up in smoke on Sunday.
The grass didn't catch fire but thousands of people lit up marijuana joints or fired up their bongs to protest the criminalization of the drug.
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| Apr 15, 2008 | Debate Over Steve Walton Presentation This past week, I received a barrage of emails in response to the story on Steve Walton's presentation to BCHS students. I was shocked and disappointed by what they had to say.
One emailer from Calgary said that Walton was misleading young people on the dangers of using marijuana. He claimed that despite the lies of someone like Walton, that young people will only be able to learn the truth through experiencing the drug. "The lies do much more harm than good," he said.
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| Apr 4, 2008 | Hemp Business 'Possibly Targeted' After four separate incidences of vandalism in March, the owner of downtown Sechelt's 420 Hemp Shop is considering closing his shop for good.
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| Apr 3, 2008 | Homegrown Bailout? There's a massive cloud of cannabis confusion hovering around Marc Emery's extradition case now that the deal between the Prince of Pot and U.S. prosecutors has hit the skids.
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| Apr 3, 2008 | Interview By Matt Mernagh With Pot Seed Breeder Dan My original quest to speak with Konstantin amongst cannabis community contacts turned up all the wrong leads. His lawyer hooked me up.
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| Mar 31, 2008 | Marc Emery Should Not Be Extradited This editorial board has more than once presented its strongest moral case for the Canadian government to block the extradition of Marc Emery, the West Coast marijuana advocate who faces a possible life sentence south of the border for operating a mail-order seed business out of his Vancouver headquarters. It is our view that the differences in the two countries' handling of seed vendors make extraditing Emery a shameful abdication of judgment by the Canadian authorities.
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| Mar 28, 2008 | Legalize All Drugs: Former Police Officer After 28 years on the Vancouver police force, Tony Smith believes the "war on drugs" is creating far more problems than it's solving.
During a 45-minute speech at the Alberta Harm Reduction Conference on Thursday, Smith argued legalizing all drugs would lower crime, and take control of the drug industry out of the hands of dangerous criminals.
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| Mar 28, 2008 | Coping With The Pain "Who is it harming? Where is the victim?" asks Cheryl MacLellan, co-owner of Hemp Country. "If there is no victim, there ought not to be a crime."
Those comments may be surprising coming from MacLellan who is a former Children's Aid Society child protection worker and a former police officer in the detective's office with the Oxford Community Police Service.
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| Mar 27, 2008 | Membertou First Nation Reviewing Its Drug Policy SYDNEY - Membertou band council is reviewing its drug testing policy to balance the rights of individuals with those of the community...Earlier this month the chief's son, John Bonham Paul, posted signs in his home which read 'Say no to corporate bullying' and 'Say yes to human rights.'
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| Mar 27, 2008 | Have Your Special Brownie, And Eat It Legalization would make smoking up safer for those who choose to do so, as it would reduce the risk of it being laced with things such as crystal meth. It would be a very viable ( and taxable ) industry, and it would do wonders for tourism - Canada would surely move up on the list of vacation destinations. All reasonable arguments.
But then there's people like Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine and leader of the BC Marijuana Party.
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| Mar 27, 2008 | Alberta: The Nanny State Indeed, they considered it necessary in the preamble to the Drug-Endangered Children Act to state categorically that "children exposed to illegal manufacturing of drugs, indoor cannabis operations, trafficking and other forms of illegal drug activity are victims of abuse."
That is as wild a claim as it is unsupportable. But the circumstances under which it may be invoked are so broad there is little that can be done to counter its stupidity. Although the preamble suggests that only the really serious stuff is the object of the Act, a child is deemed to be drug-endangered if he or she is "exposed" to illegal substances. That's it. Full stop.
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| Mar 22, 2008 | Marijuana Prescriptions Getting Lost in Smoke Since the current incarnation of Canada's medical marijuana program was established, doctors have been forced by Health Canada to act as sentinels for a product whose complexities, methods of delivery and side effects they have little firsthand information.
It's a situation that leaves many physicians hesitant to sign their names to the documents required for patients to access government pot.
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| Mar 20, 2008 | Bill C-26 - Conservative Assault On The Judiciary Our federal Conservative government has a disturbing tendency to circumvent judicial deliberation by imposing upon courts their own authoritarian sense of justice...This supposedly 'tough on crime' strategy embodies the curious mentality with which the Harper Conservatives regard crime: that all transgressions are committed by individuals or groups of individuals, and extenuating circumstances surrounding their offences count little compared to the fact that they are naturally immoral and should be punished.
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