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Current Affairs 2008 - Consequences (63 items)
| Nov 13, 2008 | Marijuana In Sport The use of pot by athletes does not need to be monitored any more closely than pot use by anyone else; in sports, there are much bigger drugs to smoke out.
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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 10, 2008 | The War On Drugs Is A Mess The World Drug Report is crude propaganda.
Journalists and politicians who take it at face value contribute to the manipulation of public opinion and the stifling of meaningful debate. And that is unacceptable at a time when Canadian soldiers are fighting and dying in the War on Drugs.
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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.
[This would not happen in a regulated market] |
| Sep 20, 2008 | Second NDP Candidate Resigns Over Drug Use Kirk Tousaw, the NDP's candidate in Vancouver Quadra, has stepped down after a video surfaced of him smoking marijuana -- making him the second B.C. NDP candidate to step down over drug use this week.
The video, recorded in 2005 and still available on Google Video, shows Tousaw taking part in a competition judging various strains of marijuana with marijuana activist Marc Emery.
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| Sep 19, 2008 | Are Drugs Good Or Bad? We all decide the degree that we involve substances in our lives. It is essential to recognize the role a drug is playing and take time to consider the resulting effects. The conversation needs to be less about defining the substance as "good" or "bad" and should question how we are using.
Is your use responsible, moderate, and accountable? Or have you shifted to misuse, resulting in negative consequences made visible by the problems you are experiencing?
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| Sep 19, 2008 | Driver Impaired By Marijuana In Fatal Crash An Edmonton man was convicted of impaired driving causing death Thursday, after a judge ruled he was high on marijuana when he slammed head-on into another vehicle, killing two people.
Court earlier heard he had also been using prescription medications including Paxil, Zyprexa and Ativan, but Ross rejected suggestions that they played a role in the crash.
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| Sep 18, 2008 | Researcher Condemns Prime Minister Stephen Harper's War on Drugs When retired SFU psychology professor Bruce Alexander starts thinking about Prime Minister Stephen Harper's $63.8-million National Anti-Drug Strategy, he "goes ballistic". ...In his new book, The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit ( Oxford University Press, $70 ), he argues that the true roots of drug misuse in Canada go far deeper. Dislocation, fragmentation, and isolation are the side effects of unregulated capitalism, Alexander said.
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| Sep 3, 2008 | 'Say No' To Canine Cannabis - Vet Keep your dogs away from pot.
That's the message to all pet owners from an emergency veterinarian..... Symptoms of an affected dog include sleepiness, extreme sensitivity to light and motion, low heart rate, low blood pressure and the dog urinating on itself, or dribbling urine.
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| Aug 11, 2008 | Loopholes Need To Be Plugged Provincial court Judge Peder Gulbransen threw out the case against David Razah Hood, who was stopped by police when he was driving in a suspicious manner past an alleged grow-op house they were staking out. Hood's car reeked of burnt marijuana, so police arrested him. The bags of starter pot plants were in the back seat. Hood was then charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.
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| Jul 31, 2008 | Outlaw Compassion Paul Spendlove, media relations officer for Health Canada, says no matter what benefits they may provide to the sick, "Compassion clubs are unregulated and have always operated outside Canadian laws. These clubs have no legal authority to provide access or to produce and distribute marijuana."
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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 5, 2008 | Drug Testing Beneficial For Companies With Dangerous Work Sites From a single phone interview, John Chiasson secured a lucrative job on a Fort McMurray construction project.
There was only one catch: The offer was conditional on passing a drug test. Chiasson had smoked marijuana five days before the test. He figured it would have cleared his system. He was wrong. ...Drug testing is justified to accomplish the legitimate goal of a safe workplace free of impairment.
Cannabis can be detected for almost 30 days - crack only 24-48 hours... no wonder there is such a crack problem in Fort McMurray. |
| 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 28, 2008 | Bar Owner Fears His Business Could Go to Pot After Human Rights Ruling TORONTO - A sports bar owner said he risks breaking the law and could lose his licence if he signs an agreement to settle a complaint at the Ontario Human Rights Commission to allow a patron to smoke medical marijuana outside the bar's front door.
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| Jun 20, 2008 | Man Sues To Get Bill Over Pot Grow-op Returned A landlord billed almost $13,000 by the District of Mission to clean up a rental property used for a marijuana grow-op is suing the district to get the money back.
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| Jun 14, 2008 | Parasiris 'Relieved' Upon Learning His Fate Parasiris and his wife both testified they had no idea it was the police who had broken into their home.
Both said they didn't hear officers shout "Police!" until after Tessier had been shot.
As one writer put it: "If you can't trust armed masked raiders who burst into your home in the middle of the night, who can you trust?" |
| Jun 6, 2008 | Judge Throws Major Drug Bust Case Out Of Court A major Winnipeg drug bust has been thrown out of court after a judge found police had no right to conduct a gunpoint takedown of a suspected dealer.
The 2004 arrest -- in which a large quantity of marijuana and meth was found inside a vehicle in St. Vital -- was deemed an excessive show of force by police and a "serious" breach of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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| Jun 4, 2008 | Romancing The Bottle In some communities, the horrors associated with alcohol extend into every household. These include many Canadian native reserves, where booze has generated nothing short of a liquid holocaust. Even the staggering fatality statistics don't include the legions of victims who never take a sip: children born with fetal alcohol syndrome, abused spouses of alcoholics, the prey of drunk drivers. In Mexico, this week, one of those drunks fell asleep at the wheel and plowed into a group of bike racers -- a horrific scene captured by a local photographer. There but for the grace of God.
Oh wait, sorry -- scratch all that. I just read last week's column by Barbara Kay on the subject of marijuana policy, and it turns out I've gotten it precisely wrong.
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| Jun 3, 2008 | Legalizing Marijuana Would Cripple the Profits of the Violent Drug Lords When any law is regarded with complete and utter contempt by a significant part of the public, then it demeans all laws and erodes respect for the system. Such is the case with the marijuana law.
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