| 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 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 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 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 7, 2008 | Store Dumps Hemp Stock Once the smoke cleared in the fight between the City and a hemp store, the owner got his licence.
A Langley City employee hand delivered a business licence to Hempyz store late Thursday afternoon.
Owner Randy Caine said once he and the City came to an agreement that he would not sell hemp products, City staff assisted him in reapplying, and the licence was quickly approved.
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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 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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| Oct 22, 2008 | Cops To Keep Eye On Pot-Dealing Cafe Quebec City police warn they will closely monitor the activities of a cafe that plans to sell marijuana.
The operators of Montreal's Compassion Club say they will open a second shop today in the provincial capital to respond to growing demand for "medicinal" marijuana.
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| Oct 5, 2008 | No Shortage Of Illegal Pot Groomers VANCOUVER - There's green to be made clipping and trimming the green leaves in British Columbia's marijuana industry.
The prospect of tax-free income is driving some people into temporary work as "clippers" for indoor and outdoor grow operations.
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| Sep 29, 2008 | BC: Holy Smoke Four' Convicted of Marijuana Trafficking Legalization Fight: Judge shoots down defence arguments in case involving downtown Nelson business; prosecutor says no remorse from four men should lead to a harsh sentence
A guilty verdict came down Friday in Nelson Provincial Court for the four men charged with marijuana trafficking out of the Holy Smoke Culture Shop on Baker Street in Nelson.
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| Sep 27, 2008 | NS: Maccan's Marijuana Maverick Enters Race AMHERST - The marijuana maverick is back to take a second crack at becoming MP for Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley.
Rick Simpson, the Maccan man who believes he has found the cure for cancer in a marijuana paste he calls hemp oil, said Friday that he filed the necessary paperwork with the riding's returning officer earlier this week.
"I'm running to get my message out," Mr. Simpson said. "I want to see lives saved and get the country on its feet and straightened out. Hemp is the answer to all our problems."
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| Sep 22, 2008 | ON: Court Ruling May Change Marijuana Laws There may be no legal prohibition against possession of cannabis in Ontario if a Superior Court judge upholds an earlier finding in an ongoing challenge to the medical marijuana laws.
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| Sep 21, 2008 | Layton Visit Goes To Pot Following the love-in, Layton was dogged by questions about his party's relationship with the Marijuana party.
Layton told reporters he never made a deal with the party, and did not force two former pot activists to resign as NDP candidates in B.C. this week.
That contradicts claims by marijuana promoter Marc Emery, who says he raised thousands of dollars for the NDP and signed up new members in exchange for support for his cause of legalization.
Layton said the two B.C. candidates who suddenly resigned this week did so voluntarily.
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