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Current Affairs 2008 - Culture (109 items)
| Sep 20, 2008 | May Eyes BC Seats Disgruntled conservatives, pot smokers and working moms should all consider voting for the Greens, federal party leader Elizabeth May said Friday in Kelowna.
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| 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 | District Dismisses Bong Store Owner's Charge Of Discrimination Dave Singh, owner of Hemporium, is vowing to go to court if necessary in order to sell bongs, pipes, rolling papers and other items Mayor Gord Robson has described as "drug paraphernalia" in Maple Ridge.
Singh's store was open for only three days before the District of Maple Ridge closed it because he didn't have a business licence. After the store was closed the district then rejected his business licence application.
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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 | 'Freedom Tour' Leaves Its Mark Neil Magnuson is once again making his way across Canada to raise awareness about the dangers of drug prohibition, particularly marijuana.
"Prohibition to drugs has been a complete disaster. It didn't work with alcohol and it's not working with these other substances as well," said Magnuson.
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| Sep 18, 2008 | Green With Empathy Every morning when Boris Saint-Maurice shows up for work he breaks the law. Saint-Maurice is the owner of the Compassion Club on the corner of Rachel and Coloniale - a store that sells marijuana illegally to people who can demonstrate a medical need for the drug. He has been arrested for drug trafficking numerous times.
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| Sep 18, 2008 | Greens Go Pro-Grass The Green party says it supports cannabis sales to adults through licensed distributors.
As well, the party would like to see "small, independent growers" thrive, and the government taxing the weed at the same rate as tobacco, generating an estimated $1 billion a year.
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| Sep 12, 2008 | Felger Calls in Drug Agent Leading up to, and after, the federal election, Abbotsford marijuana activist Tim Felger has invited retired drug agent and acclaimed public speaker and educator Celerino "Cele" Castillo to speak about the nation's war on drugs.
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| Sep 10, 2008 | Pot Plantations Aired Out Vancouver Island Police Officers have wrapped up a six-day air and land operation, which resulted in the eradication of over 23,000 marijuana plants from across Vancouver Island. In total, officers visited 222 sites where marijuana was being illegally cultivated on Crown Lands.
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| Sep 9, 2008 | District Orders Bong Store Shut During its brief existence the store had posters with marijuana leaves on its front windows. Key chains that said "legalize" on top of marijuana leaves were on sale.
Mayor Gord Robson told council at the Monday council meeting that he had received "a number" of complaints about the store's existence.
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| Sep 5, 2008 | Federal Election Could Be Going To Pot Legalizing The Use Of Marijuana Will Be An Election Issue If Proponents Across Canada Listen To Neil Magnuson. ....
In Lethbridge as part of the "2008 Freedom Tour" on Thursday, the long-time activist said three of the four national parties have spoken out in favour of decriminalizing the recreational drug.
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| Sep 4, 2008 | Relight Those Nice Dreams Cheech & Chong Reprise Their Hit '70s Comedy Act In Ottawa
Nearly 25 years after their breakup, the wildly popular comedy team of the 1970s is back to "Light Up Canada." And, after that, they're going to blaze up America too. "Our performance in Ottawa is actually going to be the first time that we've done Born in East L.A. together," says Cheech, calling from Hawaii, of the comedy team's hit parody of a Bruce Springsteen original. "Condoleezza Rice called us and said, 'You know, I'm having no luck with the Palestinians and the Israelites and I need to get somebody together before my reign is out here.' Ottawa - you're the first guys."
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| Sep 3, 2008 | Growing Flowers, You Say? A Likely Story Likely residents were divided on whether the police raids had made their community a better place to live. Likely Chamber of Commerce spokesman Robin Hood said yesterday the grow ops fed an underground economy and boosted property values in a town hit hard by a slowdown in logging and mining. "It did not bother me," he said in an interview. ....
But High Country Inn owner Darlene Biggs, who has three of her eight grandchildren living in the village, said she was pleased to see the grow ops closed down. "A lot of us have been complaining for a while and calling the police," she said.
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| Aug 29, 2008 | Cannabis Crusader Calls On Whitehorse But the marijuana activist didn't bring any weed to the Yukon.
"Typically I let the locals smoke me up," said the 50-year-old leader of BC's Marijuana Party.
"That way, I can experience what you're smoking here." It's Emery's first time championing cannabis in the territory. .....And Whitehorse RCMP is worried.
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| Aug 28, 2008 | Stoning Of A Crusader NOW readers know Matt Mernagh as that indomitable spirit behind the megaphone at medpot rallies in Yonge-Dundas Square. Bright lights, big city. That's Mernagh. .....On Saturday August 16, Mernagh was arrested, along with a roommate, and charged with possession of marijuana, possession for the purposes of trafficking and production of marijuana.
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| Aug 27, 2008 | Alberta's Reefer Madness Hitting New Highs s Albertans go, they outnumber Catholics, smokers, Edmontonians, voters and overweight folk -- though a massive intake of potato chips might soon balance out the latter.
They're pot smokers, and a new study by Health Canada shows a staggering -- and presumably peckish -- 45.3% of Albertans have inhaled marijuana, with 34.7% returning for a regular hit of weed.
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| Aug 27, 2008 | Alberta's Reefer Madness Hitting New Highs As Albertans go, they outnumber Catholics, smokers, Edmontonians, voters and overweight folk -- though a massive intake of potato chips might soon balance out the latter.
They're pot smokers, and a new study by Health Canada shows a staggering -- and presumably peckish -- 45.3% of Albertans have inhaled marijuana, with 34.7% returning for a regular hit of weed
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| Aug 24, 2008 | Hempfest considers move to new site Hempfest could move to a new location with several entry roads after a second consecutive year of stepped-up police enforcement.
Police stopped more than 500 vehicles and handed out dozens of charges during 12-hour daily vehicle checks Wednesday to Saturday north of Echo Bay.
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| Aug 24, 2008 | Police Stop 'Pretty Unusual' For Marijuana Exemptee Derek Pedro's first trip to Hempfest was a "nerve wracking" one.
He says Ontario Provincial Police asked him and Alison Myrden, both federal medical marijuana exemptees, to get out of their truck during a spot check Wednesday.
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| Aug 18, 2008 | Legislation Out Of Joint Ryan Vander Hoek hopes lighting a joint will fire up Edmonton's cannabis community.
The 22-year-old and his so-called Sunshine and Grass crew were at Louise McKinney Park yesterday, getting high and having fun.
The eight-hour cannabis festival, which was expected to draw up to 150 pot smokers, featured live music, free munchies and pot-related competitions - such as creative bong-making and fastest joint-smoking.
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