| May 20, 2008 | Drugs A Booming BC Business Marijauna is our number 1 economic contributor, and like all successful businesses, it's growing. It isn't restricted to just one part of the province either. Marijuana is grown all over the place, even in the hinterlands, it's truly a provincial bonanza. MacLeans says it's a $5 billion to $7 billion a year business. The hard drugs bring in billions and we also do well with manufactured drugs such as methamphetamine and ecstasy.
A BC Business magazine report ranks the marijuana industry as the province's second largest business, but that's still significant.
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| May 16, 2008 | Marijuana Popular Among Educated, Middle-Class: Study A variety of educated, middle-class Canadians are "making a conscious but careful choice to use marijuana" to relax or focus on leisure activities, say researchers behind a new study spotlighting pot smoking behind the nation's picket fences. .."They're a little reluctant to come forward and talk about it, using the phrase that they're still 'in the closet.'"
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| May 13, 2008 | AB: Marijuana Advocates Mount Campaign Advocates of medicinal and recreational use of marijuana are promoting a Toronto university professor's legal self-defence kit to help people avoid criminal convictions for a law they believe is unconstitutional.
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| May 7, 2008 | A Pothead's Pursuit of Justice Marc Emery is standing behind the counter at his former business, the City Lights bookstore on Richmond Street, talking about his quixotic quest to end society's prohibition on marijuana.
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| May 6, 2008 | Torontians Roll Some Joints In The Name Of Freedom Organizers were handing out festival maps at Queen's Park yesterday, but the kids ahead of me just laughed them off.
"Who the hell needs a map?" chuckled one freedom toker to the other. "Just follow the smell."
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| May 4, 2008 | AB: Marchers Push Marijuana's Medical Merits Calgary - Close to 500 protesters took to the streets Saturday in favour of marijuana's medicinal use and making it more accessible to those suffering debilitating pain.
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| May 4, 2008 | ON: Pot Fans Rally In Big Smoke Thousands Pushing For Legal Weed Peacefully Mark Freedom Festival, 10th Global Marijuana March
Queen's Park may have been soggy from yesterday's rain, but sparks were flying as thousands spent the day smoking pot just north of the Legislature.
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| May 1, 2008 | BC: Two-Year Sentence For Mail-Order Pot Scheme A Langford man has been sentenced to two years for operating a mail-order marijuana business, part of a vast new criminal enterprise operating in Canada.
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| Apr 30, 2008 | BC: Accused Admit Selling Cannabis NELSON - The owners of the Holy Smoke Culture Shop have admitted in provincial court to selling organic cannabis from their downtown premises.
However, they are putting forward a "defence of necessity," saying they did more good than harm.
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| Apr 30, 2008 | 'There Were Smoky Moments, There Were Non Smoky Moments' t was a lively day at the Nelson courthouse on Monday as the Holy Smoke Culture Shop was once again in the spotlight. Two owners and two associates have been charged with trafficking and they are using the charges to fight the marijuana laws in Canada. Here is some of the banter inside the court and out from the first day of the trial. The trial is expected to resume on Thursday.
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| Apr 29, 2008 | Tiresome Debate This week's Holy Smoke trial is a waste of time and money, but who is to blame?
The Holy Smoke crew are back in the courts this week. They couldn't be happier. They will once again climb up on that pedestal and shout to anyone interested in hearing these two words - legalize it!
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| Apr 28, 2008 | Drug Laws Tested This Week In B.C. Supreme Court In another courtroom, the Vancouver Island Compassion Society will continue its assault on the anti-cannabis criminal law with the resumption of testimony from Senator Pierre Claude Nolin, who led the 2002 parliamentary review of drug policy that concluded pot should be legalized.
They're interrelated cases with national repercussions that rely on a substantially similar body of jurisprudence.
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| Apr 28, 2008 | When Laws Are Held In Contempt, We All Suffer When pro-marijuana advocates gathered in downtown Vancouver recently to smoke pot in defiance of the law, many puzzled citizens wondered why the police took no action against them. ...As John Winter, president of the B.C. Chamber of Commerce, told The Province editorial board: "In a perfect world, the police would have dealt with them with some severity, but the fact is the police don't have the support of the community."
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| 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 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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