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Current Affairs 2008 - Culture (109 items)
| Apr 15, 2008 | Midlife Toking on the Rise An increasing number of adults - particularly those in their 30s and 40s - are using marijuana, according to a new Ontario-wide report that reflects what experts describe as a growing cross-country trend.
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| Apr 10, 2008 | One-Quarter of Students Smoking Up During School One in four Nanaimo secondary students is using marijuana while at school.
That's one of the findings of the second annual Safe Schools Survey conducted in Nanaimo secondary schools in February 2007. Almost 5,000 students from Grades 8-12 took the survey.
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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 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 17, 2008 | AB: Alderman Wants To Ganja Up On Head Shops But Owners Doobieous That aldermen would consider prohibiting paraphernalia has Calgary bong and pipe purveyors uptight -- they say politicians are meddling in a perfectly legal business.
And they're right, technically.
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| Mar 12, 2008 | Pot Seed Sales Do Not Warrant Export Finally, a court ruling that puts in perspective the five to 10 years' imprisonment that B.C. cannabis crusader Marc Emery faces in U.S. prison for selling pot seeds.
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| Mar 6, 2008 | Sweet Leaf Relief A small yet passionate group of Calgarians is working diligently to provide medicinal marijuana to ease the suffering of those struck with debilitating illnesses such as multiple sclerosis, cancer and chronic pain.
Founded in the fall of 2002, the Calgary Medicinal Marijuana Centre ( CMMC ) is a not-for-profit co-operative that aims to provide its members with a reliable supply of marijuana through a network of authorized growers, to act as a support group and to educate people on the oft-vilified plant's effects on a variety of illnesses.
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| Mar 6, 2008 | Prince Of Pot Still In Limbo The fate of Vancouver's Prince of Pot is still uncertain after his extradition hearing yesterday was again postponed while Canadian and American prosecutors negotiate how to legally sentence him in both countries.
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| Feb 22, 2008 | War On Drugs Is Blowing Up In Our Faces, Expert Warns Oscapella is absolutely convinced that the prohibition of drugs is "the most significant failing of the criminal justice system of the 20th, and now, 21st centuries." ...
On this 100th anniversary of prohibition, maybe we have to ask ourselves, are we addicted to prohibition?
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| Feb 20, 2008 | Vancouver Police Raid The Herb School and Arrest Activist David Malmo-Levine The Vancouver Police raided the Vancouver Herb School, arresting David Malmo-Levine and others. Malmo-Levine was taken into custody at 12:30pm Pacific time, and charges are pending for Trafficking, Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking, and (possibly) Possession of Paraphernalia. He will be kept in custody overnight. Lawyer Kirk Tousaw has been secured to represent Malmo-Levine tomorrow morning.
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| Feb 18, 2008 | 100 Years Of Sobriety In Vancouver In 1923, without debate or discussion, it was announced that "there is a new drug in the schedule," and the use, sale, and possession of marijuana was made illegal, largely for fear that Mexican migrants and Negro jazz musicians would use it to seduce white women. It was understood that the laws would not be applied to the white populace.
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| Feb 14, 2008 | SN: Jury Returns Verdict In Massive Grow-Op Case Drawing comparisons to Christ, the self-described head chief of Turtle Island says he's being persecuted for making "medicine" at the request of the Creator after a jury convicted him and two disciples of growing marijuana.
"I'm a messenger. That's all. If they want to kill the messenger, they can go right ahead. They did it before with Jesus," an unrepentant Lawrence Hubert Agecoutay, who turned 52 on Christmas, said after the jury returned its verdict late Wednesday afternoon.
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| Feb 11, 2008 | QU: A Little Science With Your Cafe, Madame? Tomorrow night, Montrealers will get a chance to share their thoughts and concerns at a Cafe Scientifique, an informal gathering where members of the public can chat with leading researchers in a setting that is less intimidating than a classroom or a doctor's office. ....The CIHR Cafe Scientifique's "Drugs: the Good, the Bad and the Useful" takes place tomorrow at 6 p.m. at O Patro Vys, 356 Mount Royal Ave. E. ( corner St. Denis St. ). Admission is free.
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| Feb 11, 2008 | ON: Pot Smoker Fights Bar Ban A man who uses "medical marijuana" [sic] to deal with pain from a neck injury he suffered in Mississauga nearly two decades ago is appealing to the Ontario Human Rights Commission for the right to smoke up in front of a Burlington sports bar he frequents. .."He wants me outside his bar by 100 feet. I just want to be treated like every other ( tobacco ) smoker," whom he says are often within 10 feet of the bar's front doors.
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| Feb 11, 2008 | Medical Marijuana Advocates Cry Foul Today, discussion about reforming the country's marijuana laws is not on the political landscape. If anything, the country is moving in the opposite direction.
The government of Stephen Harper has ruled out any changes to the law, and during a visit to marijuana-friendly Vancouver last week, Liberal leader Stephane Dion said his party is not going to advocate for the end of criminal sanctions for possession...
As well, almost 45,000 criminal charges for simple possession continue to be laid each year, up nearly 20% from a decade ago.
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| Feb 9, 2008 | NS: He's 'A Healer, Not A Dealer' AMHERST - A Maccan-area man who insists he has found the cure for cancer says he is leaving Canada for an unnamed country where he can live without fear of persecution or prosecution for taking and producing medicinal marijuana.
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| Feb 9, 2008 | Elaborate Grow-Op Defence One To Remember Agecoutay as much as argues he can grow whatever he wants. He claims to be chief and spiritual leader of his own sovereign nation. As such, he makes his own laws on his own territory. Among his legislative initiatives, for example, is the sale over the Internet of memberships in his First Nation for $10,500. The fee is justified by Agecoutay's claim that members are exempt from Canadian taxes. Three of his co-accused are tax deniers from out of province who met Agecoutay through his website. The other two are Agecoutay's brothers, all three residing on the reserve. Apparently there is some jurisdictional overlap between the Pasqua First Nation and Agecoutay's First Nation.
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