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Current Affairs 2008 - Government (110 items)
| 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 | City Changes Course On Hemp Bylaw Langley City council is looking to repeal a 1995 bylaw prohibiting stores from selling hemp products.
It turns out that several stores in the downtown have been carrying hemp items for years, from beauty products, clothing to hand cream and soap. Hemp beer is even sold in the provincially-run B.C. Liquor stores.
"Back then, we thought hemp was marijuana," said City Councillor Gayle Martin. She has been on council 18 years. "Now we know there is a difference between the legal and illegal stuff."
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| Nov 21, 2008 | Pot Shop May Soon Close After moving to a new location and undergoing renovations, a long-time business finds it's unable to get a business licence from the City of New Westminster.
The delay in getting the licence is because the store, Sinn and Sativa Fashions at 655 Front St., sells what the city describes as drug paraphernalia-rolling papers, pipes and bongs.
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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 19, 2008 | City Faces Lawsuit Over Safety Inspection Abbotsford's Public Safety Inspection Team, which targets illegal marijuana grow operations, is under fire in the courts again.
An Abbotsford couple is suing the City of Abbotsford in B.C. Supreme Court, saying the safety inspection team conducted an illegal search of their home.
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| Nov 15, 2008 | A Bright Green Spot in the Economy With Courts Striking Down the Government's Monopoly on Supplying Medical Marijuana, Private Growers ...Eric Nash can barely contain his excitement waiting to hear from Health Canada whether he can start growing marijuana for 250 patients.
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| Nov 10, 2008 | Proceeds-Of-Crime-Law Challenge Could Cost Provinces Millions Eight provinces will gang up on a former Carleton University student in the Supreme Court of Canada on Wednesday as it considers whether provincial governments have the constitutional power to seize the proceeds of crime.
Lawyers for Robin Chatterjee will argue that crime is a federal responsibility and therefore the Ontario government's 2001 law forcing the forfeiture of everything from houses to cash is outside provincial jurisdiction.
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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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| Oct 10, 2008 | Tory Ad Takes Potshot At NDP The radio ad stems from comments Layton made in 2003 to Pot TV, a now defunct Internet site. He called marijuana a "wonderful substance," that Canadians should be able to freely purchase or grow, and perhaps enjoy in their homes or in a cafe.
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| Oct 9, 2008 | Laws Gone To Pot A report on marijuana written by a team of world experts suggests countries interested in more rational cannabis laws simply ignore drug treaties and go their own way.
"Control regimes that criminalize users are intrusive on privacy, socially divisive and expensive. Thus, it is worth considering alternatives," says the Global Cannabis Commission Report presented in the British House of Lords last week.
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| Oct 7, 2008 | Students Told Green Party Would Legalize Marijuana The legalization of marijuana, funding for education and the arts were among the issues raised by Fleming College students at an all-candidates debate yesterday.
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| Oct 3, 2008 | Let Them Smoke Pot The Libertarians, a party in Canada since 1973, believe the less government the better, and they were in Canmore Thursday during Marijuana Week promoting the idea that the government should get out of regulating its use by adults.
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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.
[This is a federal act, so it should be argued there is no cannabis prohibition anywhere in Canada.] |
| 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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| 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 | NS: Prosecutors Silent On Pot Decision AMHERST - Federal prosecutors aren't about to say why drug charges against two Halifax County men were dropped nearly three years after they were laid and just three weeks before their trial was to begin.
... Police seized more than 1,000 marijuana plants from the two homes, $1,000 worth of electronic equipment used in the grow-op and an undisclosed amount of money.
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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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