Current Affairs (2008) -
Chronological (386 items)
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| Jan 25, 2008 |
The Pot Circus Comes to the Courthouse First the cops took their pot. Now they want to take their church. Weed worshippers Walter Tucker and Michael Baldasaro, reverends in the Church of the Universe, were served yesterday with an application by the attorney general to forfeit the Barton Street building the brothers call both home and church. The AG is going after the house worth about $98,000 as "offence-related property" since Tucker and Baldasaro were convicted of selling $70 worth of marijuana to an undercover police officer. |
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| Jan 25, 2008 |
BC:
Grow Busts Multiply The second grow-op drug bust this year marks another in a series of crackdowns by police, increasing the number to a level never before seen even by drug officers. The second grow-op drug bust this year marks another in a series of crackdowns by police, increasing the number to a level never before seen even by drug officers. |
| Jan 26, 2008 |
Jury Shown Video Of 'Pastoral' Grow-Ops The three-hour movie is a compilation of seven video camera discs seized inside a teepee from which three men fled during a dawn raid on the site at the Pasqua First Nation. The Aug. 21, 2005 search, which included the RCMP's emergency response team ( ERT ), turned up more than 6,000 suspected marijuana plants, most of which were growing in six homemade greenhouses estimated to be about 60 by seven metres in size. |
| Jan 26, 2008 |
ON:
Cops Post Grow-Ops New homeowners in Ottawa will know if their dream house is a former marijuana grow operation or crystal meth lab as of Feb. 1. On that date Ottawa police will start posting addresses of busted drug operations on their website, following the lead of other Ontario municipalities that provide similar information to residents. |
| Jan 27, 2008 |
Border Guard Found Guilty of Accepting Sex Bribes A former U.S. border guard has been convicted of accepting sexual bribes from a drug-smuggling Vancouver prostitute and giving her a free pass at the border. |
| Jan 29, 2008 |
Man Sues Police For Wrecking Grow-op The Saanich Police Department is being sued by a man who claims his marijuana grow operation was damaged during a police raid, even though he had a Health Canada certificate to legally grow the substance. ..."Ninety-five [plants]... is well above personal consumption and most of it would go bad before the person could smoke it," said Price. |
| Jan 31, 2008 |
Carousel Harvest Appeal The Crown is appealing the right for medical growers to grow cannabis for more than one patient. See: <a href="http://cannabiscoalition.ca/html/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=154" target="_blank">Federal Court strikes down regulation limiting growers of medical marijuana</a> for background. |
| Jan 31, 2008 |
Carousel Harvest Appeal [PDF] The Crown is appealing the ruling that allows medical cannabis growers to grow for more than one patient. For more background, see: <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v08/n039/a09.html" target="_blank">Ottawa Loses Marijuana Fight</a> <a href="http://cannabiscoalition.ca/html/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12&mode=thread&order=1&thold=0">Federal Court strikes down regulation limiting growers of medical marijuana</a> |
| Feb 1, 2008 |
Understanding the Motivations for Recreational This exploratory qualitative research seeks to better understand both the motives for the use of marijuana by adult Canadians* and their learned "drug experience" expectancies through an examination of their subjective experiences with the drug. This neglected area of research has implications for drug consumption prevention educators and treatment counselors, particularly those who are wary of "statistical reductionism" and sensitive to the clinical value of gaining an understanding of the subjective experiences of those who use and misuse drugs (Feinstein, 1999). |
| Feb 5, 2008 |
BC:
Drug Charges Against Victim Had Been Stayed Just nine days before Pritpal Singh Virk was gunned down Saturday, a series of drug charges laid against the Richmond teen had been stayed by federal prosecutors, court records show. |
| Feb 6, 2008 |
ON:
Rights body grants hearing to joint smoker An Ontario man who was told he was not allowed to smoke medical marijuana outside a local sports bar has been granted a hearing at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, one of the first cases of its kind in Canadian history. Steve Gibson, a father of two, is claiming he was discriminated against because of his disability after he was barred from Gator Ted's Tap and Grill in Burlington, Ont., in May, 2005, for smoking marijuana by the restaurant's front door. |
| Feb 6, 2008 |
BC:
Business With Grow-Op Loses Licence Richmond - Operating a grow-op and keeping shoddy records were grounds used by city council to cancel a business licence and suspend another on Monday. |
| Feb 7, 2008 |
Pot Grower's Rights Violated: Judge A Surrey pot grower's Charter rights were violated when police used a battering ram to break down his door and find more than 700 plants in his basement, a B.C. Supreme Court judge just ruled. Police are unhappy with the ruling, and hope the Crown will appeal it. |
| Feb 8, 2008 |
AB:
Periodic Pooch Patrol A Positive Plan Attila Toldy and his police dog, Riff, have been given the go-ahead to start making random rounds at Elk Island Catholic School's ( EICS ) high schools within Strathcona County while kids are in class and out of the halls. Riff's powerful nose can sniff out crack, cocaine, psilocybin ( magic mushrooms ), marijuana and any other form of drug that police want him to. [The procedure adds to ongoing evidence of creeping fascism with genocidal leanings unless the dog detects tobacco, alcohol,prescription and OTC drugs as well] |
| Feb 8, 2008 |
BC:
Appeal Grow-Op Ruling: Farnworth An accused pot grower caught a big break from a B.C. Supreme Court judge this week when his case was tossed out after the judge ruled the Surrey RCMP acted unreasonably during the raid on his house. Mike Farnworth, the provincial NDP's public safety critic, has called on the attorney general to appeal the decision. "I don't agree with this ruling," he said, fearing it might potentially hamper the ability of the police to take down grow ops. [So what makes the NDP different from the Liberals or Conservatives? Why should anyone vote for them?] |
| Feb 8, 2008 |
BC:
City Stands Behind Inspection Bylaw Richmond - The chair of the city's community safety committee is standing behind a bylaw that targets residential marijuana grow-ops, despite strong public reaction against it. [Voters have to change their politicians, beginning at the local level and all the way up, if they want to be heard] |
| 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. |
| Feb 9, 2008 |
Behind The Toronto Police Scandal Years Of Investigation Went Into A Case That, Thanks To Judge's Ruling, May Never Go To Trial Dozens of police officers under suspicion. A million pages of documents. Thousands of interviews. Hundreds of criminal charges. Easily the worst scandal in Toronto police history. And then it fell apart. Charges were stayed because the prosecutors took too long in handing over the mountain of evidence to the defence. [An definitive work on this subject] |
| 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. |
| Feb 9, 2008 |
Safe-injection Clinics Are Okay, Legal Cannabis Is Not, Dion Says The federal Liberal Party has no intention of advocating the legalization of cannabis, but Leader Stephane Dion made it clear yesterday that under a Liberal government, other Canadian cities could have safe-injection sites like the one in Vancouver. |