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Current Affairs 2008 - Seized Children (4 items)
| Jul 8, 2008 | Children Seized After Grow-op Bust Three children are in protective custody after the seizure of hundreds of marijuana plants in a quiet Brooks neighbourhood.
The raid on Friday in a home in northwest Brooks led to children ranging in age from two to 11 being placed in provincial care from a home condemned by the Palliser Health Region due to widespread toxic mould.
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| Mar 28, 2008 | Protection Needed for Kids in Pot Grow Homes: Councillor Children's health and safety is at stake when they grow up in drug houses, Bateman said.
When Langley Township's Public Safety Inspection Teams visit a local home, they often find evidence of drugs. All too frequently, they also find toys and playpens.
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| Mar 27, 2008 | Alberta: The Nanny State Indeed, they considered it necessary in the preamble to the Drug-Endangered Children Act to state categorically that "children exposed to illegal manufacturing of drugs, indoor cannabis operations, trafficking and other forms of illegal drug activity are victims of abuse."
That is as wild a claim as it is unsupportable. But the circumstances under which it may be invoked are so broad there is little that can be done to counter its stupidity. Although the preamble suggests that only the really serious stuff is the object of the Act, a child is deemed to be drug-endangered if he or she is "exposed" to illegal substances. That's it. Full stop.
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| Jan 1, 2008 | PUB LTE: Medical Marijuana Grow-ops Okay For Kids Re: "Are the kids all right?" News, Dec. 21, 2007.
You editorial asks "What kind of a parent would subject toddlers to the dangers of living in a marijuana grow operation?"
Why, a parent who has a chronic medical condition and has a licence from Health Canada to set up a so-called "grow-op."
Health Canada licenses these so-called "grow-ops" for critically and chronically ill Canadians from coast to coast to coast, and their regulations say nothing about children.
When set up properly, home indoor gardens are just as safe as hot tubs.
Indoor growing, done properly, is perfectly safe, but a well-crafted propaganda campaign on behalf of anti-marijuana groups ( basically just the police, those experts on medical issues ) seems to have infiltrated the national conversation and the media.
TIM MEEHAN
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