Current Affairs (2005) -
Propaganda (469 items)
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| Jan 13, 2005 |
CN AB:
Who Let The Dogs Into Our Schools? Maybe I'm hopelessly old-fashioned, but I don't see how bringing drug-sniffing dogs into high schools can be called "extremely positive." |
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| Jan 13, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Schools Make Drugs Cool Parents are right to be slamming the failed drug policy employed not only in our schools, but in our whole society. Making drugs an "evil taboo" just adds to it's allure and it's "cool." |
| Jan 13, 2005 |
Cannabis For Connoisseurs Pot Guru Ed Rosenthal Releases The Second Volume Of His Big Book Of Buds |
| Jan 13, 2005 |
CN ON:
Police Jumped Gun On Stating Woman Was Impaired Police want to hammer home the message driving while impaired by marijuana can be fatal. A young woman's tragic death was used in an attempt to make that point. If only it were true, or at least, provable by scientific means. Since it wasn't, making a public declaration was not only insensitive, but also inappropriate. As Canada's political system continues to debate the merits of legalizing marijuana, our cops have toughened their stand on the drug's use. Suggesting it opens the door for other criminal activities, the police service's war on grow houses continues unabated. |
| Jan 14, 2005 |
Drug Dog Educates The jury is in - roughly 95% of my readers say they've got no problem with a drug dog being deployed in Edmonton's senior and junior high schools...To me, police should have to have probable cause before launching any search. Otherwise we're headed for a Communist-style, police-state society where authorities have sweeping powers to randomly search your vehicle, office and home. [Disturbing trend - we are led to believe, or it is true, there is wide acceptance of totalitarianism] |
| Jan 14, 2005 |
CN BC:
White Fears For Children Will Bill C-17 Abbotsford MP Randy White fears a bill that calls for the decriminalization of marijuana will give school children "the green light" to light up. [So criminalizing adults is the answer, eh?] |
| Jan 14, 2005 |
CN BC:
LTE: CADAC Sorry Parents Get Information They Wanted The idea of people, especially youth, self medicating when stressed or upset or using any medication, whether it is safe, effective, and benign for recreational purposes is one of our main concerns. How do people learn to cope with every day events and problem solve if they resort to a drug to make them feel better? [Ritalin, Valium, Prozac - It is okay for kids to use drugs to cope - as long as they are deemed the right ones] |
| Jan 15, 2005 |
CN ON:
Man Dies as Police Raid Home "The officers were attempting to arrest a man inside the home and became involved in a struggle with him," the statement read. "At approximately 2:07 a.m., police requested an ambulance because the man was having trouble breathing." |
| Jan 15, 2005 |
CN NS:
Patriquen Faces $260,000 Fine The founder of Nova Scotia's Marijuana Party was sentenced Friday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court. |
| Jan 15, 2005 |
Cn BC:
Preventing Marijuana Grow-ops Author: Beth Blackburn, RCMP Note: RCMP Const. Beth Blackburn is the drug awareness coordinator for central Vancouver Island. Landlords should screen prospective tenants carefully and conduct regular inspections of the property. |
| Jan 16, 2005 |
CN BC;
Cannabis Crusade - A House Divided On the face of it, Phillippe Lucas, and Ted Smith, share common cause. Why, then, do they barely talk to each other? |
| Jan 17, 2005 |
CN QU:
Psychologist In Trouble Over Pot Offer A high-profile Montreal psychologist specializing in addictions is in hot water with his professional order for offering to procure cannabis for a former client. |
| Jan 17, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Growing Like Weed Now if they would only do something about it -- like legalize, regulate and tax. |
| Jan 17, 2005 |
Pot Prohibition A Policy Flop If we needed any more proof that the war being waged against pot is futile, we got it a few days ago in a Health Canada report. The federal agency reports pot is easier to get in Canadian school yards than tobacco. |
| Jan 19, 2005 |
CN BC:
Want Stiffer Sentences For Grow-Ops? Lobby MPs, Not Judges only one in seven people in British Columbia -- and only one in 13 in Vancouver -- convicted of growing marijuana between 2002 and 2004 received a jail sentence. Not surprisingly, law enforcement personnel, who have stepped up raids on grow-ops in recent years, are disappointed with the sentencing records. B.C. Solicitor-General Rich Coleman has also expressed disappointment with the courts.. |
| Jan 19, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Pot Prohbition Puts Public Safety At Risk <strong> All the police hours spent busting grow-ops could have been spent finding rapists and thieves and drunk drivers. Howard J. Wooldridge, (Retired) Law Enforcement Against Prohibition,</strong> <a href=" http://leap.cc/" target="_blank">http://leap.cc/</a> |
| Jan 19, 2005 |
CN BC:
Activists Call For 'Sensitive' Cops "The type of training they receive is basically battlefield conditions, and we're not the enemy," |
| Jan 19, 2005 |
Product Information Sheet on Dried Marihuana <strong>Office of Cannabis Medical Access</strong>: The manufacturing process involves milling of the plant material in order to produce a homogeneous marihuana product...To ensure dried marihuana microbiological safety, the product has been irradiated by gamma irradiation to reduce to undetectable levels, using well-established methodologies, potentially harmful bacteria and microbial load which may cause spoilage. Irradiation ensures that people using the marihuana and who may have compromised immune systems, are not exposed to toxic spores which occur naturally in plants. <br> <a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/ocma/publication/information_sheet_dried_marihuana.htm" target=_blank">Product Information Sheet on spp.) [PDF]</a> <br> <a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/ocma/publication/information_sheet_marihuana_seeds.htm" target=_blank">Product Information Sheet on Marihuana (Cannabis spp.) Seeds [PDF]</a><br> [There is concern about this product and process. See Canadians For Safe Access <a href="http://safeaccess.ca/research/flinflon/"> Flin Flon section</a>] |
| Jan 20, 2005 |
CN QU:
Coffee Pot Closed To little fanfare, the Coffee Pot, the Latin Quarter pot-smoking lounge and restaurant, closed its doors last month....business was so slow that he had no choice but to shut its doors just before Christmas. |
| Jan 20, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Pot Prohibition Is A Failed Social Policy Excuse me, but why are we jailing any pot growers? We should be licensing them and forcing them to pay taxes, just like every other business. |