Current Affairs (2005) -
Reform (469 items)
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| Dec 6, 2005 |
Minto Ties Pot, Fatal Fall One of Ottawa's largest landlords blames an 11-year-old boy's deadly fall on his mother's use of marijuana. Another desperate attempt to demonize pot smoking... |
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| Dec 7, 2005 |
Judge May Ban Police A judge vowed yesterday to limit the number of off-duty Winnipeg police officers who have flooded a misconduct hearing and literally surrounded three men who claim they were assaulted by police. A frightening look at police mentality... |
| Dec 8, 2005 |
Security Firm Offers Rental Service To Combat Grow-Ops Leo Knight, a senior vice-president of Paladin Security Group Ltd., said the company now has trained personnel who will monitor a landlord's property for any drug activity....In some cases, Knight notes, they will give a tenant notice they want to do an interior inspection. Another very disturbing trend initiated by a prohibitionist with the only way out is being able to afford your own home. Easier said than done. |
| Dec 8, 2005 |
Insurance Woes Force Man To Dismantle Medical Marijuana Grow Operation He is licensed to grow up to 15 plants for distribution to the patient. Because of the nature of the product, Selenski said he has taken numerous security measures to protect the operation, including cameras, alarms, guard dogs and a tall chain link fence...Even so, when he tried to have the equipment needed for the grow operation insured for about $3,000, he was told by his primary insurer to dismantle the operation within 30 days or risk losing his insurance on his shop and home as well, More harrassement...Hopefully the stance of insurance companies will be challenged in court. |
| Dec 8, 2005 |
More Guns In Grow-Ops According to StatsCan, there have been 137 marijuana-related homicides between 1992 and 2002. Nice propaganda work... it should say "PROHIBITION-related homicides", but the mindless media copy police PR's verbatim. |
| Dec 9, 2005 |
Pot-Party Head Backs NDP B.C. Marijuana Party president Marc Emery, facing extradition to the U.S. for allegedly selling marijuana seeds by mail, plans to back the NDP in the federal election. Emery's lawyer yesterday asked B.C. Supreme Court for clarification on his bail conditions and whether Emery could take part in the political campaign. Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm said he could, but warned him to be careful what he says. |
| Dec 9, 2005 |
Grow-Op Busting Initiative Wins Public Safety Award The initiative essentially involves the fire department filing freedom-of-information requests for hydro bills of suspected grow-op addresses. Once the information is obtained, officials knock on the door of the address with an order for an electrical inspection. ..Garis said the object of the project is strictly public and firefighter safety. Using "safety" as a means to erode more privacy rights is a newer line in an old plot - maintianing prohibition. |
| Dec 9, 2005 |
If You Toke, Don't Drive The Pot and Driving Campaign is an attempt to raise awareness about the dangers and prevalence of driving while impaired by pot...."In Canada we boast the highest use of pot in the world but there's a naivete surrounding young drivers; they think driving drunk is bad, they don't think that driving on pot is bad." |
| Dec 10, 2005 |
Commissionaire Pleads Guilty To Drug Trafficking Red Deer provincial court Judge Thomas Schollie heard Friday that about 115 grams of marijuana would fetch about $1,000 on the street. Inside the medium-security penitentiary, that amount of grass would bring in about $37,000, federal Crown prosecutor Dave Inglis told court. |
| Dec 11, 2005 |
Decriminalize Pot - Layton "Our view is there should be rules around marijuana use, personal use, age, driving, trafficking, mass production and marketing," he said. ... "When something is criminalized to the extent that marijuana is you have by definition created a context for organized crime," he said. With just five seats out of B.C.'s 36, a strong finish this election could translate into big gains for the NDP. Besides the Greens, the NDP have the best platform for cannabis reform. |
| Dec 11, 2005 |
The Phony War On Drugs A Quick Reading of History Should Convince Stephen Harper That Get-Tough Attitudes to Drugs in Canada Just Makes the Problem Worse Another suberb oped by Dan Gardener |
| Dec 13, 2005 |
Local Residents Shown How To Spot Drug Grow He said to look for windows covered up or lights that go on in dark houses at scheduled times of the day. Often the houses are uninhabited, so take notice of flyers building up or a lack of garbage. A strong, skunk smell would also be an indication of illegal activity. Loud buzzing noises emitted from generators or fans may be audible from outside the building as well. Watch for people entering and exiting through the garage door which may mean that the main entrances have been barricaded to prevent marijuana theft from other 'competititors'. Are they educating the public on what to look for, or are they educating growers on what not to do? |
| Dec 13, 2005 |
Christmas Angels: Why Its Hip to Buy Hemp Neil Roberts, Calvin Rubens, David Staples and Roger LeMesurier are Grade 9 students at Loyalist and Kingston collegiate and vocational institutes. Together, they've founded Hemp Helps, an organization that sells hemp bracelets in support of children orphaned by AIDS in Africa. |
| Dec 13, 2005 |
Grow-Ops Growing In Number Since the start of 2005, police in Ontario have raided 15 farm-sized pot fields, with each property housing between 7,000 and 24,000 plants. Overall, the Orillia-based OPP Drug Enforcement Section is reporting a 100-per-cent increase in the number of plants seized over the past year. Between January and September, officers dismantled more than 600 grow operations and uprooted in excess of 400,000 plants. Seizures in areas surrounding Bancroft, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Kincardine are up 600 per cent, Elbers said. Tax and regulate |
| Dec 15, 2005 |
Pharma's Frankenweed By wrongly classifying marijuana as an illicit drug, the government has effectively provided itself with a monopoly over the production of cannabis. Health Canada operates one of the largest grow ops in the world in Flin Flon. Perhaps it should take the initiative to bring this valuable plant into the conventional pharmacopeia. This is unlikely to happen, and even if it did we would likely see the same profit-driven recklessness that corrupts private sector drug development. |
| Dec 15, 2005 |
New Law Cuts Off Power To Suspected Grow-Ops TORONTO -- Under a new provincial law, electricity distributors in Ontario can cut power to homes when they suspect residents are trying to grow pot. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Oh yeah, anything goes in the "war on pot" |
| Dec 15, 2005 |
Ragga Little Pills Meanwhile, a more modest product call Med-Marijuana has hit pharmacy shelves across the country, promising pain relief for osteo-arthritis sufferers. The natural remedy carries a low profile in legalization debates since there's no potential to get high: all it offers is a dose of marijuana-seed oil in a gel caplet. But the product has rapidly gained a following in a middle-aged population tired of testing every new anti-inflammatory, pain-killing, gut-corroding arthritis pill being pushed by the mainstream pharmaceutical industry. Medicines of the future.... |
| Dec 15, 2005 |
This Man Loves Herb More Than You Edmonton-reared David Malmo-Levine was our keynote pot activist in the '90s, writing for The Gateway, organizing wild rallies and handing me lit joints on television as police stood at the edge of Gazebo Park, staring. |
| Dec 16, 2005 |
One Thing Is Missing In The Agonizing Over Gang Jeffrey Miron, an economist at Boston University, has studied the links between violence and prohibition -- of both alcohol and other drugs -- over the past century. His research found a strong correlation not only between violence and a drug's legal status -- the moment it's banned, violence goes up -- but also between violence and the amount of money spent trying to enforce the ban. |
| Dec 17, 2005 |
Variety Of Methods Help Users Get High Some local marijuana users are connoisseurs it seems, according to a new demand for pot-related devices. |