Current Affairs (2005) -
Police (469 items)
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| Nov 2, 2005 |
Health Critic Calls For End To Pot Mine Federal Health Critic Steven Fletcher is calling on Ottawa to shut down the nation's most famous grow-op. "The government-run marijuana grow-op in Flin Flon, Manitoba, has been a bust. The crop has little medicinal value and may be corrupted by mine contaminants," said Fletcher, speaking in the House of Commons earlier this year. "Will the [Health] Minister shut down the operation or will taxpayers continue to be shafted?" [When you consider the government has spent millions of dollars running a grow op that no one benefits from except the people hired by Health Canada to administrate, while compassion clubs are far more effective and cost taxpayers nothing....] |
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| Nov 3, 2005 |
Marijuana Vs Alcohol - The Straight-Up Dope The California Research Advisory Panel has stated that "[pot] is responsible for less damage to society and the individual than are alcohol and cigarettes." So what's the deal? ... The Canadian Bureau of Justice Statistics finds that more violent crimes are committed under the influence of alcohol than any other drug.... It finds that when it comes to crime, most pot smokers cause no other misdeed than the possession of the pot itself. ... The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse states that nearly half of all car crash deaths involve alcohol. In the United States it's the number one contributing factor in young deaths, and accounts for a quarter of all youth hospital visits. Pot on the other hand, was involved in less than two per cent of drug-related visits to the hospital in 1994. [Common sense tells us alcohol is more dangerous than pot... but then there's politics...] |
| Nov 5, 2005 |
Activist's Infant Son 'Not At Risk' The Children's Aid Society of Hamilton has concluded Chris and Melissa Goodwin's marijuana use does not put their infant son, Christian, at risk. |
| Nov 6, 2005 |
Cannabis Oil Coming It Won't Get You High but Product Said to Be Great For Arthritis... Actually, the Med-Marijuana line of herbal remedies contains so little of the psychoactive ingredient found in weed, you could down a whole bottle without feeling the slightest buzz. |
| Nov 8, 2005 |
Landlords Paying For Grow Op Costs Landlords harbouring marijuana grow operations have coughed up $142,000 to the Maple Ridge since a new anti-pot bylaw was passed 10 months ago, district staff say. The RCMP have taken the lion's share of the fines and fees so far, with $97,939 charged to landlords just for the police costs. The Building Special Inspection Fee has added $10,800, the Re-Occupancy fee another $9,000 and the Fire Department has charged $8,644. There have also been $15,987 in other charges. [Imagine a world where plants were allowed to grow where they normally do...] |
| Nov 8, 2005 |
LTE: Why Not Legalize Theft, Burglary, Rape? If legalizing is equal to less crimes and less court times, then why not legalize theft, burglary, rape? Our courts would havea less burden and judges can go on longer holidays. We can cut the police force in half and save money. [This so-called logic defies normal intelligence... in the school of life 101, most of us can differentiate between something we do to ourselves versus something done to us by others... BIG DIFFERENCE] |
| Nov 8, 2005 |
MDs' Cannabis Outlooks Affect Patient Treatment Age, sex and whether or not they had ever personally used cannabis were predictive factors for a willingness to discuss cannabis use with patients, said study author Dr. Craig Jones ( PhD ), co-ordinator of the Network for Studies in Primary Care at the department of family medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont. |
| Nov 9, 2005 |
RCMP Constable Faces Four More Assault Charges After an internal investigation, former Lillooet RCMP Cst. Dan St. Amand is facing four more charges of assault with a weapon. After deStrake and others attending the Feb. 5 party complained about St. Amand using excessive force, other Lillooet residents came forward with complaints about the Mountie. [The myth that the police are our friends was crushed long ago when prohibition and vice laws were put on the books] |
| Nov 9, 2005 |
Putting Pot In Perspective The last two weeks have seen the issue of marijuana grow ops rear its ugly head in Nanton. ...The grow op in question involved nine plants... Last month, Calgary Police Service Sergeant Roger Morrison told landowners at the MD of Ranchland that <b>grow operations are generally the precursor to much worse things, namely funding the devlopment of methaphetamine labs</b>...Pot grow ops may be used to fund meth labs in other places, but it would be great to focus on eliminating the very real problem of meth sellers and abusers in this area. [It's amazing that the cops can keep dreaming up this crap to spew out to the lapdog media, though it looks like it may be a harder sell..] |
| Nov 9, 2005 |
Nailing Marijuana Growing Operations Delta police may have the best, and simplest, way to deal with illegal drug growers -- investigate, arrest and make sure criminal charges stick. |
| Nov 10, 2005 |
Police Rules Weren't Followed, Inquest Told The night Heather Benson died in RCMP custody, some regulations were not followed, a coroner's inquest heard Tuesday. Benson died while being transported by the RCMP from Tagish to Whitehorse, when the police cruiser rolled off the road and into the ditch. She was thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene of the accident as a result of chest wounds, on Sept. 27, 2003. Const. Jeff Monkman, who was driving the car, was convicted of careless driving in a trial held last February and fined $1,000. [This sums up everything that is wrong with the system as we know it] |
| Nov 11, 2005 |
Facts Don't Support Crime Fears "In Canada, we think we don't have the crime and crime rates ( as they do in America ) but it is becoming very clear we can no longer be complacent in the face of rising crime levels in Canada and in B.C. in particular." The problem is that just isn't true. According to a July 2005 report from Statistics Canada, the national crime rate fell one per cent in 2004. [If the media always did their job of investigating "facts" we would see very different news articles about cannabis] |
| Nov 12, 2005 |
Hospital To Pot User: Buzz Off The Saskatoon Health Region's smoking policy was revised more than a year ago, but recently a patient discovered the air isn't completely clear on how to deal with authorized medical marijuana users in city hospitals. [Every hospital should be equipped with a vapourizer so med pot in hospitals doesn't become an issue... such an easy solution, so it will probably never be implemented.] |
| Nov 12, 2005 |
Activist Accused Of Trying To Hijack Forum A pot activist who used a crowded rural forum to confront police Chief Brian Mullan says he'll keep speaking out at future meetings, despite being blasted by an irate city councillor. Councillor Margaret McCarthy says she had to tell two men to "sit down and shut up" because they tried to "hijack" the meeting this week in the old Flamborough town hall. [They just can't handle the truth...] |
| Nov 12, 2005 |
Meet The Marijuana User Next Door Surprise: The Rank And File Of Canada's Multi-Billion-Dollar Pot Industry Look A lot Like You And Me Ever wondered how your neighbours managed to afford that Land Rover or the cash to cover their kids' private school tuition? Maybe they have a sideline: a secret, subterranean income booster in the form of a marijuana grow operation. To some that might sound scandalous, while others might wonder why they hadn't thought of it themselves. |
| Nov 15, 2005 |
City Faces Lawsuit Over Raid On Legal Marijuana Growers Three medical marijuana advocates are suing the City of Vancouver for $400,000 after police raided a federally licensed indoor marijuana growing operation in the basement of a rented east Vancouver home. As of Nov. 4, 1,118 people were issued medical marijuana licences by Health Canada. In B.C., there are 217 licensed users. |
| Nov 15, 2005 |
Logic Says Legalize Drugs - Reality Says It Won't Happen For one thing, nobody can even pretend any more that prohibition works... So the illicit drug trade -- and the destructive, ineffective war on drugs -- will be with us, and with Afghanistan, for a long time. [Is that all we will ever conclude is that we should, but we won't?] |
| Nov 18, 2005 |
Drugs Sold In Local High Schools Police Say The Problem Is So Big They Can't Keep Up... Police now send drug-sniffing dogs and undercover officers into your children's schools as young pushers peddle marijuana, crack, cocaine and ecstasy to fellow students. [Again, drugs in schools has been around for over 30 years, yet the kids of today are subjected to tactics that will colour their view of authority forever] |
| Nov 20, 2005 |
Pot and Your Pooch Dogs have been getting high on B.C. Bud for years, according to several local veterinarians who have treated pets who have ingested marijuana.However, there have been no cannabis-related deaths, says Brocklehouse. "They'd have to eat a helluva lot," says Shaw, speculating on what it would take before a canine OD-ed on marijuana, but that could change with any reconfiguration of street cannabis. |
| Nov 22, 2005 |
Dont Toke And Drive Campaign Begins The campaign poster, to be displayed in schools and libraries across the country, shows two airline pilots smoking pot, with the caption:"If it doesn't make sense here, why does it makes sense when you drive?" "We're trying to dispel the the myths around pot and driving," said Elinor Wilson, of the CPHA. [Tackling the issue of impaired driving while not mentioning fatigue, prescription drugs, etc, does little to combat the real problems... and <a href="http://www.potanddriving.cpha.ca/images/camp.jpg" target="_blank">this campaign</a> has already been <a href="http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/uploads/1179918-go%20pills.jpg' target="_blank">hijacked by the truth.</a> |