Current Affairs (2005) -
USA (469 items)
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| Feb 5, 2005 |
CN QU:
Pot Sentences Softened People convicted of minor drug offences shouldn't necessarily be doing time behind bars, according to the Quebec Court of Appeal. |
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| Feb 6, 2005 |
UN:
US Cash Threat to AIDS War The United Nations agency responsible for the global fight against drugs has been forced to abandon its campaign to reduce Aids infection by giving clean needles to heroin addicts after threats by America to end its funding, [One of the few blessings that could come from the imminent crash of the US economy: cancelling the war on some drug users due to lack of funds] |
| Feb 6, 2005 |
Europe:
Spain to Test Cannabis As Aid for Patients Spain's socialist government has given the go-ahead for the most wide-ranging trial of therapeutic cannabis ever conducted, putting the country at the forefront of drug policy. Four hospitals, 60 pharmacies and up to 1,500 patients in Catalunya will take part in a year-long pilot programme sponsored by the regional government to establish the drug's effectiveness in treating a range of conditions. [They must have realized watching the Canadian program was a waste of time] |
| Feb 8, 2005 |
CN AB:
Police raid orchid grow-op Using a battering ram to force entry through the front door of the home a few days ago, officers found perfectly legal orchids growing inside instead of marijuana plants, [Canadians should all be encouraged to grow herbs and vegetables in their homes due to our climate, and offset the rising cost and contamination of the food supply. This would also help keep police in check.] |
| Feb 9, 2005 |
CN NK:
Defence in N.B. pot trial seizes on Ottawa's slow response to medical need New Brunswick - Ottawa's slow and cautious response to requests for medicinal marijuana has become an issue for the defence in a New Brunswick drug trafficking trial. [This significant case deals directly with the inadequacies of the government program.] |
| Feb 9, 2005 |
CN BC:
It's No Fix, But It's The Best We Can Do For Addicts "I would bet any amount of money the U.S. has exerted extreme pressure on Canada to abort this trial," Alex Wodak, a prominent Australian addictions researcher, has said. He should know: U.S. opposition helped to abort a heroin trial in his country. It is to Ottawa's credit that Canada has resisted similar pressure from the Bush administration, whose addictions policies owe more to narrow moralism than to science, compassion or insight. [Canada promised to crack down harder on cannabis users in return for no interference into the heroin trial? <br><br> Another example (like the war in Iraq), where we are more in tune with our European ancestors than our Commonwealth cousins.] |
| Feb 9, 2005 |
Health Canada suspends the market authorization of ADDERALL XR? Health Canada has suspended the market authorization of the product due to safety information concerning the association of sudden deaths, heart-related deaths, and strokes in children and adults taking usual recommended doses of ADDERALL and ADDERALL XR. [How many deaths from cannabis after thousands of years of use? NONE. But it is banned. Where's the logic, science or any other justification? UPDATE: <a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/nr-cp/2005/2005_92_e.html" target="_blank">August 24, 2005: Health Canada allows Adderall XR? back on the Canadian market</a> Who can protect us against Health Canada? ] |
| Feb 10, 2005 |
CN AB:
Guard Charged With Trafficking EDMONTON - A guard at the Edmonton Remand Centre was arrested for drug trafficking Tuesday just before entering the facility. |
| Feb 11, 2005 |
Will The Real Dopes In This Marijuana-Use Study Please Stand Up How Much Marijuana Does A Research Volunteer Need To Smoke To Demonstrate That Dope Is Bad For Your Brains? Apparently, Up To 350 Joints A Week. [350 joints a week - 50 per day...that would eliminate (with a few exceptions) the entire pot smoking population... the study is nothing but more propaganda- which is why most US drug research is discredited by serious scientists] |
| Feb 11, 2005 |
LTE: Dear Mary Jane Ganja Herb Some of the long-term effects that you can produce are short-term memory loss as well as the inability to do divided-attention tasks. Therefore, smoking you impairs a person's ability to operate a motor vehicle. That makes you as dangerous as alcohol on our roads. [Okay - now we have cops talking to plants...what next? ] |
| Feb 11, 2005 |
CN BC:
Local Judge Sends Critics A Message If Judge Wilf Klinger Were Permitted To Write A Letter To The Editor Explaining Why Judges Impose The Sentences They Do, He Probably Would |
| Feb 13, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Grow-Op Hazard Hyped But police want to make sure that the public is deathly afraid of marijuana growing because they want prohibition to stay in effect. That is why they exaggerate the dangers and value of plants, and the press just report what police tell them without asking any questions. |
| Feb 13, 2005 |
Heading South? Read This Travelers to the U.S. who have a criminal record - regardless of the offence or how long ago it occurred - may be refused entry, she learned. Pardons issued by the Canadian government are not recognized in the U.S., and travelers with criminal records are supposed to contact the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to find out about admissibility. Those ineligible to travel into the country may apply for a waiver. |
| Feb 15, 2005 |
Breath-Testing Technology Goes To High School A Growing Number Of Principals Are Buying Devices To Check For Alcohol - Or Drugs [ You have to wonder what's next...] |
| Feb 15, 2005 |
A Genuine Joint The Hot Box Cafe isn't some trendy side-street eatery on Bloor West. It is Toronto's first and only marijuana cafe, tailored to the city's 'high' society. Nestled between Kensington Carpets and open-air grocery stores in the heart of Kensington Market, it's a place where patrons can sit down for a coffee and smoke a joint. Customers are encouraged to bring and smoke their own weed in the cafe. |
| Feb 16, 2005 |
CN ON:
More Grow-Ops In Toronto Than US Ontario Cabinet ministers who back calls for harsher gun-crime penalties say Toronto is home to as many marijuana grow operations as all of the United States and claim that criminals in the city now rent guns for weekend jobs "like they are videos from a video store." [They never mention where they get these so-called "facts". Anyone with half a brain would know this is nothing more than fantasy reporting at it's finest.] |
| Feb 16, 2005 |
CN ON:
Teen Turns In Drug Producing Dad Peel Regional Police say a 15-year-old Meadowvale girl turned her father in this week, telling investigators he was operating a massive marijuana lab in the basement of the family home. "More and more often, parents are exposing their children to the hazards of marijuana grow labs," [More and more reasons to legalize and regulate] |
| Feb 16, 2005 |
'Smoke Pits' To Be Eliminated SAY GOODBYE to the high school smoke pit, the refuge of rebellious, cigarette-puffing teens since the dawn of cool. ..Along with the smoking ban, students can also expect random locker searches conducted with drug-sniffing dogs, a process outlined in the district's draft policy on illegal drugs. If read about the unsolved murders of many teen in: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/d5tbj" target="_blank">Highway of Tears</a>, you wonder what right-minded BC citizen, in any opinion poll, isn't going to support directing police resources towards solving these murders, rather than fighting grow ops? Or "smoke-pits? The successful <a href="http://saferchoice.org" target="_blank">SAFER</a> campaign in Denver was partly based on this angle, and it is a good way for people to prioritize their own safety needs, rather than have them dictated by law enforcement. |
| Feb 17, 2005 |
CN BC:
Pot Party Looks For Candidates If the thought of legalizing marijuana is high on your list of priorities, consider becoming a Marijuana Party candidate in the May 17 B.C. election. |
| Feb 20, 2005 |
CN BC:
Medical User Needs Help! After years of struggle, Denny was finally granted his license just last week. He is only awaiting the official paperwork to come through. While Denny was in hospital, these gestapo agents proceeded to search Denny's home. Of course they found his grow room. Denny was between crops, and didn't have even so much as a clone. Yet Sgt. Stadenco and his Keystone cops, proceeded to tear down the room and seize all the gear. [This is how the police treat our sick family members] |