Current Affairs (2005) -
Activism (469 items)
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| Mar 23, 2005 |
PUB LTE: The Potent-pot Myth Both weak and strong marijuana will yield the desired result. Since potent marijuana requires significantly less smoke inhalation, it's actually less harmful. |
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| Mar 23, 2005 |
Stop Trying To Change The Laws Of Economics It's as it was with alcohol prohibition in the United States, which resulted not in an end to drinking, but the creation of Al Capone. |
| Mar 24, 2005 |
Editorial: Giving Up The Fight On Pot Not An Option News that British Columbia's indoor pot business is still flourishing is a message to some that it's time to give up the fight over marijuana grow operations. They claim it's a battle that can never be won; that simple surrender is the only option. That's a naive suggestion. [If people who can think logically and rationally are labeled "naive", than it is just as easy to label those who want to ramp up the war on a non-toxic plant, as morons] |
| Mar 24, 2005 |
CN BC:
Police Want Store Owners To Reveal Pot Information The City of Abbotsford wants businesses who sell hydroponics supplies and used goods - especially guns or equipment used in marijuana growing operations - to pass their customer information on to local police. [If trying to enforce a victimless law requires such extreme measures and relinquishing even more privacy and rights, then at some point, the tipping point will occur] |
| Mar 24, 2005 |
Survey Uncovers Educated Tokers VANCOUVER -- Marijuana users are more likely than non-users to be single, well-educated and earning a decent salary. Just 43 per cent of low-income earners had smoked cannabis, versus 55 per cent of high income earners. [Will the police include this data in their spins?] |
| Mar 25, 2005 |
Returning Pot Activist To US A Death Sentence he wife of medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby told Federal Court Justice Sandra Simpson that returning her husband to the U.S. to serve a prison term would be a death sentence. |
| Mar 25, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Money Wasted On Drug 'Prohibition' In your editorial, "It's about the money" ( Progress, March 18 ) you say that the legalization of marijuana is naive. I can't help but think that you have it backwards. It is time the prohibitionists were called to account for the abysmal mess drug use suppression has become. |
| Mar 26, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Debunking Myths If we are to deal effectively with the problems of drug abuse and addiction, we need education, regulation, treatment and enforcement -- certainly not propaganda, misinformation, prohibition and incarceration. |
| Mar 26, 2005 |
Headaches Fuel Revival Of Hallucinogenic Medicine Doctors Look At Magic Mushrooms And LSD As Possible Cures For A 'Terrible Affliction,' {Finally, some real advancements in the forbidden areas of medicine] |
| Mar 28, 2005 |
Hemp -- The New Soy Seeds Of Hemp Plant Promoted As Good Source Of Protein |
| Mar 30, 2005 |
The Heat Is On And while police still build their cases the old-fashioned way, they also rely on a little help from technology. It sounds a little sci-fi and comes with its own controversy, but the Saanich police department's thermal imager helps turn hunches into search warrants. [More rights gone to make tracking victimless "crime" easier.... a theme that we see repeating over and over ] |
| Apr 1, 2005 |
CN NS:
Man Wants Company To Help Him Pay For Pot So as part of his claim for special damages, Mr. Patriquen wants the defendants to pay for the costs of growing his own marijuana for medical use, as authorized under a Health Canada permit. |
| Apr 1, 2005 |
CN BC:
Marijuana Found In 19 Units Of Complex Marijuana-growing operations have been found in 19 housing units in the 90-unit Cranberry Lanes townhouse complex in east Richmond, prompting several residents to say they're considering a move to a safer neighbourhood. |
| Apr 1, 2005 |
CN ON:
Pot Activists Sound Off At Meeting A town hall meeting about illegal marijuana grow ops in Scarborough grew heated last night when activists supporting the legalization of cannabis challenged the information being presented by a parade of local politicians and police. |
| Apr 1, 2005 |
Think Before Un-inviting A Guest By yanking Emery from the invitation list, Warawa has created greater flak than if he had just let Emery come and debate. The new MP said he didn't want the situation to become politicized. Well, it's Canada and it's pot. There is little that is more political, more of a hot-button issue, than that. |
| Apr 2, 2005 |
It's Time For Intelligent Responses To Marijuana It is difficult to imagine a less intelligent strategy for responding to drugs than the laws that are currently in place. They reward organized crime, endanger the lives of police and citizens, corrupt legitimate businesses by encouraging money laundering, provide the major source of corruption among our police, and create a heavy burden on our justice system. |
| Apr 5, 2005 |
CN ON:
Judge Throws Out $500,000 Grow-Op Case WHITBY, ONT. - A judge has thrown out all charges in a $500,000 marijuana grow-op seizure because of serious charter violations by police who killed two dogs at a home in Pickering, Ont. [Every once in awhile, justice previals just enough to give us some hope] |
| Apr 6, 2005 |
Reefer Refugees No American Has Ever Been Granted Canadian Refugee Status Because of the War on Drugs, but the Times They May Be Changing. |
| Apr 7, 2005 |
And Marijuana For All By Alan Young. I am becoming embarrassed by the endless pot debate in Canada. Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan recently stated that marijuana smokers are stupid ( Was this her way of saying she smokes the herb? ), but the true imbecility lies in the irresolute and confused response of our governemt to a no-brainer issue of public policy. |
| Apr 8, 2005 |
Marijuana-joint Sharing Linked To Spread Of Potentially The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is warning people not to share marijuana joints because the practice is resulting in the spread of meningococcal disease, which is potentially fatal. |