Current Affairs (2005) -
Consequences (469 items)
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| Jun 14, 2005 |
Medical Marijuana Sub-Standard, Patients Say "What we see is a massive level of distrust with the entire program," says Philippe Lucas of Canadians for Safe Access, an advocacy group for users of medical marijuana. "If they are going to offer it to me, why not offer it so it can work for me, and offer it properly" says Reardon. "Put it in the hands of the master growers - people who do this for a living." |
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| Jul 24, 2005 |
Drug Tunnel - Sources Says Conduit Not Just For Pot Three Surrey men who allegedly spent more than a year digging a drug tunnel under the border to the U.S. planned to use it for smuggling ecstacy as well as marijuana, American authorities say. [Tunnels have been around since alcohol prohibition] |
| Jul 25, 2005 |
CN ON:
Growing Season Is Here Last year, police seized 104,000 plants across the province and charged 37 people. That number is up significantly from the previous two years, when police seized 78,000 plants in 2003 and 56,000 plants in 2002. In 2000, 89,000 marijuana plants were seized by police and 41 people were charged. |
| Jul 26, 2005 |
'Football Fields' Of Pot Discovered Police in Northern Ontario have charged a Toronto man after they found marijuana fields stretching "three football fields in length" in what is considered to be one of Canada's largest pot busts. |
| Jul 27, 2005 |
CN BC:
Compassion Society Defends Sooke Grow-Op In Court Philippe Lucas, head of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society, will be in at the Western Communities court house tomorrow and Friday for a preliminary trial into a RCMP raid on the compassion society's grow-op in Sooke. [This facility was involved in several research projects and supplies cannabis - much more than the government is doing, without costing taxpayer's a cent. Close the competition down seems to be government strategy] |
| Jul 27, 2005 |
Beleaguered Drug Cop Sued Again $2.4-Million Suit For Assault. Six Colleagues In Squad Charged With 40-Corruption Related Offences |
| Jul 28, 2005 |
Scrap Canada's Capricious Marijuana Laws In a ruling that highlights the legal inequities of the federal marijuana prohibition, the highest court in the province has struck down a two-year prison sentence that was part of a plea bargain with a man caught growing dope in Saskatchewan. |
| Jul 29, 2005 |
BCMP Headquarters Raided ordered by U.S. - Emery & others arrested Police raided a marijuana seed store run by the B.C. Marijuana Party leader in Vancouver Friday, apparently at the request of U.S. authorities in Seattle. At a news conference in Seattle, U.S. authorities announced they've asked for Emery to be extradited to the U.S. to face drug charges. [ Any illusion that Canada is a sovereign nation is now dead and gone] |
| Aug 5, 2005 |
Marc Emery out on bail B.C. Marijuana Party leader Marc Emery has been released from the pre-trial centre in Port Coquitlam after posting $50,000 bail. <h3>Marc Emery, Michelle Rainey, Greg William INFORMATION</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://cannabisculture.com/" target="_blank">Cannabis Culture</a></li> <li><a href="http://bcmarijuanaparty.com/" target="_blank">BC Marijuana Party</a></li> <li><a href="http://pot.tv/" target="_blank">POT-TV</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.mapinc.org/find?196" target="_blank">MAP - Marc Emery</a></li> <li><a href="http://savemarcemery.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> Marc Emery is a Political Prisoner</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/Emery/petition.html" target="_blank">On-Line Petition</a></li> <li><a href="http://freemarc.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Free Marc Emery</a></li> <li><a href="http://norml.ca/" target="_blank">NORML Canada Press Release</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/seattle072905p.html" target="_blank">DEA Press Release</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.simonpole.ca/node/165U" target="_blank">Simon Pole Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.vivelecanada.ca/formletters/index.php/20050803165704598" target="_blank">Vive le Canada </a></li> <li><a href="http://cannabiscoalition.ca/html/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=35"> Add your favourite links or info about EmeryCo. here</a></li> </ul> |
| Aug 5, 2005 |
US WA:
<h3>DEA Chief admits politcal persecution in Emery seed case</h3> <strong>US WA: Column: Pursuit of Drug Case All Smoke, No Fire</strong><br> Seeking to stop his extradition to the United States -- where he faces charges of trafficking in marijuana seeds -- Emery's legal team could use Tandy's words to telling effect: Their client is being prosecuted for his beliefs. "Today's arrest of Mark ( sic ) Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement." "Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on." [Targeting citizens for their political views and trying to silence them is against the rules.... but when has that ever mattered? Will the government of Canada do the right thing? Not something we could ever count on.] |
| Aug 9, 2005 |
They're High On Hemp Hemp people can be like religious zealots, going on and on about the benefits of "the world's strongest natural fibre." ...All sorts of mainstream companies are jumping on the hemp bandwagon. |
| Aug 10, 2005 |
Officer Pleads Guilty A police officer, who coordinated a program to wipe out marijuana outdoor grow operations, fed information about the location of the crops to two men so that they could harvest the pot before police raids, a court has heard. |
| Aug 11, 2005 |
Pot Party Seeks Local Grassroots The Marijuana Party says it plans to put down roots in central Canada once it gets approval to organize a riding association in Windsor -- the party's first Electoral District Association ( EDA ) south of Nunavut. |
| Aug 12, 2005 |
Canada Goes To Pot Emery was jailed in Saskatchewan for passing a joint. In Saskatoon they call that "trafficking." On the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, they call it "Saturday." |
| Aug 13, 2005 |
Legalize Pot, Focus Sights On Crystal Meth The arguments for legalizing pot to better fight hard drugs are so strong that Ottawa's failure to move in that direction seems to be due to outside pressure. <strong>Either it's organized crime, hoping to keep pot illegal to keep profits flowing, or it's police agencies -- domestic or American -- nervous that their budgets will be slashed if this bogeyman is removed. </strong> [Only police and organized crime support prohibition, yet that seems to be all it takes] |
| Aug 13, 2005 |
This Johnny Appleseed Is Wanted by the Law New York Times: - FRESHLY released on bail, Marc Emery faced the camera of his Pot-TV.net Web site the other day to make an urgent appeal for money to finance his legal struggle to avert extradition to the United States for trafficking marijuana seeds south of the border |
| Aug 16, 2005 |
Judge Slams US Drug War The United States' war on drugs is based around hypocrisy, ignorance and greed, says a Californian judge who was in Vancouver yesterday at the Canadian Bar Association's annual legal conference. "We couldn't do it worse if we tried" |
| Aug 16, 2005 |
Emery Says Seed Clients Being Set Up B.C. pot activist and former Londoner Marc Emery yesterday warned his marijuana seed customers their orders may have been intercepted by U.S. justice officials. |
| Aug 18, 2005 |
Senior Sentenced For Tobacco, Pot A southern Alberta man was fined $20,000 Wednesday for illegally manufacturing tobacco in the largest operation of its kind in Western Canada.....was also sentenced to 90 days in jail for producing marijuana [Where corporate control and prohibition meet] |
| Aug 18, 2005 |
Irrationality In Canada's Drug Policy Eugene Oscapella is an Ottawa Lawyer who teaches drug policy in the department of criminology at the University of Ottawa. He is also founding member of an independent, not for profit research group and think tank called the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy. He was able to share his thoughts on Canada's cannabis laws. |