Current Affairs (2005) -
Consequences (469 items)
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| Aug 19, 2005 |
PUB LTE: I Am A Canadian I have learned that alcohol does more harm in our society than pot. Pot is actually helpful as a medical aid to many people. Booze is not. I am not a Canerican. |
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| Aug 20, 2005 |
Hydroponic Store Owners Should Help Us If indoor growing supply shops tracked customer purchases and informed police of suspicious buys, it would make stopping large-scale marijuana operations easier...But....."A lot of our customers are vegetable growers concerned about pesticides and preservatives and those that want to grow their own vegetables year-round," [The lengths the police must go to continue this war on consensual "crime" is nothing short of mind boggling] |
| Aug 21, 2005 |
Hemp Crop A Field Of Dreams For B.C. Clothing Company Hemptown Clothing Inc. of Vancouver and the National Research Council are entering the second year of a three-year collaboration on a new enzyme technology for processing hemp fibre. [The fledgling hemp industry will become more substantial when the reality of peak oil sets in] |
| Aug 21, 2005 |
Cross-Border Policing Poses Sovereignty Risk, Canadian VANCOUVER -- The U.S. attorney prosecuting three Canadians suspected of digging a tunnel with the purpose of moving drugs across the border will ask a Seattle judge next week to seize the Fraser Valley property on which the tunnel was constructed. [Soveriegnty is a national illusion for any country if the U.S. deems it so ] |
| Aug 22, 2005 |
Marijuana Mayhem Ont - Three people face charges after a scuffle with police at Hamilton's marijuana cafe. |
| Aug 22, 2005 |
CN ON:
Up in Smoke: Pot Users Blaze A Trail Hamilton - City Hall was the scene of a marijuana smoke out over the weekend as 300 users lit up to celebrate Canabian Day. |
| Aug 23, 2005 |
No Place For Texas Rangers Increasing Presence Of American Agents Is Making A Mockery Of Canadian Values |
| Aug 24, 2005 |
Pot Issue The 'Perfect Storm' The Marc Emery case, in which Canada appears complicit with the United States in bringing to "justice" Vancouver's most prominent potrepreneur, may bring this still-peripheral issue to the front burner of Canadian politics. |
| Aug 24, 2005 |
Convicted In Pot Case, Man Loses His Home To Crown VANCOUVER -- A homeowner who pleaded guilty to growing marijuana in his house has become the first person in British Columbia to see his home forcibly taken by the federal government. ...Mr. Luu's lawyer, Jay Solomon, argued in Surrey Provincial Court that seizure of the house was an inordinate sanction relative to the offence. [This story is scary for several reasons, but mainly for what it doesn't say... how many plants does it take to lose your home? 5? 10? 300?] |
| Aug 26, 2005 |
Hemp Oil Producer Plans Public Meeting MACCAN - Rick Simpson is anxious to have his medical marijuana activities judged in the court of public opinion. The hemp oil producer who faces criminal charges is holding a public meeting Saturday at 2 p.m. in the community hall at the Royal Canadian Legion here in this small Cumberland County community, just outside Amherst. "I'm going to tell the public exactly what I did and I want them to judge me," Mr. Simpson said this week. |
| Aug 26, 2005 |
Police Didn't Violate Pot Advocate's Rights - Judge A judge yesterday threw out arguments that police violated the constitutional rights of pro-marijuana advocate Marc-Boris St-Maurice when they joined the Bloc Pot party he founded and arrested him at the party's cafe. |
| Aug 26, 2005 |
Pot Crusader Says Canadians Will Be To Blame For Extradition Pot crusader Marc Emery said Thursday that all Canadians will be complicit if the United States succeeds in extraditing him to face drug charges in that country. |
| Aug 27, 2005 |
Pot Farms Flourish Massive outdoor marijuana grow-ops like the one busted near Oak Lake this week - the largest in the province's history - are sprouting up across Canada and there are likely more right here in Westman, says a police source. Indoor grow-ops in residential neighbourhoods - often upscale or suburban areas - have grabbed the media spotlight in recent years, but an Ontario-based investigator said police agencies nationwide are also starting to see a trend in large-scale outdoor pot farms. |
| Aug 29, 2005 |
Public Misinformed About Marijuana, Advocates Say FIELD, Ont -- Marijuana users and members of the Church of the Universe gathered Saturday to support Rev. Michel Ethier |
| Aug 30, 2005 |
New Medicinal Marijuana Rules Ease Onus On Physicians Revised regulations governing Health Canada's medicinal marijuana program reduce the onus on physicians as gatekeepers, but the 4-year-old program is still cause for concern, says the CMA. [ Forms for Medical Marijuana available at:</B> <A HREF="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/marihuana/index_e.html" target="_blank">Marihuana Medical Access Division</a>] |
| Aug 30, 2005 |
CN BC:
Judge Sets Aside Bail Conditions For The Sake Of Love Flashing a thumbs up from the prisoner's dock to a handful of supporters, Briere was ecstatic at the ruling that will allow him to run for Vancouver city council in November and paves the way for him to see his lover Carol Gwilt, who also faces drug and money-laundering charges for her role at the Commercial Drive cafe. |
| Sep 1, 2005 |
Ontario Hemp Industry Ready For Growth Rising Oil Costs Make Natural Product Viable Alternative [Think of all the trees world-wide that would probably still be standing if we had been using hemp all along.. just another crime against humanity..] |
| Sep 3, 2005 |
War On Grow-Ops A Losing Battle Even if Kelowna RCMP could bust a grow-op a day, they would never catch up with the amount of marijuana being cultivated here..."We'd never catch up with all of them. It's that prolific." Kelowna RCMP average about two grow busts a week [Yet it goes on and on and on.... just like the definition of insanity...] |
| Sep 6, 2005 |
Toking And Driving A Lethal Combination Drug impairment is as dangerous as if you're drinking alcohol." That's the back-to-school message from MADD Canada. [Most of the </medical/index.htm#meddrivingstudies">driving studies</a> say otherwise] |
| Sep 7, 2005 |
Marijuana Trafficking Charges Stayed TRURO, N.S. -- Trafficking charges were stayed yesterday against two men who say they smoke and supply marijuana for medicinal purposes. John Thomas Cook of Halifax and Stephen Edward Chute of Springhill, N.S., both 40, were each charged with possession of marijuana and possession for the purposes of trafficking. Mr. Cook runs the Halifax chapter of the Cannabis Buyers Clubs of Canada and supplies medicinal pot to about 50 clients. Mr. Cook and Mr. Chute don't deny that they shipped the drugs from Springhill to Halifax County. Crown attorney Cameron MacKinnon wouldn't comment on why the charges were stayed. [Perhaps the government knows it is on shaky legal ground and don't want to push their luck. Too bad] |