Current Affairs (2005) -
Letters (469 items)
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| May 10, 2005 |
Pot Party's Participation Called 'Inappropriate' Student voters at Kwalikum Secondary in Qualicum Beach didn't hear a particular voice at yesterday's school forum. That's because Marijuana party candidate Michael Mann was not invited. KSS principal Darryl Craig called Mann's participation inappropriate. [Students learn a lot about so-called democracy..] |
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| May 10, 2005 |
City Wants Info On Who's Using Hydroponics An Abbotsford city council resolution asking the province to force retailers to give police data on customers who buy hydroponic growing equipment, goes to the Lower Mainland Municipal Association this week. [You are a suspect if you do buy anthing from grow equipment to cold medicine...mandatory ID for any purchase is next..] |
| May 10, 2005 |
Prohibition As part of our ongoing election coverage, the Langley Advance News is providing free space for local provincial candidates to clarify their views on issues facing Langley voters. Chris Scrimes Marijuana Party Prohibition It is time to end Ottawa's failed criminal prohibition and, instead, to allow the province to regulate and tax the marijuana industry. |
| May 11, 2005 |
Abduction Linked To Pot Smuggling Police believe the May 2 kidnapping is related to shipping of marijuana to the U.S., said Abbotsford police Const. Shinder Kirk "We have seen over the past several years that the drug trade is extremely lucrative, that organized groups, or even unorganized groups, will do anything to protect their trade from competitors," Kirk said. "And marijuana is no exception." [They forget to mention how prohibition-related crime like this could be avoided...] |
| May 12, 2005 |
Who's Your Puff Mama? Puff Mama's sunday-night ganja and grub revue headlined by Global Marijuana March MC Watermelon would have impressed Jay Gatsby himself. A warm-hearted med-cannabis baker, Puff Mama - who refuses to use her other name - throws grass-infused, in-the-know fundraisers featuring her delectable edibles and Wayward Comedy Show. |
| May 12, 2005 |
Crown Right Not To Charge Cops Who Tasered Teen: Prof Fryingpan was 16 years old and passed out drunk in the back of a car in the parking lot of a north-end townhouse project on Oct. 5, 2002 when police were called. The teen was shocked six times in 66 seconds by Const. Mike Wasylyshen, the son of then-chief Bob Wasylyshen. [To serve and protect... the police are our friends...] |
| May 13, 2005 |
Cops Hurt In Drug Raid Two Toronto cops are in hospital suffering from broken bones after they tried to arrest a group of men in an alleged high-rise crackhouse. [This is why they prefer to stick to busting pot growers...] |
| May 14, 2005 |
Tenants' RightsGroup Worries Grow-Op Bylaw Could Be Abused [When there is one set of rules for home owners and another for home renters, the divide between the haves and have nots widens and deepens] |
| May 14, 2005 |
Pro-Pot Party Takes School Board, City To Court The party went to B.C. Supreme Court Friday, saying officials of the Surrey school board and the City of Abbotsford have infringed on the rights of its candidates by ripping down the party's signs and banning its standard-bearers from all-candidates meetings. |
| May 15, 2005 |
LTE: Pothead Advice Not Needed Rather than speak of the virtues of cannabis for the victims of, say, glaucoma or chemotherapy nausea, he chooses to promote the recreational and irresponsible use of this stuff. Mr. Paden is pictured puffing on a huge spliff and quoted as saying "I've been smoking this for probably close to an hour" and "I can't walk anymore." [Hmmm, we don't think twice when a drunk says that..] |
| May 16, 2005 |
Advocate For Pot Arrested A Windsor man who says he grows marijuana for the sick and dying has been busted on drug charges. Fred Pritchard, 37, a self-styled marijuana legalization advocate who goes by the moniker Daweedking, is facing charges of marijuana production and trafficking. [Busting compassion clubs means shutting down the competition to the governments med pot program.. not how capitalism is supposed to work..] |
| May 17, 2005 |
Police Must Reinstate Drug-Addicted Officer A drug-addicted Toronto police officer is being allowed to keep his job. Mr. Kelly, an undercover drug squad officer with an otherwise perfect record, was fired last fall after becoming addicted to cocaine. [If only all coke addicts were so lucky] |
| May 18, 2005 |
US:
Spy vs. Spy United States - Proposed legislation would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, forcing all Americans to become foot soldiers in the war on drugs. Failure to do so would be a crime punishable by a mandatory minimum two-year prison sentence, and a maximum sentence of 10 years. [If Canadians do not stand up now, this is a glimpse of where we are heading] |
| May 20, 2005 |
CN BC:
Hydroponics Bylaw Gets Regional Support Three Abbotsford resolutions, including one that could force hydroponics retailers to keep records on customers who may be growing marijuana, were accepted at last week's Lower Mainland Municipal Association general meeting. [At what point will people resent their rights and privacy being eroded in order to keep a single plant illegal] |
| May 22, 2005 |
Angel Linked To Grow-Op A Kelowna-area marijuana grow-op bust provides one of the strongest links yet between the Hells Angels and the illegal pot industry, police say. [It's not so obvious that this article is not about the angels that watch over home cannabis gardens, but it soon beciomes apparent that it is just more propaganda from the boys in blue] |
| May 24, 2005 |
CN BC:
Marijuana Party Sues Over Freedom Of Speech The B.C. Marijuana Party is suing the Surrey School Board and the City of Abbotsford for targeting the party and its candidates' freedom of speech during the provincial election campaign. [What is most alarming is the diminishing democracy in so-called free countries] |
| May 24, 2005 |
Mary Jane And Me TV shows where people are smoking marijuana are entertaining for some, but offending to those who say they promote drug use. ..."[The shows are] just reflecting a consensus reality that has emerged over the last 40 or 50 years in North America, that says the use of marijuana is not a serious problem and the worst thing about marijuana are the laws against it," he said. |
| May 24, 2005 |
A Family Affair - Up In Smoke Ken Francis, a lab demonstrator in Langara's photo imaging department and a father of two, said it's irresponsible for parents to smoke pot with their kids. ...But, Corinne Logan, a youth alcohol and drug counselor at Vancouver Coastal Health Addiction Services thinks it's better if kids smoke dope with their parents rather than on the streets, even though she isn't an advocate of parents getting high with their kids. |
| May 24, 2005 |
Skier Tokes Prior To Hitting Slopes While most students in the cafeteria are studying for final exams, James Hillier is figuring out his travel budget for an upcoming skiing competition in the USA. This Langara student specializes in half pipe and skis slope style but Hillier almost always competes under the influence of marijuana. |
| May 25, 2005 |
CN ON:
Addiction Worker Warns Abuse Is Deadly Ongoing use of marijuana will lead to diseases of the lung such as you get with tobacco because of the high nicotine and THC," said Medulun. (Hotel Dieu Hospital's director of addiction, autism and developmental services) [So according to this addiction "expert", cannabis has nicotine... the proliferation of junk science and fantasy facts makes it is harder to find the truth about any drug, remedy or treatment.] |