Current Affairs (2005) -
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| Sep 19, 2005 |
Dog Search Sends Signal Drugs and alcohol do not belong in a school setting. That's a great message to send to all students in Edson whether or not they attend Parkland Composite High School. Last Thursday's school search using an RCMP dog will hopefully hammer into students' minds that they shouldn't be messing with drugs. Otherwise, they are messing with their future. [Have they ever stopped to ask the students exactly what message is being hammered into thier heads with the heavy handed tactics? Didn't think so...] |
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| Sep 19, 2005 |
Pioneering Decriminalization But the point here is that I remember thinking how amazing it was that something so harmless as pot smoking would bring about such retribution. Growing up in Ontario, I watched the smog and suburban infiltration plow ahead unchecked, or in some cases, even encouraged. |
| Sep 22, 2005 |
CN ON:
Charge Withdrawn Against Local Marijuana Activist Rick Reimer said authorities withdrew a charge of being intoxicated in a public place during a court appearance last week in Annapolis Royal, N.S. Mr. Reimer, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, has a medical exemption from Health Canada to use marijuana to alleviate the symptoms of his disease. He was smoking a marijuana cigarette when he asked an RCMP officer to check in with security when entering the festival grounds. |
| Sep 23, 2005 |
A Green Light To Grow The legal avenues for growing pot legally in B.C. are more convoluted than a corn maze. People with licenses issued by Health Canada to use marijuana for its medicinal benefits not only deal with municipal bylaws and Health Canada regulations, but they have to surrender their personal information to police so they won't get busted. |
| Sep 24, 2005 |
CN BC:
Smith Beats Marijuana Cookie Rap Ted Smith, Victoria's high-profile champion of medical marijuana, has beaten a trafficking charge on appeal....On Thursday, Smith received a letter from the federal Department of Justice saying it had reviewed his appeal and decided he should be granted a new trial. The Crown, however, has determined it will not proceed and will ask the Court of Appeal to enter an acquittal. [There is something very wrong with society when baking cookies for ill people can land you in jail] |
| Sep 25, 2005 |
Cannabis: A Harmless Soft Drug? Increasingly potent and widely used, marijuana can wreak havoc on the lives of many people. While certain effects are still not clearly understood and vary from one individual to the next, the risks connected to marijuana consumption are, nonetheless, very real. [The risk of being arrested is by far the worse effect of cannabis] |
| Sep 26, 2005 |
CN AB:
Activist Wants Pot Charges Dropped Max Cornelssen, 63, will be in Court of Queen's Bench, Edmonton, on Oct. 13 to demand the charges against him - cultivation and possession with intent to distribute - be dropped, because Parliament has not re-enacted a section of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act that prohibits people from growing ganja. [Technically, cannabis is legal in Canada, yet this is ignored and the persecution that still goes on day in and day out until it is acknowledged by a court - but that's where politics and corruption come in] |
| Sep 27, 2005 |
Families Of Slain Mounties Seek Harder Drug Law The family members, still scarred by the shooting deaths of the officers by a violent outcast near Mayerthorpe, Alta., called on the government to scrap the marijuana bill and introduce mandatory minimum jail sentences for those who grow cannabis on a commercial scale. [How unfortunate that the families of the slain Mounties would exploit their deaths to lobby for tougher sentences on cannabis and organized crime, particularly when the garden was incidental to the police being called in to assist in a car repossession. Instead, the families should be demanding an investigation into why the police brass chose to send the victims to assist at the residence of a "cop-hater" without appropriate precautions which could have possibly spared their lives, especially when full-geared SWAT teams are sent in to take down an individual tending a few plants. That is the real issue that gets clouded over in the rush to further demonize cannabis. It is also unfortunate that many professions have much higher on-the-job fatalities than police work, yet this is never acknowledged. See: <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v05/n1545/a07.html">Pot & Murder</a>] |
| Sep 27, 2005 |
CN NS:
Pot Accused Seeks Jury Trial A Maccan man who says he was growing marijuana to help himself and 300 others with medical conditions including cancer has asked to be tried in Nova Scotia Supreme Court on three charges stemming from a police raid on his property last month that netted more than 1,200 marijuana plants. |
| Sep 29, 2005 |
City Hiring More Police City council has approved the hiring of two police officers under a provincial officer partnership program. The two officers will tackle the issues of youth and organized crime, marijuana grow-ops and methamphetamine labs. [More jobs for cops... isn't that what prohibition is all about and why they lobby so intensely for it?] |
| Sep 30, 2005 |
Canadian to File Charges Against Marijuana Activist VANCOUVER - A private citizen says he's filing charges Friday against marijuana activist Marc Emery and two of his associates, partly because that will throw a wrench into the United States' plans to extradite the trio to face drug charges in that country. |
| Oct 1, 2005 |
Mounties avoiding oversight, complaints commissioner says The head of the RCMP complaints commission says the Mounties are hiding behind the cloak of national security to keep her from investigating allegations of a late-night raid at a private residence that resulted in no charges but thoroughly traumatized a family....The Mounties resist civilian oversight because they have an "us-against-them mentality," says Ms. Heafey, who will retire from the commission later this month after seven years. [The longer the RCMP are allowed to continue in this manner, the worse the policing situation will become] |
| Oct 4, 2005 |
Marijuana Refugee Faces Deportation Steven Tuck, one of a number of high-profile American medical marijuana refugees, is hoping an 11th-hour appeal to the Federal Court will halt his Immigration Canada-ordered return to the U.S. [Oct. 8, UPDATE: Steve has been seized from a hospital bed in B.C. and taken to a US jail in Washington. See: <a href="http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=856" target="_blank">Marijuana News</a> |
| Oct 6, 2005 |
Marijuana Effective Against Morning Sickness: Study While women are traditionally told to avoid drugs and alcohol during pregnancy, one researcher from each of the Vancouver Island and B.C. Compassion Societies and the University of B.C. and the University of Victoria looked to see if pregnant therapeutic users of medical marijuana reported relief from their nausea and vomiting. The researchers found that 92 per cent of the women surveyed rated pot's effect on morning-sickness symptoms as either "very effective" or "effective." |
| Oct 6, 2005 |
Marijuana and Youth Culture Ground-breaking study looks at teenage attitudes By Hilary Thomson Is it therapeutic, harmless or addictive? Adult opinions about marijuana vary widely, but what do teenagers think about using marijuana and how do their perceptions influence their use? That?s what Nursing Prof. Joy Johnson wants to find out in a three-year study that begins this month.... |
| Oct 6, 2005 |
Kid Cannabis How a Chubby Pizza-Delivery Boy From Idaho Became a Drug Kingpin:<br> Nate Norman was hanging out with his buddy Topher Clark when he came up with The Idea. The two friends were sitting around Nate's house, a dumpy little place near the cemetery, and both of them were extremely stoned. And yet The Idea had more legs than your typical pot-inspired idea. It did not involve a second Twinkie inside the first one. It did not involve genetically modifying the bugs so their blood would not be blood but windshield-wiper fluid. It was, in fact, based on a practical application of global economic theory. That, and cheap weed in Canada. [ Many enterprising kids realize they can make far more money selling pot than be expoited at McJobs. Eventually the pot sellers buy the business and hire the pot buyers to work for them... it's all spelled it in <a href'="http://www.narconews.com/narcodollars1.html" target="_blank">Narco-Dollars for Beginners</a> A MUST READ ] |
| Oct 7, 2005 |
US Activist Taken from Vancouver ER In Handcuffs to US Border. Shortly after 2PM this afternoon, I witnessed something that will bring shame to Canada. Steve Tuck was taken in handcuffs by Canadian Border Services Enforcement officers out of his emergency room bed and driven to the US border. |
| Oct 7, 2005 |
Officer To Stand Trial On Drug Charges A police officer facing numerous charges spanning several years and jurisdictions will stand trial on local charges next week, a judge has ruled, despite a bid from the crown for more time to scrutinize new information brought forth by the defence. Ned Maodus, 41, a former resident of Mono, is a senior drug investigator with Metro Toronto Police who, along with five other officers, faces drug related charges and allegations of wrongdoing. |
| Oct 12, 2005 |
CN BC:
City Targets Hydroponic Sales Gaetz said it is not possible to prohibit the sale of hydroponic equipment, particularly as the items can be used for legitimate agricultural purposes, such as growing tomatoes. Rather the plan would be to regulate the sales by calling for information from the purchaser such as who they are and what they intend to use the product. [The desperate war on pot will keep going to any extreme for it's continuance] |
| Oct 12, 2005 |
CN BC:
Pilot Pot Project Will Be Permanent By '06 A pilot program that hits marijuana growers in the pocketbook will become permanent by 2006 in Abbotsford. ...The project was based on local government's jurisdiction through the Community Charter, the Fire Services Act, the B.C. Building Code and the Controlled Substance Bylaw to inspect homes that may pose a threat to public safety. |