Current Affairs (2005) -
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| Oct 12, 2005 |
Grow Ops Are Dangerous, Police Say Because of the potential dangers involved in dismantling a marijuana grow operation the OPP have changed how they deal with them. In earlier years he said they went in quickly and dismantled the operation quickly but that often left the officers exposed to a number of potentially dangerous situations and to the possibility of developing long-term health problems because of their exposure to chemicals and mold. Today the officer explained they don't rush into grow operations and when they do go in they wear protective clothing and a ventilator masks. They also wear boots that protect them from electrical shocks. [Perhaps the public was associating cannabis growing to harmless plant/flower growing, whereas the police want to associate pot growing/meth lab dangers. The propagnada machine runs in high gear] |
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| Oct 13, 2005 |
Man Sent Back To The U.S. With Catheter Still Attached A U.S. army veteran who fled to Canada to avoid prosecution because he grew marijuana to help control chronic pain was yanked from a hospital by Canadian authorities and, with a catheter still attached, turned over to U.S. officials who provided him with no medical treatment for five days, his lawyer said. |
| Oct 13, 2005 |
Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth According to the study in rats, a super-potent synthetic version of the cannabinoid compound found in marijuana can reduce depression and anxiety when taken over an extended period of time. ...."I think most people with clinical expertise in the area of palliative medicine know that if patients had access to all the tools we currently have, we could certainly do a whole lot better to help people live with multiple chronic diseases," he added. "The social policies are way behind our technology, and that's where we need some catching up." [For every beneficial study such as this, 5 more junk science claiming psychosis are trotted out, but our collective experience of cannabis precedes the scientific knowledge ] |
| Oct 13, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Hemp Will Solve Oil Woes If people would just Google the words "industrial hemp," they'd find that there is a simple answer to all of our energy and gasoline problems. We don't need prime land to grow hemp. It will grow big on even marginal soil. It's really quite simple. Russell Barth |
| Oct 13, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Health Canada's Price For Medical Pot Absurd Health Canada states on its website that this inferior weed is to be sold at a set price of $5 per gram, or around $150 an ounce. This is ridiculous, as the production cost for marijuana can run as low as one to four cents per gram, depending on the growing method. |
| Oct 15, 2005 |
CN BC:
Marijuana Activist Sentenced To One Day In Jail After Marijuana activist Ted Smith was sentenced to one day in jail Friday, the lowest allowable sentence on his particular drug conviction for cannabis cookies. [Where are the sanity checks when someone can be convicted for giving away cookies made with a substance less toxic than the other cookie ingredients? ] |
| Oct 15, 2005 |
CN BC:
Time To 'Declare Peace In War On Drugs' He's run for political office more times than a family of 10 runs a bath, and fans of Tim Felger will be pleased to hear he is not slowing down his efforts. In fact, rather than going for one position this municipal election, the pro-marijuana candidate is doubling his efforts by running for council in Abbotsford and for the vacant mayor's post in Mission. |
| Oct 18, 2005 |
Health Officers Want Drug Law Changes B.C. public health officers are demanding the government decriminalize drug offences because the war on illicit substances is an abysmal failure. ...They say the laws are based on racism and cultural biases, not evidence of harm, and that the prohibition causes far more damage to health and to society. LINK: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/bz4s4" "_blank">A Public Health Approach to Drug Control in Canada</a> (PDF, 38 pgs - 238K) |
| Oct 18, 2005 |
Pot Less of a Cancer Risk Than Tobacco, Study Suggests Marijuana smokers are less likely to contract cancer than cigarette smokers, new research suggests. While cannabis and tobacco smoke are chemically similar, the key difference is that cigarettes contain nicotine, which appears to bolster the cancer-causing properties of tobacco, while cannabis contains tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC, the active ingredient in pot ), which may actually reduce the carcinogenic properties of some chemicals. [Thousands and thousands of dollars are spent to confirm what thousands and thousands of years of anedoctal evidence tells us - politics is the only reason this plant was ever illegal] |
| Oct 19, 2005 |
For A Saner Drug Policy The authors review the spectrum of control over psychoactive drugs, a category that includes alcohol, tobacco, prescription painkillers and illegal drugs. At one end, society widely tolerates and even promotes drinking alcohol while placing tighter controls on smoking. At the other, it makes the manufacture, sale and possession of marijuana, cocaine and heroin illegal, driving them underground and fuelling crime. Both the legal drinking and smoking and the illegal snorting and injecting come with a huge social cost. The illegal drugs do less overall damage because they are not as widely used, but they inflict more damage on the individuals who use them. [Intelligent discussion is permitted here and there as long as it is never replaces the propaganda mill run by the police and media] |
| Oct 19, 2005 |
Pot-Prescribing Doctors Warned The organization that provides malpractice insurance to Canadian physicians is telling doctors they should not prescribe medical marijuana unless patients sign a release-of-liability waiver [People have been using cannabis for thousands & thousands of years without one death, yet these over-the-top hypocritical bureaucrats choose this herb to propagandize.] |
| Oct 20, 2005 |
Cotler's State Of Insecurity Civil rights the Federal Minister of Justice, Irwin Cotler, was well known as a human rights champion before entering public life. But there seems to be little room for champions of freedom in a government obsessed with security. ...The minister had one opportunity to strike a blow for freedom with the proposal to decriminalize marijuana, but the promise to liberate millions of Canadian pot-smokers from the clutches of the criminal law became too controversial for a government preoccupied with building a Great Wall of surveillance to keep tabs on subversives, terrorists and home-grown criminals. |
| Oct 20, 2005 |
Immigrants' Plight Concerns Chinese Community In City MEMBERS of Winnipeg's Chinese community say they're concerned about immigrants who were packed into a rural Manitoba farmhouse and accused of doing the "grunt" work in Manitoba's largest-ever marijuana grow operation. |
| Oct 22, 2005 |
Mountie Lied, Judge Says, Throwing Out Drug Case Ruling that an RCMP officer blatantly lied to try to salvage the crumbling credibility of an undercover informant, a judge yesterday tossed out three drug conspiracy charges against a Montreal criminal lawyer, bringing an abrupt end to his trial. [The snitch society we must endure to police victimless crime will always lead to corruption... mostly left uncovered..] |
| Oct 22, 2005 |
Beating the Drug Police Just three months after selling his first bag of fake pee from Herbal Essentials, store owner Kelly Hermansen is moving between 35 and 50 units a week of it, along with other drug-masking products. Although most customers are marijuana smokers, a drug that can stay in the system up to a month, other shoppers are meth and cocaine users, Hermansen says. [Cat & mouse, cops & robbers, the war on some substances goes on and on and on] |
| Oct 22, 2005 |
Legal But Unjust MANITOBA should be embarrassed that a provincial court judge was pressed this week into personally making phone calls to find legal counsel for Chinese immigrants charged in connection with a marijuana grow operation. She then had to deny bail to most of the 28 accused, found sleeping in a tiny house next to the rural pot farm. All but one cannot speak English and they have no criminal records. They are in custody largely because they are poor and they have no local address. [Every day we are reminded about how broken the system is, yet it perpuates unabated... imagine some of the headlines in a few years if we stay the course...] |
| Oct 23, 2005 |
CN AB:
Minister Spearheads Child Seizure Law Exposing children to illegal drug activity is child abuse, Alberta's children's services minister says, and proposed legislation allowing the apprehension of children in grow ops or other drug houses will make that clear. "It's an addition to the toolbox," Heather Forsyth said Friday. [How much uglier can the war on pot get? What about the kids growing up in violent alcoholic homes? When will they get a break?] |
| Oct 23, 2005 |
Mould-Busting Biz Grows Fast If the police crackdown on marijuana grow operations continues at the current clip, demolition man Victoire Wozny is going to have a hard time keeping up. Wozny, owner of a demolition and construction firm called "Slic Vic," specializes in gutting and rebuilding homes that have been all but destroyed by the grow operations they've housed. [Of course this kind of business wouldn't exist if people could grow thier own pot safely, but why let logic get in the way of a good drug war?] |
| Oct 24, 2005 |
Most Canadians Would Vote For Pot Smoker Poll The Leger Marketing survey conducted Sept. 13-16 found that only 26 per cent of Canadians would have refuse to vote for a politician who had smoked marijuana. [Typical of Canadians, eh?] |
| Oct 24, 2005 |
Harmless? Never! More than 2,000 Canadians go to jail annually for simple possession of marijuana and some segments of society believe this is a useless waste of public funds and police resources....The drug has become more potent and dangerous than it was a generation ago. It is damaging. [Good ol' Texas North...dissing a herb that has no fatalities in it's thousands of years of use...] |