Current Affairs (2005) -
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| Feb 21, 2005 |
CN NK:
Pot caf? owner found guilty of trafficking SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The owner of the Cannabis Caf? in Saint John has been found guilty of drug trafficking, after a judge rejected the defence that she was running a compassion club. |
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| Feb 22, 2005 |
Motion Calls For Taxation Of Legal Marijuana OTTAWA -- Delegates to the Liberal party convention next month will debate a motion to legalize and tax marijuana sales, saying it would bring in billions in new tax revenue. |
| Feb 23, 2005 |
Police Too Quick To Bust Down Door A husband and wife have been acquitted of growing marijuana after an RCMP officer failed to give them enough time to answer their door before he smashed it down with a battering ram. |
| Feb 23, 2005 |
Canada, U.S. 'Never More Different' McKenna made a spirited defence of Canadian independence in matters such as marijuana, which many American legislators have sharply criticized. |
| Feb 24, 2005 |
Tax Relief Goes To Pot OTTAWA - Canadians will get tax relief to buy marijuana, gold and jewellery and for world travel under yesterday's proposed federal budget. |
| Feb 25, 2005 |
It's Time for Canada to Legalize Cannabis Most arguments against cannabis legalization are moralistic, whereas the arguments in favour are pragmatic and would help to protect minors, users, and society. The time has come to legalize cannabis. [Straightforward and to the point. Hooray!] |
| Feb 25, 2005 |
CN AB:
Cops On Hook For Injuries During Raid Cops who cracked the ribs of a city man when they wrongly raided his home must pay him $20,000, Alberta's top court ruled yesterday. [What happened to the cop? He got a promotion...] |
| Feb 25, 2005 |
CN BC:
City Bylaw Pounding Pot Growers A new Chilliwack bylaw is muscling marijuana grow-ops out of residential neighbourhoods and hitting operators in the pocketbook - even before court convictions. Four hundred grow-ops were reported to police in Chilliwack last year, suggesting the real number could be more than 1,200. [Squeezing out the family gardens in favour of organized crime - good idea- NOT] |
| Feb 28, 2005 |
Canucks In Haze On Pot Canadians are confused about what the feds mean when they talk about the decriminalization of pot, a new poll shows. The poll of 1,000 Canadians was conducted between Jan, 28 and Feb. 2 by the polling firm SES for Tory MP Randy White. |
| Feb 28, 2005 |
Marijuana Party Head Joins Liberals The head of the Marijuana Canada party has resigned to join the Liberals. Marc-Boris St-Maurice, who led the party from its inception in 2000 until December of 2004, said he will make a formal announcement on Tuesday |
| Mar 3, 2005 |
CN AB:
CN AB: Four Mounties Shot Dead Gunman Kills Four Mounties: A Police Raid on an Alberta Marijuana Operation Goes Terribly Wrong, Shocking the National and Touching Off Calls for A Crackdown [( PROPAGANDA ALERT: All the headlines scream "Killed in grow op raid", though no plant numbers are given,,,, that is a first. <br><br> Regardless of the FACT that this incident was NOT related to a cannabis crop - the pot was successfully investigated the night before, the RCMP were there about the stolen cars but this will always be imbedded in the public mind as a grow op raid gone back. <br> More commentary: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070323232916/http://www.bcrevolution.ca/shooting_coverup.htm" target="_blank">Shooting coveup?</a> <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/hailofbullets/" target="_blank">Fifth Estate Documentary: Hail of Bullets</a>] |
| Mar 3, 2005 |
BC Supreme Court Wants More Proof Before Ruling on Validity of Pot Laws VANCOUVER -- Have the laws against marijuana fallen? That was the question before the BC Supreme Court today... the judge declined to give a Constitutional exemption from Canada?s unworkable medical cannabis access system without more proof that her rights had been violated. [ A very significant case winding it's way to the Supreme Court] |
| Mar 8, 2005 |
I Was Too Quick to Blame Deaths on Drugs, RCMP Chief Canada's top police officer,RCMP Commissioner Guiliano Zaccardelli, said yesterday that he was too quick to condemn a marijuana grow operation as the root cause in the deaths of four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers last week....it appears the murders were the work of a deranged man with a long criminal history and a grudge against police, and not that of a gangster protecting his cash crop. [Now the media, Anne McLellan, and Ralph Klein must admit their roles in what transpired as a huge public deception ] |
| Mar 9, 2005 |
CN ON:
Is Pot Plant Flag Causing A Problem? The controversial flag looks similar to Canada's national flag but where the red maple leaf should be there is instead the image of a marijuana plant. The flag has been displayed in the front window of Redfearn's adult shop Parties and Affairs for four years. "They are only now waking up to it? That cracks me up," she said. |
| Mar 9, 2005 |
Weed Funds Killers But after last week's horrific tragedy in Alberta, my first and initial reaction was that it was time for all of the recreational users out there who fuel the demand for this industry to take a good, hard look in the mirror and ask yourself this one question: Do you have blood on your hands? It takes a giant leap of logic to equate the killing of 4 Mounties with the habit of pot smokers, but one enterprising reporter manages to do that. |
| Mar 10, 2005 |
Devil's Advocate In a news story of this size and scope, the first casualty in the mainstream media is the truth....the mainstream media played their Orwellian word association game. Marijuana-Grow Operation-Four Cops Killed. We have seen this before. Muslim-Fundamentalist-Terrorist. Native-Reservation-Alcoholic. Male-Black-Criminal. Male-White-Racist. See? Pushing your political agenda through the media in the midst of the nation's grief is how you keep your job. It seems as if some politicians shed crocodile tears to further their agenda of cannabis prohibition. Some politicians would rather have Health Canada approve pharmaceuticals responsible for thousands of deaths every year, than tell the truth about the medicinal value of the cannabis plant. |
| Mar 11, 2005 |
Canada could be a world leader in smarter drug strategies For the past three days, we have examined how the federal government's prohibitionist approach to dealing with marijuana has utterly failed to reduce the supply of, or demand for, the drug. Cannabis use appears to be associated with cultural and social factors, rather than with the harshness of the laws or the degree of their enforcement. |
| Mar 11, 2005 |
CN BC:
Police Strategy Police in B.C. raid about 2,000 marijuana growing operations a year -- a rate of more than five a day. From 1997 to 2003, the percentage of raids that resulted in "no-case seizures" -- in which police seize plants but don't pursue charges against anyone -- jumped dramatically from 35 per cent of all raids to 64 per cent. [Sounds more like break and enter than law enforcement] |
| Mar 11, 2005 |
US Gets High, And Blames Canada WASHINGTON - The number of American teenagers and adults ending up in emergency wards or seeking treatment because of marijuana use has soared in recent years and seems linked to the "dramatically" growing influx of high-test Canadian pot, the White House drug czar said Thursday. The elevated THC content -- the active ingredient in pot -- of that Canadian marijuana means it can no longer be considered a soft drug, argued Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. [Not to mention they are given a choice between treatment or jail, and less than 2% of their pot comes from Canada and is too expensive for most consumers, so duh... they tried to float this one in Vancouver and both mayer Campbell and ex-mayor Owen dismissed it as propaganda - lets hope the nation can keep that perspective] |
| Mar 12, 2005 |
Grow-Op Penalties Will Rise - Toews OTTAWA - Growing support among MPs of different political stripes for tough mandatory minimum sentences to deter marijuana grow operations usually run by organized gangs could lead to amendments to the Liberals' marijuana bill, Conservative justice critic Vic Toews predicted. [You would think it would be impossible to pass a mandatory minimum law for something like gardening a plant in this day and age, but we should know better than to ignore these wacko notions that could become law. There is a lot of political maneuvering going on right now... a minority government that everyone assumed would align with the left to keep voters happy...instead could be aligning with the right to keep the US happy. As trading partners/neighbours, we have been deliberating pissing each other off for whatever reasons, so the legalization card could be easily played instead. So the race is on.. |