Current Affairs (2005) -
International (469 items)
| Jan 1, 2005 |
CN BC:
Pot, Road Deaths Kept Police Busy Road safety, marijuana grow operations and shootings dominated headlines in the Tri-Cities this year. [Nice how they manage to link Pot, Road Deaths together for the headline but indeed they are two separate things as we find out if we bother to read] |
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| Jan 1, 2005 |
CN BC:
Drug Charges Thrown Out For 'Judge Shopping' Rejected Once, Officer Sought Search Warrant From Second Official |
| Jan 1, 2005 |
CN AB:
Police Seized Pot By The Bushel In '04 Calgary: The seizure of pot crops in 2004 was expected to bring the total number of plants to 81,000 -- worth an estimated $100 million -- by the end of December. |
| Jan 1, 2005 |
CN BC:
DARE Takes On New Approach With Older Students Author: Beth Blackburn Note: RCMP Const. Beth Blackburn is the drug awareness coordinator for central Vancouver Island. |
| Jan 3, 2005 |
CN ON:
The Dangers Of Surveillance If the trend toward more surveillance equipment in schools continues, it could create a furtive, suspicious and alienated generation of Ontarians. |
| Jan 3, 2005 |
CN MB:
Health Canada Officials Linked To Fraud Probe The pleadings, recently filed in Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench, claim the three were part of a scheme to convert Health Canada funding into cash for their personal use. |
| Jan 4, 2005 |
Drug Prohibition Is A Terrorist's Best Friend There is little doubt that terrorist groups around the world profit from the drug trade. What anti-drug crusaders refuse to acknowledge, however, is that the connection between drug trafficking and terrorism is the direct result of making drugs illegal. |
| Jan 4, 2005 |
CN BC:
Court To Hear US Man's Refugee Case An American user of medical marijuana who had his claim for refugee status in Canada rejected more than a year ago says the Federal Court has agreed to hear an appeal of his case. |
| Jan 4, 2005 |
CN BC:
Police Get Nod For Silly Raid, Translink Ranks As Dumbest "This raid is not going to put these sorts of operations out of business. Marijuana is being sold under the counter all over this city and Da Kine's Caf,'s main mistake was that they were quite public about how they were in fact doing it," said BCCLA president John Russell. "The war on marijuana is over and the police have lost it." |
| Jan 4, 2005 |
Police Not To Blame For War On Weed Most people realize marijuana would be a fat cash cow for the government if it were legal, and mercilessly taxed like tobacco or alcohol. I support local police busting grows when necessary, but they shouldn't have to bear the brunt of an entirely preventable 80-year political fiasco. |
| Jan 5, 2005 |
CN BC:
Medical Marijuana User Finds A Grower To Keep Him Supplied A local man who says he needs medical marijuana to stay alive has found a grower, thanks to the Capital News. |
| Jan 5, 2005 |
PUB LTE: The Biggest News Story Some newspapers have decided the sponsorship scandal is the biggest Canadian news of 2004. Although the sponsorship scandal is pretty big news, we need to put it into perspective. ...To many, a much bigger story of government mismanagement is still the colossal failure of the war on drugs. |
| Jan 5, 2005 |
CN AB:
LTE: Dumbfounded He says students have a right to privacy but at what cost? Does this right supersede my child's right to safety? <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v05/n077/a07.html">[rebuttal offered]</a> |
| Jan 6, 2005 |
CN BC:
Champion Of Medical Weed Gets One Of Two Counts Dropped Ted Smith, Victoria's self-appointed champion for people who use marijuana as medicine, was back in court Wednesday.But in this new trial, prosecutor Michael Lawless rose at the start to say the Crown was staying one charge of trafficking in marijuana. But the Crown is still pressing ahead with a second charge, that is possession of cannabis resin, a different substance according to the law. |
| Jan 6, 2005 |
CN AB:
Cops Hope Pot Busts Turn Tide The 2004 dollar amount is more than 10 times the $9 million worth seized in 2001. |
| Jan 6, 2005 |
PUB LTE: This Just In: Weed, Like,Totally Expands Your Mind .... marijuana is not toxic like other drugs people use. No one has ever overdosed on marijuana and died. |
| Jan 7, 2005 |
Boy Dies After Mixing Marijuana With Painkiller A 14-year-old boy from Levis is dead and another is in hospital with severe health effects after mixing marijuana with a prescription drug. [Could the cannabis kill him by itself? NO Could the prescription drug kill him by itself? <a href="http://opioids.com/fentanyl/duragesic.html">YES</a>] |
| Jan 7, 2005 |
CN ON:
Residents Spending Millions On Drugs Residents spend about $2.5 million a month -- or $30 million a year -- on drugs in Timmins, ... "That's $30 million that does not stay in the local economy, that does not get taxed, that leaves Timmins and goes into the bank accounts of Hells Angels and everyone involved in the network," |
| Jan 7, 2005 |
CN BC:
PUB LTE: Misconceptions About Marijuana No matter what Amy van Elk's, or anyone else's opinions about marijuana may be, the bottom line is that our current system of prohibition is failing to achieve any of its stated goals of reducing use, abuse, harm, and crime. |
| Jan 8, 2005 |
CN BC:
Medical Pot Advocate Guilty Of Trafficking Medical Pot Advocate Guilty Of Trafficking </a> The charge against Smith arises from a March 21, 2002 search of the club's Johnson Street offices. Police seized marijuana, cookies, massage oils and salves. The cookies, oils and salves were tested by Health Canada and shown to include cannabis resin, a prohibited substance. He was handed a nine-month conditional discharge. |