Current Affairs (2005) -
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| Apr 8, 2005 |
CN BC:
Massive Grow Op Nailed By Cops Chilliwack: Police pulled 3,967 marijuana plants from two barns in the 48700 block of McConnell Road Wednesday. |
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| Apr 10, 2005 |
CN ON:
CN ON: Council To See $8-m Plan To Root Out Grow Houses An $8-Million Plan To Stem The Proliferation Of Marijuana Grow Houses Is On Its Way To Toronto Council. [Unbelievable! One can only imagine how much $8million would help ease poverty or hunger in the city instead of feeding the pot fetish that politicians develop] |
| Apr 12, 2005 |
CN BC:
Pot Search Ruled Illegal At issue was the information used by police to get a search warrant for the premises in late November, 2003. According to Romilly's decision, the police received the information from a confidential source that there were 300 to 400 marijuana plants inside the residence in question, including the upstairs and the basement. The house is actually a small, one-storey bungalow with no basement. |
| Apr 13, 2005 |
CN NS:
Drug-dealing Cop To Be Paroled A former RCMP officer and convicted drug dealer will get out of prison after only eight months behind bars. |
| Apr 15, 2005 |
Charges Withdrawn In $1 Million Marijuana Case Search Likely Wouldn't Stand Up to Charter Of Rights And Freedoms hallenge, Crown Says Charges against four men accused of growing more than $1 million worth of marijuana northwest of Kemble last fall were withdrawn Thursday. |
| Apr 16, 2005 |
Up In Smoke A Sick Guelph Man Fears The Future After Police Confiscate His Crop Of What He Argues Is Legal Marijuana, Prescribed To Ease His Many Ailments. |
| Apr 18, 2005 |
'Toking Time' At Falls NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. -- The Horseshoe Falls was the backdrop for activists rallying to legalize marijuana. "Weed is a good thing. It's stereotyped not in a good way," said Mary Wilson, a Niagara Falls woman among approximately 250 people who lit up in Queen Victoria Park on Saturday at 4:20 p.m., the time of day pot-smokers consider the universal toking time. |
| Apr 18, 2005 |
New Drug Dogs Join Police Force The Medicine Hat police have added a couple new members to their force -- two seven-week-old chocolate Labrador dogs that will eventually aid in keeping drugs out of schools. [Not only is are the police not our "friends" anymore, they are making sure that even dogs can no longer be considered "man's best friend" when they are used for this purpose...] |
| Apr 19, 2005 |
Health Canada Approves Sativex Canada becomes the first country in the world to approve Sativex, a novel prescription pharmaceutical product derived from components of the cannabis plant shown to have therapeutic properties. Sativex is administered via a spray into the mouth." [GW Pharma's attempt to medicalize this herb is now lurching closer to biopiracy, but in the spirit of openness and hoping this may add to the treatment options for many medical cannabis users, <a href="http://thevics.com/" target=_blank">the VICS</a> is publicly offering for the very first time, our Cannamist/tincture recipe - including how to convert the THCA into more usable THC.<a href="http://thevics.com/Cannamist.htm" target=_blank">VICS Cannamist/Tincture Recipe</a> ] |
| Apr 19, 2005 |
Just-released Marijuana Grower Wants To Run For Election Felger intends to run for the Marijuana party of B.C. in the May 17 provincial election against de Jong, the Liberal MLA who has represented Abbotsford-Mount Lehman since 1994. |
| Apr 19, 2005 |
Smokin' Up The Joint Tomorrow is World Marijuana Day. You won't find it on the calendar. Actually, you won't find it anywhere but on the Internet. |
| Apr 19, 2005 |
Politics Pot Party Candidate Pushing Medical Use Tony Adams said his recent classified ad in The Peace Arch News offering to train potential Marijuana Party candidates as medical marijuana growers was legitimate. |
| Apr 20, 2005 |
Legalizing Pot Is His Number-one Priority Neil Magnuson wants Surrey residents to have access to safe medication, namely marijuana, which is reportedly useful for some maladies including glaucoma and treatment for nausea related to chemotherapy. |
| Apr 20, 2005 |
Police Beating 'Shamed' Officer After being yelled at by Const. Raymond Gardner, who told Desjardins the police weren't about to lose control of Granville Street to drug dealers and that the people there were tired of their activities and the area being unsafe, Peters said Desjardins received "a flurry" of short, punches from the five officers. He fell to the ground and "turtled up" in an effort to protect himself with his arms covering his head, and knees drawn up to his chest. The officers then began to deliver short kicks to his body, with Kojima moving his head from side to side with the inside of his boot much like a "small child trying to control a soccer ball." [To serve and protect. eh?] |
| Apr 21, 2005 |
High Schools Need To Do More: RCMP Const. Richard DeJong, the RCMP's drug-awareness coordinator, describes DARE as a "building block of prevention." [Many people describe DARE as steady employment for cops] |
| Apr 21, 2005 |
Pot Users Light Up Outside Legislature MORE than 500 pot smokers spent yesterday afternoon smoking joints and lounging on the Legislative Building grounds as part of an annual call for the legalization of marijuana. |
| Apr 21, 2005 |
Victoria's Top Toker Can't Join Smoke-In Pot aroma wafts over City Hall in sixth annual joint jubilee Victoria's best-known pot advocate was one of the few who didn't light up Thursday afternoon outside City Hall. It's not that Ted Smith didn't want to join revelers in the annual marijuana 4/20 celebrations -- it's just that a few police officers were keeping an eye on Centennial Square, and Smith is already facing drug charges. |
| Apr 21, 2005 |
What The Law Dictates Under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, drugs fall into numerous categories, or schedules, that are ranked in the legal system according to their perceived severity...Marijuana and hash ( more than 30 grams and more than 1 gram respectively ) are schedule 2....Possession ..six months to five years for schedule 2..trafficking front, schedule 2's maximum punishment is life ( 25 years with no parole ). [ An activist received 3 months for passing a joint... what's next - 10 years?] |
| Apr 21, 2005 |
Speaker Warns Students About The Dangers Of Smoking Marijuana Jerome Bouvier, who is paralyzed from the chest down as a result of waterskiing while stoned at the age of 23, brought his anti-drug message to Surrey this week. ..He started smoking pot at age 14. "Pot has a lot of friends," he said, listing cocaine, methamphetamine and acid. "I kept meeting all these friends." By age 19, he said, he couldn't function without cocaine and lost contact with his family. [There is no mention that tobacco and alcohol are the foremost "gateway" drugs around] |
| Apr 21, 2005 |
Some MDs Recommending Marijuana For Medical Use As federal lawmakers prepare to pass legislation decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use, Montreal's McGill University Health Centre has issued a study concluding some doctors already are suggesting their patients use cannabis for a variety of medical purposes |