Current Affairs (2005) -
International (469 items)
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| Jan 26, 2005 |
Canada Top Pot Supplier Canada is now the largest single supplier of pot to the United States, says a top customs official. [ <a href="http://frankdiscussion.netfirms.com/images/usmjimportschart.gif" target="_blank">LIES!!!!...</a> it was only 3 months ago the report below came out...] <br><br> *FLASHBACK* October 25, 2004 <a href="http://www.psepc-sppcc.gc.ca/publications/policing/drug_threat_e.asp">United States-Canada Border Drug Threat Assessment:</a> While Canadian-produced marijuana accounts for only approximately 2% of overall U.S. marijuana seizures at its borders, the two governments are very concerned about an upward trend in seizures... <a href="http://www.cfdp.ca/export.htm" target="_blank">[Further reading from CFDP]</a> |
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| Jan 26, 2005 |
CN BC:
Hey, What Are They Smoking? Ted Smith's marijuana conviction hasn't slowed the flow at the Cannabis Buyers' Club. The Johnson Street storefront is still open to the 1,400 or so people who say they need marijuana for medical purposes. |
| Jan 26, 2005 |
I'll Take Police Over Landlords, Thanks I don't think a bylaw that encourages landlords to be any more paranoid or nosy is a good idea. Of equal concern for tenants is that landlords are not very good at recognizing innocent tenants. Worse, many landlords are not familiar with the Residential Tenancy Act, and a concept called the right to "quiet and peaceful enjoyment of property." [Of course if you are wealthy enough to afford your own home, you live in a less intrusive world than your less fortunate counterparts. Is it class war when those who make these laws have a choice to live under them, while for others there is no choice?] |
| Jan 27, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Canada Is Small Potatoes Among Pot Exporters ...the available evidence, including reports from the auditor general of Canada, the RCMP, the U.S. and the United Nations, shows just the opposite -- that Canada is in fact only a minor supplier of cannabis to the U.S. - [written by Eugene Oscapella - Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy ] |
| Jan 27, 2005 |
Project North Star a beacon for intelligence community Project North Star, run by the U.S. Border Patrol, gathers law enforcement experts from Canada and the north eastern U.S....the two-day conference also dealt with the explosion of marijuana grow operations in Toronto, ...He said one attendee from the U.S. left a mountain of literature on drugs that will be distributed to the community by Toronto Drug Squad officers. [The US propaganda machine permeates deeper into Canadian culture, and for good reason.... although we are the closest peer country in geographical proximity, we are further away politically from the US than the sell out Commonwealth nations we share our roots with.] |
| Jan 28, 2005 |
CN BC:
RCMP Reach Settlement With Off-Duty Policeman Who should wave him over and ask to see his driver's licence and vehicle registration but a tall man with a thick Texan accent? "We have different freedoms than they do down there. You don't want your police meshing to the point where we start taking on the policies of another police jurisdiction." [Disturbing trend - more US cops coming over the border ] |
| Jan 28, 2005 |
CN BC:
Organized Crime Is Here, Say RCMP The RCMP has a national strategy to deal with organized crime... Illegal drugs are the top priority, followed by outlaw motorcycle gangs, economic crime, high-tech crime, money laundering, illegal migration and trafficking of human beings, corruption and street gangs. [ Trafficking of human beings - usually women - is way at the bottom of the list, but does anyone ever mention the skewed priorities?] |
| Jan 28, 2005 |
Canada bans pot, but taxes seeds Pot may be illegal in Canada, but that hasn't stopped this country from becoming one of the top suppliers of seeds in the world, a marijuana activist says .These companies have found a legal loophole within the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Under section 58, the act specifies "non-viable seeds" as legal but doesn't say anything about "viable seeds." |
| Jan 31, 2005 |
Marijuana Makes Lungs Go To Pot Smoking marijuana can cause the same health problems as smoking cigarettes, a new study shows. [The headline contains as much information about the study as the article itself] |
| Feb 1, 2005 |
Corporate Cannabis Will a New Marijuana Mist Become the Aspirin of the Twenty-First Century? |
| Feb 1, 2005 |
Response consistency in young adolescents' drug use self-reports: a recanting rate analysis. Conclusions: The high levels of recanting uncovered cast doubts on the reliability of drug use reports from young adolescents. Failure to address this response error may lead to biased prevalence estimates, particularly within school surveys and drug education evaluation trials. [This published study confirms suspicions when kids (or adults) are asked about drug use - they will not honestly report whether they break the law. |
| Feb 2, 2005 |
CN QU:
Judge cites racial profiling, throws out charges A Montreal judge has thrown out drug charges against a black man, saying he was a victim of racial profiling. |
| Feb 2, 2005 |
CN BC:
Victoria pot activist fined $500 A medical marijuana activist was fined $500 Wednesday for lighting up five joints at a pro-pot rally. Leon Edward (Ted) Smith, 35, was found guilty of marijuana trafficking after he lit up five marijuana joints at a pro-marijuana rally at the University of Victoria in November 2000. |
| Feb 2, 2005 |
Make Good Choices "Make the right choice about drugs," the parent tells the child, cigarette dangling out of the corner of his mouth, wine bottle clutched in her hand. [Until all drugs are regulated the same, the situation will never change] |
| Feb 2, 2005 |
PUB LTE: American Feels Lost I also have some good advice. Carefully observe U.S. drug policy-then do the opposite. Don't follow us - we're lost. |
| Feb 2, 2005 |
CN BC:
Wheels Fall Off Media Strategy Deals were made with Saturday Night, the Economist, and the Globe and Mail... The Vancouver Sun was also offered a deal which allowed it to publish... if its story was substantially different....the Sun said it couldn't withhold the story from ... the National Post, the Globe's direct competitor. [Business and the business of politics are a drug for some, that can be more harmful to society than crystal meth ] |
| Feb 3, 2005 |
So You Want to Grow Your Own Pot I, as a proud pot-smoking Canadian, have been a trifle disturbed by some of the anti-drug rhetoric floating around lately. We've seen such gems as Anne McLellan labelling all pot smokers as "stupid" and the shameless use of an American national tragedy to push an inane anti-drug agenda: namely, advertisements linking drug use to terrorism. This is spin that makes dervishes look amateur. [How can you tell this is NOT from mainstream media ?] |
| Feb 3, 2005 |
CN BC:
School Drug Policy Shelved In recent weeks, the District's Parent Advisory Council slammed draft Policy No. 300.1: Use of Illegal Drugs, Alcohol and Inhalants, which was undergoing six weeks of field-testing, saying it was seemingly based more on a discipline approach rather than a preventative approach to drug use. [Parents fighting back for a change] |
| Feb 3, 2005 |
CN BC:
Drug-Trafficking Charge Dismissed Over Police Arrest 'Ends Do Not Always Justify Means,' Judge Says Of Cocaine Bust. Drug-trafficking charges against a Vancouver man found with 24 kilograms of cocaine have been dismissed because of "planned and deliberate" Charter violations by Vancouver police. |
| Feb 4, 2005 |
Alcohol as harmful as smoking, study warns LONDON - Alcohol causes almost as many deaths and disabilities worldwide as smoking or high-blood pressure, a study warns....despite evidence that alcohol causes as much harm as tobacco and high blood-pressure, <strong>public-policy decisions are governed all too often by political instead of health concerns...</strong> [If it weren't so, then cannabis would be legal] |