Current Affairs (2006) -
Corruption (313 items)
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| Jan 16, 2006 |
PUB LTE: Legalizing Cannabis Use Way To Fix Crime Woes Amid all the talk of ending gun crime, violence and gangs, I have yet to hear anybody offer any real solutions to this problem. Guns, violence, and gangs are often rightly associated with drugs. Gun and drug sales provide nearly 100 per cent of funding for gangs. Gangs need drugs to make money, and they need guns to protect the drugs. |
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| Jan 17, 2006 |
Marijuana Points Way To Anti-Obesity Drug A marijuana joint might seem an odd starting point in the search for weight-loss solutions. Yet a new compound switching off the same brain circuits that make people hungry when they smoke cannabis looks set to become the world's first blockbuster anti-obesity medicine, with sales tipped by analysts to top $3 billion US a year. |
| Jan 19, 2006 |
Hemp Supporter Gets Candidates Talking TRURO -- Running as a somewhat controversial independent in this federal election, Rick Simpson usually doesn't have party platforms and policies to tout during political debates. That changed Tuesday when Mr. Simpson, who makes a marijuana-based product he calls hemp oil ( not hemp seed oil ), got to discuss alternative medicines during a live radio debate with other candidates in Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley. |
| Jan 19, 2006 |
'Legal' Dope Faces Major Medical Hurdle Medicinal marijuana may be legal in Canada, but try finding a doctor who will sign the paper to get it, says a B.C. woman who has been looking for more than a year. [The public needs to know about the dysfunctional state of the medical cannabis program] |
| Jan 20, 2006 |
Judge Says Cancer Victim, Steve Kubby, Must Be Sent to US Denies Appeal to Stop Removal Order. Claims Kubby Will Not Be Arrested Despite Statement by California Prosecutor. Claims Prop 215 Protects Patients, Despite Fact No US Jails Allow Medical Cannabis Use. Family Fears He Will Die in US. VANCOUVER -- Canadian Federal Justice, Yvon Pinard, ruled today that Immigration Canada may now proceed with its attempt to send Steve Kubby, cancer patient and medical marijuana refugee, to die in an American jail. Immigration Canada is expected to issue a new removal date, presumably sometime next week. For more info call: Michele Kubby (250)578-8422 Please phone or fax the Ministers of Immigration, Health, Justice and Public Safety: [In transition due to election - how convenient.] |
| Jan 21, 2006 |
CN NS:
No Progress For Man Trying To Get Pot Back TRURO -- John Cook will have to wait another couple of months to get his pot back from the authorities. The medicinal marijuana activist from Halifax has been trying since May 2005 to get a 500-gram package of marijuana -- valued at $7,500 - -- back from police. Officers seized it as he was trying to ship it by bus last January to one of his clients in Springhill. |
| Jan 24, 2006 |
Medical Marijuana Advocate Must Leave VANCOUVER ( CP ) -- After losing his last legal challenge to stay in Canada, medical marijuana advocate Steve Kubby has been told to leave the country by Thursday. |
| Jan 24, 2006 |
ELECTION 2006: ANOTHER CASE OF ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION <br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0"> <tr><th class="hpt1">CON </th><th class="hpt1">124 </th><th class="hpt1">(36.25%)</th><th class="hpt1"> | </th><th class="hpt1">NDP </th><th class="hpt1">29</th><th class="hpt1">(17.49%)</th></tr> <tr><th class="hpt1">LIB</th><th class="hpt1">103</th><th class="hpt1">(30.22%)</th><th class="hpt1"> | </th><th class="hpt1">IND</th><th class="hpt1">1</th><th class="hpt1">(.52%)</th></tr> <tr><th class="hpt1">BQ</th><th class="hpt1">51</th><th class="hpt1">(10.48%)</th><th class="hpt1"> | </th><th class="hpt1">OTH </th><th class="hpt1">0</th><th class="hpt1">(5.05%) </th></tr> </table> <br> <a href="http://www.harperstiestousa.org/" target="_blank"><b>Victory for US?</b></a><br><br> Once again, Canada?s antiquated first-past-the-post system wasted millions of votes, distorted results, severely punished large blocks of voters, exaggerated regional differences, created an unrepresentative Parliament, and may possibly have even given us the wrong government. |
| Jan 25, 2006 |
CN NS:
Pot Charges Result In Challenge To Charter AMHERST -- A Maccan man who says he was growing marijuana to help himself and 300 others with medical conditions is launching a Charter of Rights challenge in the hopes of squashing several drug charges that have been laid against him.... The charter challenge will be filed with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court on March 6. |
| Jan 26, 2006 |
Growing For The Neighbourhood The Fraser Institute estimates there are 17,500 grow-ops in the province, part of a multi-billion dollar provincial industry they estimate could translate into $2 billion of annual tax revenue....About 50,000 Canadians are arrested each year for marijuana-related offences and hundreds of thousands of Canadians already have criminal records for simple possession of marijuana. |
| Jan 26, 2006 |
Home Grow-Op His Right, Says Spurned Renter A B.C. medical marijuana user has taken his right to grow pot in a rental home to the Human Rights Tribunal. Vandale Smith told a landlord he intended to grow marijuana in the rental home, and was licensed to do so by Health Canada. [Discrimination, persecution... all the hallmarks are there] |
| Jan 27, 2006 |
Medical Marijuna Refugee Steve Kubby Arrested Medical marijuana refugee Steve Kubby was taken to the Placer County jail today to begin serving a 4-month sentence on drug possession charges. Supporters are fearful that he will not survive in jail without access to medical marijuana. Kubby has used cannabis exclusively to treat a rare form of adrenal cancer, pheochromocytoma , since the 1980s, and is thought to be the longest living survivor of the disease. <a href="http://canorml.org/news/kubbyarrested.htm" target="_blank">[ Read more....]</a> |
| Jan 27, 2006 |
Rottweiler Shot Dead In Police Raid On Apartment A drug raid on a downtown apartment that netted a few grams of cocaine and marijuana ended in police shooting a Rottweiler dead when the dog attacked officers as they stormed through the door. |
| Jan 27, 2006 |
CN BC:
CN BC: Bylaw Aimed At Paraphernalia, Hydroponic Sales The city can't ban outright the sale of drug paraphernalia or hydroponic equipment that can also be used for indoor marijuana grow operations, but charging a hefty licence fee and setting up a buyers' registry would make those who want to trade in those markets think twice. [Big brother takes aim... again] |
| Jan 27, 2006 |
Pot Activist Obeys Deportation Order To US VANCOUVER -- Before his deportation to California yesterday, Steven Kubby gathered his wife and two daughters to his side. |
| Jan 27, 2006 |
PUB LTE: Media Offers Biased Coverage Not to mention the fact that if the media had ever reported honestly and factually about the connection between marijuana prohibition and gun-violence, the results of this election would have been much different. A truly disgusting railroading of democracy. |
| Jan 28, 2006 |
Delta Police Issue Warning On Meth-Laced Marijuana "The police have received information that this is occurring in order to facilitate a new addiction to methamphetamines in those that are using marijuana recreationally or in a social capacity," said media liaison officer Const. Kim Sheridan. [If public safety was the top priority for public funds, then wouldn't the public enjoy the protection of a regulated market? If even their pet food is regulated, why can't substances they may ingest be too?] |
| Feb 2, 2006 |
Concert Staff Ignored Pot Smokers: Upset Mom Ellis, her nine-year-old daughter and two nieces, aged eight and 10, are all big fans of Nickelback, and Ellis thought it would be fun to take the kids to the Jan. 26 show. "I was naive. I've had people say to me, 'You should have done some research.' I never did," Ellis said. "Now that I know, it was irresponsible of me, but prior to ( the concert ) I was unaware and naive. I'm terribly upset with myself that I put my kids in this position." Ellis said she was forced to leave her seat, children in tow, as a man sitting near her lit up, even after she announced marijuana and children do not mix. [What can you say about a parent who either has amnesia or has never been to a rock concert in their life, but decides to take very young children to one, then discovers pot is smoked at concerts, and turns it into a media event? And why did the media go along?] |
| Feb 3, 2006 |
Marijuana Activists Fuming Over Arrest Medical marijuana advocates are angry over the treatment of a Regina AIDS patient who was arrested after his marijuana licence expired. Tom Shapiro was handcuffed, along with his wife and son, for four hours while police tried to determine his status in Health Canada's medical marijuana program, said an official with the Canadian AIDS Society. [Welcome to the new Conservative government and the way things will be done now. Oh, where did some of the biggest websites like Overgrow.com go?} |
| Feb 3, 2006 |
LTE: Troubled By Youth's View Of Marijuana TROUBLED BY YOUTH'S VIEW OF MARIJUANA As an educator and counsellor of teens, I have felt the need to write about the apparent acceptance, by many, of marijuana use as a harmless pastime. My need to write was heightened after observing student reactions to a recent all-candidates meeting and the student "practice" federal election held in area schools. The Marijuana Party candidate received cheers, support and significant votes from many students. |