Current Affairs (2006) -
Hemp (313 items)
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| May 11, 2006 |
Judge Knew Pot Smoker's Reference A Guelph judge's relationship with a medical marijuana user derailed the sentencing yesterday of a pot crusader who has admitted mailing the drug to users in the United States and Britain. |
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| May 13, 2006 |
Ex-Cop Gets House Arrest EX-COP GETS HOUSE ARREST Shamed and disgraced, the nine-year veteran is given a 12-month conditional sentence. He sold confidential police information knowing it could land in the hands of the Hells Angels motorcycle club. He sold anabolic steroids while wearing a London police uniform. He hid marijuana in an in-line skate in his basement. |
| May 15, 2006 |
Mom Challenges CAS An Oakville mother of four who admits to smoking marijuana regularly is challenging a request by the Children's Aid Society of Halton to undergo a drug test. |
| May 17, 2006 |
Single Joint Leads to Trafficking Charge for High School Student A Newfoundland and Labrador high school student is facing a charge of trafficking following an incident involving a single marijuana cigarette. ...RCMP Cpl. Phil Feltmate said the police wanted to educate students about the seriousness of the incident. "We're trying to get a message out to other kids or like-minded people around all the schools ... that we are promoting zero tolerance," Feltmate said. "Moving ... from one person to another is considered trafficking, whether it's one joint or 10 tonnes. It doesn't make a big difference with respect to the definition." [What is the real message this student is getting?] |
| May 19, 2006 |
Jail Guard In Plot To Smuggle Pot Into Barton: Police A jail guard has been charged with accepting a bribe and conspiring to smuggle nearly $7,000 worth of marijuana into Barton jail. Derek Brown, 25, a corrections officer at Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre, was arrested Feb. 24 while on duty and charged with selling marijuana in an east-end parking lot on his lunch break. Brown has now been charged with accepting a bribe and breach of trust, along with conspiring to traffic drugs. |
| May 24, 2006 |
Pot Crusader One Step Closer To Extradition VANCOUVER -- A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of the federal government and removed a potential impediment to the extradition of Marc Emery and his two co-defendants. <br><br> Mr. Justice Robert Crawford dismissed a motion that would have prohibited federal prosecutors from taking control of a conspiracy charge filed privately against Mr. Emery, Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams.<br><br> "This is exactly the decision the United States government would want," Mr. Roberts said yesterday. He indicated that he intends to file an appeal of the ruling later this week with the B.C. Court of Appeal. "It seems quite clear that it gives the United States government, through the agency of the federal Minister of Justice, approval to interfere in the administration of justice in B.C." |
| May 24, 2006 |
RCMP Bust Retiree For Medical Pot Man's Plants Exceeded His Permit. Is This What We Pay Police To Do <br>The Mounties raided them a few days earlier, cutting down some 300 marijuana plants Bert was growing to supply his 49-year-old wife and another retiree under licences from Health Canada. |
| May 24, 2006 |
Pot Advocate Convicted On Trafficking Charges Former Cafe Owner Faces Up to 10 Years VANCOUVER -- The former owner of a well-known east Vancouver cafe that openly sold marijuana until a police raid in September, 2004, was convicted of two marijuana-trafficking charges yesterday. A British Columbia Supreme Court jury found Carol Gwilt guilty of possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking as well as possession of the proceeds of crime. Her co-defendant, Michael Boudreau, was acquitted on the single charge that he faced, possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. |
| May 26, 2006 |
Legally Using Marijuana In Canada Canada was the first country to regulate medical marijuana use. Health Canada established guidelines to allow Canadians access to marijuana for medicinal reasons in 2001, called Marijuana Medical Access Regulations. The regulations outline circumstances that permit people to use pot for medical reasons under two categories: |
| Jun 3, 2006 |
Police Teaching Hard Lessons Two groups of teenaged boys picked a pretty place to get high on a recent Friday evening, but the timing of their visit to Bedford's Admiral Rock Park couldn't have been worse. |
| Jun 5, 2006 |
Dissenters From The Drug War On May 8, the American DEA ( Drug Enforcement Agency ) and the RCMP met in Montreal to conspire in the so-called "war on drugs." But not all cops are bad. On the same day, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ( www.leap.cc ), an association of some 2,000 active or retired cops, held a counter-symposium in Montreal. LEAP wants an end to the war on drugs, which it believes is a failure. It has had a high cost, in terms of money ( US$69 billion a year in the U. S., according to LEAP ). But also in terms of lost liberties: young lives broken by criminal records, prisons overflowing with drug offenders, people who steal or become prostitutes to buy artificially expensive drugs, street violence generated by warring black-market dealers, searches, surveillance, border controls, RICO, money laundering laws and so on, and so forth. |
| Jun 9, 2006 |
Marijuana Party Joins Political Landscape In Sask PARTY JOINS POLITICAL LANDSCAPE IN SASK. The proverbial "smoke-filled rooms" where political deals are cut may take on a whole new meaning in Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Marijuana Party has joined six other parties as an officially registered provincial political party with Elections Saskatchewan. Like other marijuana parties in the country, it is expected to advocate the legalization of possession and cultivation of cannabis. |
| Jun 10, 2006 |
Canada May Get Competition Saskatchewan farmers who grow industrial hemp may have competition from North Dakota in the coming years. About 24,000 acres ( 9,700 hectares ) of hemp was grown in Canada last year, with roughly one-third of those acres in Saskatchewan. Commercial hemp farming is nonexistent in the United States, where the Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) doesn't currently recognize the crop apart from marijuana. |
| Jun 13, 2006 |
Return To Sender: Mail-Order Pot Seed Goes Astray A Comox Valley marijuana seed business has been foiled because there wasn't enough postage on the marijuana seed packages for them to reach their destination. When several Comox Valley residents received envelopes returned to them because of insufficient postage, they were bemused. They had never seen the envelopes before and most had no idea what they contained. One recipient contacted Comox Valley RCMP. |
| Jun 14, 2006 |
Case 'Dragging On,' Pot Activist Says Fifteen months after he was arrested for exporting marijuana to sick clients, and four months after pleading guilty, a pot activist's roller-coaster ride through the legal system entered a new phase yesterday when the matter was slated to resume sometime next year. |
| Jun 14, 2006 |
Roberts' Case Denied By Judge Local Paddy Roberts Will Appeal B.C. Supreme Court Judge's Decision To Allow Feds To Intervene In Emery Charges Slocan Valley's Patrick Roberts may have lost the fight to prevent Ottawa's involvement in his charges against B.C.'s Pot King Marc Emery, but he is willing to take his battle to the bitter end, even if it means the Supreme Court of Canada. By charging Emery and two accomplices, Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek and Greg Williams, with conspiracy to distribute marijuana seeds, Roberts could have prevented American drug-enforcement officials from charging the trio with the same crimes, thus preventing their extradition to the U.S. to stand trial. The Emery plot thickened when Canada's Federal Attorney General tried to stay Roberts' charges, which would clear the way for extradition. Roberts argued the federal government had no place in the legal battle, as the charges were conspiracy related, not direct drug charges, which would allow for federal intervention. |
| Jun 19, 2006 |
US Sends 'Harsh' Message To BC Smugglers SEATTLE - A U.S. federal judge who sentenced five B.C. first nations members for marijuana-smuggling advised them to spread the word back home about harsh U.S. penalties. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Martinez sentenced them Friday to six months in prison and two years of probation for their roles in the smuggling scheme. |
| Jun 20, 2006 |
Undercover Work Led To Officer's Drug Habit - Lawyer ARRIE - A police officer who infiltrated the Hells Angels became so addicted to cocaine, alcohol and marijuana that he cracked under the strain of life undercover, a court has heard. |
| Jun 22, 2006 |
Co-Accused Can Attend Emery's Wedding: Court Bail conditions are being eased for a B.C. pot activist for his summer wedding prior to an extradition hearing on U.S. drug charges. Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm decided in B.C. Supreme Court that Marc Emery's co-accused can attend the July nuptials. Emery, Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek and Greg Keith Williams were arrested last July after police raided a marijuana paraphernalia store owned by Vancouver's "Prince of Pot." |
| Jun 22, 2006 |
Ex-undercover Officer Gets One Year In Jail A former undercover police officer who fed information about the location of marijuana fields to two men so they could harvest the crop before police raids was sentenced to 12 months in jail yesterday. |