Current Affairs (2006) -
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| Sep 23, 2006 |
Four Arrested As Police Search Schools For Drugs Four youths were arrested this week after police scoured three city high schools looking for drugs. No names were released, and police -- who seized small amounts of marijuana and drug paraphernalia -- didn't say whether those arrested were students....The searches were part of regular rotating school blitzes done by police, she said. |
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| Sep 26, 2006 |
Editorial: Potheads May Not Have Thought This One t seems that every time we carry any kind of drug awareness article in the paper we receive a flood of letters to the editor from people keen to tell us that drugs aren't so bad at all. There seems to be a group of people who spend their lives combing the Internet looking for such stories as an opportunity to argue their case that marijuana should be legalized. |
| Sep 26, 2006 |
Pot Crusader Found Guilty Of Trafficking Marijuana Grant Krieger, a well-known pot crusader, has again been found guilty of trafficking in marijuana after he sent packages to people in Manitoba for medicinal uses on two separate occasions. Provincial court Judge William Pepler found Krieger guilty Monday of two counts of trafficking in marijuana on Dec. 3, 2003 and Jan. 8, 2004. |
| Sep 27, 2006 |
Support Called In For Large Grow-Op A recent outdoor grow-op involving 7,500 marijuana plants that were close to being ready to harvest was one such an example of the benefits of being part of the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachments. "This recent case is a good example of the real benefits of integrated policing ( with the UFVRD )," says Sergeant Mike McCarthy with the Agassiz RCMP. |
| Sep 27, 2006 |
Green And Legal Feds Won't Tell Grow-Op Busters Who's Got A Licence It's a budding problem cops wish they could weed out. Officers with the Edmonton Police Service-RCMP Green Team are occasionally raiding marijuana grow-ops that turn out to be operated by growers licensed by the federal government to cultivate pot for medicinal reasons. [So many "problems" would not exist if prohibition did not exist. Then we could see what real problems may be associated with cannabis. |
| Sep 27, 2006 |
Golfing Grandpa Gets Teed Off At US Border The 48-year-old construction worker figures he's entered the U.S. by car or plane at least 60 times since the 1970s...All that for a mothballed misdemeanor that was taken care of at the time with a $250 fine...Kimberley swears he's had enough with the U.S.: "Europe is looking really good right now." |
| Sep 28, 2006 |
Straight Dope From Pot Prof U of T philosophy professor Doug Hutchinson, who won the right this week to smoke pot during work hours for an undisclosed medical condition, goes public about his travails in an open letter released September 22 to U of T authorities, fellow philosophy professors and graduate students. |
| Sep 28, 2006 |
Column: RCMP Must Be Independent Of Politics n the end, what saved the Mounties was dope. Canada was just getting into the swing of the drug prohibition business, and Parliament ultimately decided that a national presence was necessary to effectively enforce the Opium and Drug Act. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was born, and today employs 60,000 men and women. That crucial role of drugs in the history of the RCMP is important when trying to make sense of some of the more intriguing actions on the part of its high-level decision-makers over the past couple of years. |
| Sep 28, 2006 |
Coke Cop Can't Return Repeated drug possession and use -- to say nothing of the thefts -- has landed many others behind bars. And yet Hall thinks he should be put back into a position to enforce the laws he so flagrantly disregarded. Police Supt. Ralph Erfle has tossed cold water on the idea of Hall winning back his job, telling the hearing that the constable is "one of the last officers" the Ottawa force would want as its public face. |
| Sep 28, 2006 |
Feds' Wily Weed Cash Ruse Bouzanis confirms that only $2 million was ever doled out of the original $7.5 million earmarked for reefer research, while about $5.5 million remains to be spent. Vancouver NDP MP Libby Davies has requested that Auditor General Sheila Fraser look into the accounting of all money spent on the program. |
| Sep 29, 2006 |
Elementary School Suspends Boy For Pot The principal at Mildred Hall school hopes a Grade 7 student caught with marijuana last week can chalk it up as a learning experience. |
| Sep 29, 2006 |
Nurses Lash Out At Spending Cuts Ontario nurses are lashing out at recently announced spending cuts by the federal Conservative government..... They also take aim at money cut from the medical marijuana, Health Canada policy research and court challenges programs. |
| Sep 30, 2006 |
Chong Pontificates On Politics, Pot And Prison In New n his new book "The I Chong: Meditations From the Joint" ( Simon and Schuster ), Chong insists the feds came after him, at the behest of the Bush administration, because he'd frequently spoken out against the war on terror and the erosion of civil liberties after 9-11. |
| Oct 2, 2006 |
Marijuana Activist Gets Six Months Jail Iglulik - Nunavut's most outspoken marijuana advocate will serve time behind bars because of the very thing he promotes. After pleading guilty to trafficking and laundering the proceeds of crime, Ed DeVries was sentenced to six months in jail and one year probation on Sept. 25 in Iglulik. |
| Oct 2, 2006 |
Editorial: Democracy Is Inclusive The Reverend ( we assume ) Michel Ethier must be given top marks for persistence. He wants to become His Worship the Mayor of West Nipissing, and none shall deny his right to try, try, and try again. He is also minister in the pot-promoting Church of the Universe, so it must be assumed he is entitled to some reverence. |
| Oct 3, 2006 |
Medical Marijuana Grower Shot During Attempted Theft <strong>Pair Posed As Police To Gain Access To House Where Drug Was Grown</strong> A man shot during a home invasion is recovering in a Kingston hospital today, while the OPP search for the men who posed as police officers in order to steal his medicinal marijuana. [When it comes to stealing gardens, it has always been difficult to differentiate between the cops and robbers - what does that say?] |
| Oct 4, 2006 |
Output To Increase As Pot Deal Extended Health Canada has awarded Flin Flon's famous grow-op a one-year extension that calls for a significant jump in medicinal marijuana output. The $2.1-million deal requires contractor Prairie Plant Systems to supply 1,712 lbs of pot throughout the year, up 85 per cent from the previous annual total. Brent Zettl, Prairie's president and CEO, said his Saskatoon-based company will spend nearly $500,000 in upgrades to accommodate the increased production. |
| Oct 4, 2006 |
Cannabis Users Confused The medical marijuana issue has become even more confusing as a conservative budget cut of $7.5 million meets mixed response from concerned parties across the country. A prominent AIDS organization condemned the cut as "impeding" timely access to appropriate care for its members, while the Canadian Cannabis Coalition ( the largest organization of its kind in the world ) points to the private research being done and says the cuts are essentially a non-issue. |
| Oct 5, 2006 |
OPP Survey Yields $65 Million Crop Each summer and fall, the OPP drug unit surveys the province by helicopter, looking for the tell-tale patches of emerald green that indicate a marijuana grow operation. In this region last month, members of the Kawartha Combined Forces Drug Unit ( KCFDU ) spotted more than 23 crops hidden in creek beds and farmers' fields, which amounted to just over $6.5 million worth of marijuana. |
| Oct 5, 2006 |
BC The Marijuana Capital Of Canada, Study Finds People in B.C. smoke more marijuana than people in any other province in Canada, according to a study released Wednesday. "There is more occasional and low-risk cannabis use, more tolerant attitudes, and greater availability in B.C. than in the rest of Canada," says the study for Addictions Research of B.C., which is based at the University of Victoria, "In B.C. cannabis, like alcohol, is now regarded as a 'normal' recreational drug." |