Current Affairs (2007) -
Chronological (432 items)
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| Jun 28, 2007 |
BC:
'Awesome' Teacher On Pot Charge An "awesome" counsellor and teacher at Lillooet Secondary is to appear in court next month, charged with trafficking marijuana. |
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| Jun 29, 2007 |
Revisit Pot Law They called prohibition, the banning of the production, distribution and sale of alcohol early in the last century 'The Noble Experiment.' It was supposed to rid society of drunkenness, poverty, crime and various other societal ills. By any measure, it was a catastrophic failure. |
| Jun 29, 2007 |
We Need To Start Winning The Pot Propaganda In the battle against harmful drugs, society has at least two main defences: the courts and the court of public opinion. B.C.'s courts, however, appear powerless. |
| Jun 30, 2007 |
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Student To Keep Good Grades Wawota's Kieran King may be able to hang onto his honour role status, despite being suspended from Wawota Parkland School for violating a lockdown. |
| Jul 1, 2007 |
High Time IN handing a grow operator a conditional sentence last month, North Vancouver provincial judge Doug Moss expressed frustration the court could not do more to curb his activities. We share Moss's frustration, but we believe it is misdirected. ...Drugs - marijuana included - should be legalized, regulated, and restricted internationally, much the way cigarettes are. Drugs cannot be vanquished, but the criminals who pedal them can. The dangers of legalized drugs are manifold, but they are nothing compared to the dangers of the status quo. |
| Jul 2, 2007 |
Landlord Jailed For Renting Grow-Op House To Family A Niagara Falls landlord will spend the next 60 days behind bars for knowingly renting a toxic home to an unsuspecting family of five. [How many landlords across Canada would be in jail for renting moldy units (whether used for gardens or not) if they were all held accountable? This case appears to be a mix of racism and prejudice] |
| Jul 4, 2007 |
Dubai Prisoner Has Island Ties Canadian anti-drug advocate Bert Tatham is currently appealing a four-year jail sentence after being found guilty of possession for trace amounts of hashish and two dried poppy flowers in Dubai. |
| Jul 5, 2007 |
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Home-Grow Registry Wanted Real estate agents and local police are working together to ensure potential homeowners don't get duped into buying a home once used in an illegal drug operation. |
| Jul 6, 2007 |
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Police Officer Arrested During Series Of Raids Toronto police have accused one of their own officers of helping an Eastern European organized crime group charged with importing and exporting marijuana and cocaine between Canada and the United States. |
| Jul 6, 2007 |
QU:
Growing Season: Are Farmers Really Being Intimidated? In Brome-Missisquoi and in Coaticook, farmers can sign a "social contract" with the Surete du Quebec . The contract gives police permission to venture onto the land at any time in search of outlaw plantations. Otherwise police can't check a property without probable cause, or permission from the landowner. ...However, cases of intimidation may not be as common as news coverage would make it seem. Media reports of farmers being threatened by growers are common, but often lack people willing to come forward to back up the allegations. Just how often it actually happens is unclear. "I've had no cases of intimidation reported," Potvin said. |
| Jul 6, 2007 |
Pot Documentary Has Local Filmmaker On A Roll A Kelowna man's documentary film about the marijuana industry is making waves on the film festival circuit. The Union: the business of getting high, won outstanding feature documentary honours at the Winnipeg International Film Festival last month. Next month, it is slated to appear at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. |
| Jul 6, 2007 |
Reimer Loses Court Battle Marijuana Activist Rick Reimer Has Lost His Day In Court. In a written decision released Thursday, Ottawa Justice C. McKinnon threw out the $3 million civil suit launched by the former Pembroke lawyer, who possesses a medical exemption to smoke, grow and cultivate marijuana to treat his Multiple Sclerosis. |
| Jul 7, 2007 |
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Niagara Grow-Op Strategy Praised By Province At a press conference outside the Niagara Falls police station, Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor announced the Liberal government was expanding its "guns, gangs and grow-ops project" to combat violence and build safer communities. [The violence and economy created by prohibition becomes larger and more entrenched every year at the expense of civil society - but not enough members seem to notice or care - yet] |
| Jul 7, 2007 |
BC:
Dope Bylaw Ignored Landowners are turning a blind eye to North Cowichan's bylaw mandating bi-monthly property inspections. In February, the municipality introduced the bylaw to crack down on marijuana growing operations.... Of the North Cowichan properties Allan manages through Rowan Property Management Ltd., half of the owners instructed Allan to ignore the bylaw. |
| Jul 8, 2007 |
Your Fate If Arrested For Pot Smoking? Marc-Boris St-Maurice has been arrested so many times for marijuana possession that he serves as a one-man clinical study in the fate reserved for those caught with small amounts of pot. The study's theme would be inconsistency. |
| Jul 9, 2007 |
Pot Possession Arrests on the Rise The number of people arrested for smoking pot rose dramatically in several Canadian cities last year after the Conservatives took office and killed a bill to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana... Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Halifax all reported increases of between 20 and 50 per cent in 2006, while Montreal and Calgary saw their number of arrests dip a few points from the previous year. |
| Jul 9, 2007 |
An Apology Required WINNIPEG police officers were understandably dismayed that the man accused of shooting the officers in December has been released on bail, the judge having been convinced Daniell Anderson was neither a risk to the community or of fleeing. Their abusive comments, however, directed toward the judge are unacceptable and the officers must formally apologize to Court of Queen's Bench Justice Karen Simonsen. ...One officer was heard to say someone -- Daniell Anderson? -- should have been killed, while the mutterings of others called into disrepute the justice system. Said in the heat of the moment, they were nonetheless alarming remarks. |
| Jul 10, 2007 |
We're Champion Potheads Marijuana use in Canada is the highest in the industrialized world, far higher than in the Netherlands where it's legal, and more than four times the global rate, a report by the United Nations has found....The data show Canadian usage fifth after Zambia ( 17.7 per cent in 2003 ), Ghana ( 21.5 per cent in 1998 ) and Papua New Guinea and Micronesia tied for first place at 29 per cent each in 1995. |
| Jul 11, 2007 |
CFL Gone To Pot, Ex-Player Says A Lot Of Players In The Cfl Smoke A Lot Of Marijuana. This is the word from Sean Millington, who spent 13 seasons as a running back with the B.C. Lions, Edmonton Eskimos, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto Argonauts and who has been a member of the CBC's CFL broadcast crew off and on since 2003. ...Millington claims that, unlike NFLers, CFLers generally don't get paid enough to be able to afford drugs -- except for marijuana. |
| Jul 11, 2007 |
What's Really Fuelling This Economic Boom? ...Linking unrelated trends can be dangerous, as any statistician will tell you, but we can't help but wonder how much of B.C.'s economic and real estate booms are really due to our standing as national pot kings. There's got to be some way all those people are affording all that high-priced real estate -- the average B.C. house price reached a record high of $454,945 in May, according to the Real Estate Weekly...But how strong would our economy be if grow ops -- and all the money they generate both directly and indirectly -- were taken out of the equation? ..During B.C.'s pot boom, real estate prices continue to climb unbelievably high. Coincidence? Maybe. [No coincidence, and politicians know it. Remember the raid on the BC legislature and the grow op raids tied to the same people..Coincidence? Maybe.] |