Current Affairs (2007) -
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| Sep 27, 2007 |
Stop Selling of Grow-Op Equipment - Fire Chiefs Canada's fire chiefs are calling for the government to restrict the sale of hydroponics equipment in an attempt to quash the proliferation of clandestine marijuana grow operations... "These operations create a significant hazard for the community and for the health and safety of firefighters not only in Niagara, but across the country," Ontario Fire Marshal Pat Burke said Wednesday. |
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| Sep 27, 2007 |
ON:
Time For City To Grow Op After three hours punching each other silly over issues like amending the fireworks bylaw, the licensing and standards committee is finally ready to hear my deputation September 11. I'm here on behalf of the Canadian Cannabis Society to speak to the final agenda item: how the city plans to police pot and divvy up the proceeds of grow op busts. |
| Sep 27, 2007 |
Stop Selling of Grow-Op Equipment - Fire Chiefs Canada's fire chiefs are calling for the government to restrict the sale of hydroponics equipment in an attempt to quash the proliferation of clandestine marijuana grow operations. |
| Sep 28, 2007 |
Pot Exports Harmed By Strong Loonie The strong Canadian dollar has hit the illegal marijuana sector just as it has other industries that export to the United States, one of Canada's best known legalization advocates said Thursday. |
| Sep 29, 2007 |
BC:
'Grow Op War Won' Marijuana growers seem to be in rapid retreat, especially in Surrey, where civic officials are poised to declare victory over local grow-ops. The most powerful weapon hasn't been increased conventional policing, but rather the threat of electrical inspections and service disconnections for residential homes that B.C. Hydro records show have extreme power consumption, a tell-tale sign of a grow-op. [What will they do when the next generation of lights do not use much electricity and are much cooler?] |
| Sep 29, 2007 |
Cannabis Culture Lights Up the Festival Films About Marijuana Are Challenging Viewers' Thoughts About the Politics Behind the Drug VANCOUVER -- Nick Wilson was 26, developing a documentary - his first - - about online infidelity, when he had a conversation with his 68-year-old aunt that sent him in a new direction. Aunt Wendy had seen a news story on TV about the Vancouver marijuana activist Marc Emery and she was incensed. Why were U.S. authorities after him? And why would Canada even consider extraditing a Canadian to face up to life in prison, simply for selling marijuana seeds? |
| Sep 30, 2007 |
'Party's Over' For Druggies: Health Minister OTTAWA -- Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: "The party's over" for illicit drug users. "In the next few days, we're going to be back in the business of an anti-drug strategy," Clement said. "In that sense, the party's over." |
| Sep 30, 2007 |
Tories to Drug Users: The Party's Over Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: "the party's over" for illicit drug users. "In the next few days, we're going to be back in the business of an anti-drug strategy," Clement told The Canadian Press. "In that sense, the party's over." Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Halifax all reported increases of between 20% and 50% in 2006 of arrests for possession of cannabis, compared with the previous year. As a result thousands of people were charged with a criminal offence that, under the previous Liberal government, was on the verge of being classified as a misdemeanour. |
| Oct 1, 2007 |
PR: New National Anti-Drug Strategy plays politics with people's lives TORONTO, Oct. 1 /CNW/ - The new National Anti-Drug Strategy to be officially unveiled this week by federal Health Minister Tony Clement is a huge step backward for Canada's response to HIV/AIDS, said the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network today...."It seems clear that the new drug strategy is based on ideology instead of evidence, and from every angle - human rights, public health, or use of taxpayers' dollars - that's irresponsible and unacceptable." |
| Oct 1, 2007 |
Tory Pot Smokers Should Be The First To Turn Themselves Into Police! Stephen Harper is about to declare another 'War on drugs.' Statistics show that roughly 16.8% of Canadians use marijuana / cannabis. You therefore have to assume that there MUST be a couple of Conservative Members of Parliament who fit into the 16.8% number. ... It is time for EVERY card carrying member of the Conservative Party of Canada who uses cannabis to lead by example and turn themselves into the police immediately whether or not they support Harper's new initiative. |
| Oct 1, 2007 |
Patients, Activists To Address Ramifications Of New National Anti-Drug MEDIA ADVISORY Location: Charles Lynch Press Theatre, Room 130-S, Parliament Hill, Ottawa Date and Time: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 1 p.m. For further Information: Christine Lowe - 613-248-9190 Tara Lyons - 613-263-1335 |
| Oct 2, 2007 |
Own Up To Your Teenage Reefer Madness 'Dad, did you smoke pot when you were in high school?" "Yes, but actually I was in eighth grade when I started." "No." ( Actually, I did but I don't want to tell him because I don't want him to get any ideas. ) "No." ( It's true that I didn't. I was kind of a goody-two-shoes. But frankly, I've always wondered if I would have had more fun as a teenager if I had been willing to take more chances. I think maybe I missed out. ) "It's none of your business." What should you tell your kids - and how honest should you be - about your teenage adventures with sex, drugs and drinking? |
| Oct 3, 2007 |
Club Head Wants Quebec To Run Medical Marijuana Access The founder of the Montreal Compassion Club wants Quebec to take over the administration of the federal Medical Marijuana Access program in the province. Marc-Boris St-Maurice said yesterday the program is "an embarrassing oxymoron." He complained about major delays processing applications, licence renewals and changes of address. |
| Oct 3, 2007 |
BC:
US War Deserter Is Held After Pot Arrest In Nelson NELSON - A U.S. army deserter has been arrested in Nelson. Robin Long, 24, was arrested by police on a countrywide warrant on Monday. Long, who is from Ontario, was in Nelson visiting friends and staying with fellow war resisters. But Nelson police Chief Dan Maluta said Long was arrested as a result of regular police work, not because they were targeting war resisters. |
| Oct 3, 2007 |
Ottawa's New Drug Policy Wrong Way To Go 'The party's over," federal Health Minister Tony Clement intoned this past weekend. Mr. Clement was talking about drug users, but it wasn't entirely clear which ones...All the available evidence suggests that this will be a waste of time and money. Worse, it could cost some lives and ruin others. |
| Oct 4, 2007 |
Tories' War On Drugs Termed US-Style The government is embracing a U.S.-style "war on drugs" that approaches drug abuse as more of a criminal matter than a health issue, Liberal and New Democratic Party critics said yesterday. |
| Oct 4, 2007 |
Med Pot's Slow Access? As the Montreal Compassion Centre gets ready to celebrate the official opening of their new digs on 72 Rachel E. this Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m., relations between the benevolent marijuana distribution organization and the bureaucrats running Health Canada's Medical Marijuana Access program remain as stilted as ever. |
| Oct 4, 2007 |
Drug Dealer Needed Cash to Pay Lawyer Three weeks after receiving a conditional sentence for selling marijuana, a Regina man was back peddling pot once again -- this time to raise money to pay his lawyer. |
| Oct 5, 2007 |
Why a War on Drugs Just Won't Work Basing policy on belief, not facts, dooms strategy to failure from the start...Here's the thing: Health issues can't be resolved through ideology. |
| Oct 6, 2007 |
Conservative Anti-Drug Plan Blasted Critics of the Conservative government's anti-drug plan are calling it everything from naive to politically opportunistic and a threat to the civil liberties of Canadians. A coalition of Vancouver health and social groups says prison terms and attempts to scare users straight won't solve Canada's illegal drug problem. "You just can't incarcerate your way out of this," former Vancouver mayor Philip Owen, a member of the Beyond Prohibition Coalition, said yesterday. "The United States locks down 2.3 million people every night." |