Current Affairs (2007) -
Chronological (432 items)
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| Nov 3, 2007 |
Emery's Bravado May End Up Costing Him Dearly Nick Wilson's long anticipated documentary on Marc Emery, The Prince of Pot, aired on CBC Newsworld's The Lens last week, painting a very bleak picture of Emery's chances of being extradited to America to face charges brought two years ago by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. |
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| Nov 3, 2007 |
Oh, to Stumble Upon a Field of Dreams ... Well, they're at it again. Like a swarm of locusts, the boys in blue have been tromping their ways through the wilds of Nova Scotia this fall wreaking havoc on the well-tended crops of several upstanding, run of the mill criminals who worked oh so diligently to maintain their lush greenery that not only brings happiness to those throughout the land but also creates a future for agricultural up-and-comers. |
| Nov 5, 2007 |
More Calgary Children Seized From Grow Ops More than 60 per cent of all children seized from drug houses in Alberta under the year-old Drug Endangered Children Act were in the Calgary region. Alberta Children's Services figures show 23 of the 38 children apprehended under the act came from the Calgary area, which includes Banff, Cochrane and High River. |
| Nov 5, 2007 |
Professor's Grant Goes To 'Pot' The goal of the cannabis research is to find a way to block the production of psychoactive cannabinoids that produce the mind-altering effects in users so cannabis can become a useful crop for oil, fibre and even food, said Facchini. [Are they trying to re-invent hemp?] |
| Nov 8, 2007 |
University's Used and Abused: Marijuana Few people would recognize 9-tetrahydrocannabinol without its abbreviation as THC. Even as THC, for many it remains an esoteric chemical substance - in fact it is the active molecule in marijuana and it is this week's featured drug in University's Used and Abused. |
| Nov 9, 2007 |
Drunks Put End to Pot Meetings The smoke has cleared and it was alcohol that killed the marijuana bash. After 12 years, the world's largest weekly pot rally has been stubbed out because of drinking. |
| Nov 9, 2007 |
Prodigious Pot Smuggler Out On Parole Busted for shipping millions of dollars worth of pot through Saskatchewan's borders, Daren Wayne Smith is now on parole from his six-year prison sentence imposed last year -- but not for much longer if the Crown has its way. |
| Nov 10, 2007 |
Worker's Rights Violated, Judge Rules A former pipeline worker made a good decision when he asked to have a marijuana possession charge from Kirkland Lake transferred to Kingston's Ontario Court of Justice. |
| Nov 10, 2007 |
Pot Search Legal A dreadlocked Toronto human rights worker has lost a "test case" against Canadian border officials after claiming he was targeted for a Pearson airport drug search because of his hairstyle. |
| Nov 11, 2007 |
'Legalize It, Control It And Tax The Livin' Hell Out Of It Larry Campbell has seen the effects of Canada's marijuana prohibition laws first-hand, as an RCMP drug officer for eight years and as chief coroner of B.C. before his election as mayor of Vancouver in 2002. He figures the drug should be legalized, controlled -- and taxed like tobacco. |
| Nov 11, 2007 |
'Marijuana Is an Addictive Drug' Andy Ivens The Province Sgt. Scott Rintoul mans the RCMP's drug-awareness bureau in B.C. Well-acquainted with the arguments for legalizing marijuana, he challenges the legal-pot advocates to consider one important point -- our children. |
| Nov 12, 2007 |
Pot Trade Slows "It's very simple," said Stephen Easton, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C. "Canadian marijuana production costs are met in Canadian dollars, and those are worth more now." |
| Nov 12, 2007 |
Legalize Pot, a Key Drug Fuelling Gang Wars Policy of Prohibition Only Helps Organized Crime Pocket the Profits From a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry ...The rise of gangs in this province is due primarily to the immense profits to be had from B.C. bud. |
| Nov 12, 2007 |
Trustee In Drug Bust Plans To Attend Board Meeting A Turtle River School Division trustee facing drug charges said he will attend Tuesday evening's board meeting, to prevent fellow trustees from kicking him off the school board. |
| Nov 15, 2007 |
Toking Your Way To Success So last week a swiss study was published saying teens who use only cannabis appear to function better than those who also use tobacco, and are more socially driven and have no more psychosocial problems than those who abstain from both substances. |
| Nov 15, 2007 |
Pot Activists Hail Ruling (Invalid law) Marijuana activists are hailing a recent court ruling as the beginning of the end of Canada's prohibition on pot, but the Crown dismisses the decision as non-binding. A trial judge in Oshawa, Ont., threw out charges of simple possession of marijuana against three young men on Oct. 19, relying on a previous court ruling that found Canada's pot law unconstitutional. In making his decision, Judge Norman Edmondson cited a decision last July by a fellow judge of the Ontario Court of Justice. [ See: <a href="http://thepotlawhasfallen.ca/" target="_blank">http://thepotlawhasfallen.ca/</a>, especially if you have been charged with possession of cannabis ] |
| Nov 16, 2007 |
Alberta Seeks New Use For Hemp A new two-year, $2.25-million project hopes to find ways to blend Albertagrown hemp fibres with locally produced plastics to create more sustainable materials. |
| Nov 17, 2007 |
The Dangers of Keeping Pot Illegal The benefits to Canada's justice system of legalizing marijuana would be immediate. Police would have more time to investigate real crime, including cracking down on harder drugs. The courts wouldn't be bogged down by trivial pot charges. Jail cells could be reserved for actual criminals. |
| Nov 21, 2007 |
District Explores Hemp Production Diversity is a key component in any economy and the District of 100 Mile House is exploring the cultivation of industrial hemp as a potential source of economic development. |
| Nov 21, 2007 |
Drug Law Will Fill Jails, Expert Warns B.C.'s already crowded jails will need to squeeze in another 700 marijuana growers per year if new mandatory sentences are enacted, an analysis of sentencing figures suggests. "You basically need a new prison to facilitate that," said Darryl Plecas, a criminologist at the University College of the Fraser Valley who studies marijuana sentencing. "You're going to have hundreds, if not thousands, of people going to jail who aren't going now." |