Current Affairs (2007) -
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| Dec 11, 2007 |
Students Learn Drug Lesson Yesterday, La Verendrye School students learned a whole lot about illegal drugs. Their instructor, RCMP Const. Dave Higgs, talked to a room filled with Grade 7 and 8 students in an information session on common street drugs. Before starting, Higgs warned students as an RCMP officer, he can't and won't turn a deaf ear on anyone's admission of guilt, as the substances he was talking about are illegal in this country. [Shouldn't doctors discuss drugs?] |
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| Dec 11, 2007 |
Common Sense When I hear proponents for marihuana legalization expressing their view I can't help but consider that our one licit substance, alcohol creates more harms than all other drugs combined. So legalization of marihuana is supposed to work? I think not. But you decide. |
| Dec 11, 2007 |
Marijuana Activists Will Gather At MP Offices An exciting new grass-roots political campaign is beginning to grow across Canada. In response to the Americanization of Canadian drug policy by the Conservative Party of Canada, ordinary Canadians are standing up to ask a simple question: Why? On November 20th, 2007 the Conservative government of Canada introduced Bill C-26, imposing mandatory minimum jail sentences for cannabis ( marijuana ) offences in an attempt to appear "tough" on crime. |
| Dec 12, 2007 |
Grow Op Storage Costing Thousands Calgary police are taking steps to get rid of eight years' worth of seized marijuana grow operation equipment they have been paying to store in an Edmonton warehouse -- a move that could have a ripple effect for police services across the country. |
| Dec 12, 2007 |
BC:
Drug Laws Draconian Victoria - Protesters are set to gather Monday, December 17, at MP offices in Victoria and across Canada to speak out against proposed drug laws they say are draconian and ineffective. The Conservatives' Bill C-26 would entrench the criminalization of cannabis and require minimum mandatory prison terms for people caught with pot. |
| Dec 13, 2007 |
Compassion Pleaded After Drugs Convictions Pete Young said he wasn't trying to hide anything -- he was offering marijuana from a downtown location to ease people's pain. He said doctors knew. So did the police. |
| Dec 13, 2007 |
Grow Ops Are For Grown-ups o whom it may concern, I am writing to say how outraged I am after reading this news item last Monday. As a mother of three, I can understand how parents across the country must feel. While it seems that we live in a fairly liberal society where we respect the rights of our children, there are some things that should remain sacred. No matter how many reasons parents might give, there is just no excuse for letting toddlers run a large-scale marijuana grow op. |
| Dec 14, 2007 |
Activist To Bring Dope To His MP PORT ALBERNI -- A well-known Vancouver Island pot activist will be huffing and puffing outside his local MP's office at high noon Monday. "I would bring a big pot plant, but it's too cold out," said Michael Mann. |
| Dec 14, 2007 |
Police Pull Children From Abby Grow-Op Police officers were conducting the search warrant in the 3200 block of Firhill Drive, but while investigating a marijuana grow operation, they became concerned about the levels of carbon monoxide. The carbon monoxide levels were found to be in excess of 100 parts per million [the hazard increases dramatically above 30 ppm, according to experts]. Police also found three children under the age of 12 in the home, who are now under the care of non-parental family members. |
| Dec 15, 2007 |
Jail Too Stiff For Growers? A plan to put more pot growers behind bars has a Burnaby activist smoking mad. Adam Scriven said a handful of people will gather outside Burnaby-New Westminster MP Peter Julian's office Monday, part of a nationwide day of protest against mandatory jail sentences proposed by the Conservative government. |
| Dec 15, 2007 |
BC Hydro Takes Tough Stand On Marijuana Growing BC Hydro and the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General announced Friday the power company is partnering with CrimeStoppers to encourage people to report suspected grow operations. With the new partnership, BC Hydro's energy diversion investigators will now be able to obtain the addresses of suspected growing operations reported to the CrimeStoppers' Tip Line. |
| Dec 16, 2007 |
NS:
Justice Unit Holds Power To Evict Guilty or not, people suspected of certain crimes are being turfed from their homes across the province. So far, occupants of 23 homes, apartments or trailers have been evicted since the summer, when a new division of the Justice Department began to fully enforce the new provincial Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act. Proclaimed Jan. 7, the act is intended to target suspected drug use and sales, prostitution, illegal gaming, bootlegging or child sexual abuse. |
| Dec 17, 2007 |
Canadian National Demonstration Against Bill C-26 <div align="center"><img src="http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v164/33/32/627761996/n627761996_480861_9881.jpg" /></div> <blockquote>ALSO: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjwpo1HCRhw" target="_blank"> Criminal lawyer Kirk Tousaw explains why the proposed changes to Canada's marijuana laws are bad for the entire country, and how you can help to stop them</a></blockquote> |
| Dec 18, 2007 |
AB:
Pot Bill Generates Buzz Calgary - "Legalize, Regulate and Educate," was the message protesters were trying to send to politicians yesterday during a pro-marijuana rally in front of Stephen Harper's constituency office. |
| Dec 18, 2007 |
BC
Activists Blast Federal Anti-Drug Bill Burnaby -A string of demonstrations at MPs' offices saw promarijuana supporters handing out information leaflets at Burnaby MP Peter Julian's constituency office yesterday. The federal government's proposed Bill C- 26, which was introduced last month is nothing more than marijuana prohibition, according to organizer Adam Scriver. |
| Dec 18, 2007 |
Dad Puts Marijuana-Smoking Son's Wii Gift On E-Bay Online debates over parenting skills and marijuana legalization have been sparked by a Waterloo man who put his son's Christmas gift for sale on e-Bay after he caught the 15-year-old smoking marijuana. The man, who goes by the e-Bay user name "k_lid" claimed on the auction site that he spent weeks scouring stores in order to buy Guitar Hero III for his son, Isaac, to play on his Nintendo Wii. After finally scoring a copy of the game, the elementary school teacher came home one day to find his son smoking marijuana in his backyard with two friends. |
| Dec 18, 2007 |
MS Sufferer Wins Right to Use Pot Vapourizer Pam Edgar has won her fight to have the provincial government pay for a device she says is needed for her to use marijuana to ease symptoms of multiple sclerosis. The government, which earlier refused to pay for a $200 marijuana vapourizer, has been forced to reverse its decision following the unanimous decision of an appeal tribunal. |
| Dec 18, 2007 |
Tip Line Aims To Target Grow-ops B.C. Hydro and Crime Stoppers have announced a new enforcement tool that they hope will encourage people to report suspected marijuana growing operations. Addresses of suspected illegal drug operations reported to the Crime Stoppers tip line can be forwarded to energy diversion investigators with B.C. Hydro. Hydro investigators will be able to search for evidence of electricity theft. |
| Dec 18, 2007 |
Illegal Drug Industry Booming With Potent New Products: Budder, an inhaled cannabis derivative believed to have emerged in Vancouver in 2004, has THC levels ranging from 82 per cent to 99.6 per cent, much more potent than smoked marijuana. THC ( tetrahydrocannabinol ) is the psychoactive substance in the cannabis plant. |
| Dec 18, 2007 |
AB:
'Cannabis Is the Least of Our Problems' Lethbridge - A pro-marijuana group took its protest to Lethbridge streets Monday. Warmly-dressed protesters rallied in front of MP Rick Casson's office, after parading their signs through the city centre. They were opposing the Conservative government's plans for compulsory jail terms for people selling street drugs. |