Current Affairs (2008) -
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| Aug 18, 2008 |
Legislation Out Of Joint Ryan Vander Hoek hopes lighting a joint will fire up Edmonton's cannabis community. The 22-year-old and his so-called Sunshine and Grass crew were at Louise McKinney Park yesterday, getting high and having fun. The eight-hour cannabis festival, which was expected to draw up to 150 pot smokers, featured live music, free munchies and pot-related competitions - such as creative bong-making and fastest joint-smoking. |
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| Aug 20, 2008 |
Is Society Benefiting From The War On Pot? By all accounts, Mike McCormick minded his own business and never hurt another soul. He lived off the land, hunting, digging clams and cutting his own firewood. And he grew pot. Lots and lots of pot. In fact, when police stumbled across McCormick's shack in the woods behind his house, there were 243 plants growing inside it. ...Other than lawyers, who benefits from criminalizing pot smokers? |
| Aug 21, 2008 |
Hemp: The New Choice For Farmers - And It's Legal While marijuana might be the obvious, illegal cannabis cash crop, the drug's non-munchie-inducing cousin, hemp, could be a viable choice for local farmers. John Baker, president and founder of Stonehedge Bio-Resources Inc., said Eastern Ontario has the ideal climate and soil to grow hemp crops |
| Aug 22, 2008 |
BC:
Workers To Face Drug Tests A new drug-and-alcohol policy that requires unionized construction workers in B.C. to be tested before being hired and after they've been involved in an accident likely won't withstand a legal or human-rights challenge, legal experts said yesterday. |
| Aug 24, 2008 |
Police Stop 'Pretty Unusual' For Marijuana Exemptee Derek Pedro's first trip to Hempfest was a "nerve wracking" one. He says Ontario Provincial Police asked him and Alison Myrden, both federal medical marijuana exemptees, to get out of their truck during a spot check Wednesday. |
| Aug 24, 2008 |
Hempfest considers move to new site Hempfest could move to a new location with several entry roads after a second consecutive year of stepped-up police enforcement. Police stopped more than 500 vehicles and handed out dozens of charges during 12-hour daily vehicle checks Wednesday to Saturday north of Echo Bay. |
| Aug 25, 2008 |
Toronto Lawyer Acquitted Of Drug Charges Veteran defence lawyer Edmund Schofield is free of drug trafficking charges after a federal prosecutor chose not to present evidence at the 74-year-old former FBI agent's trial. |
| Aug 27, 2008 |
Alberta's Reefer Madness Hitting New Highs As Albertans go, they outnumber Catholics, smokers, Edmontonians, voters and overweight folk -- though a massive intake of potato chips might soon balance out the latter. They're pot smokers, and a new study by Health Canada shows a staggering -- and presumably peckish -- 45.3% of Albertans have inhaled marijuana, with 34.7% returning for a regular hit of weed |
| Aug 27, 2008 |
B.C.'s Crime Rate Hits 30-Year Low The reported crime rate in B.C. is at a 30-year low, according to statistics released Tuesday by the provincial government. ...By comparison, B.C.'s drug crime rates -- which have consistently been the highest in Canada since the 1980s -- increased in 2007, due largely to a spike in possession of cannabis offences. |
| Aug 27, 2008 |
Alberta's Reefer Madness Hitting New Highs s Albertans go, they outnumber Catholics, smokers, Edmontonians, voters and overweight folk -- though a massive intake of potato chips might soon balance out the latter. They're pot smokers, and a new study by Health Canada shows a staggering -- and presumably peckish -- 45.3% of Albertans have inhaled marijuana, with 34.7% returning for a regular hit of weed. |
| Aug 28, 2008 |
Stoning Of A Crusader NOW readers know Matt Mernagh as that indomitable spirit behind the megaphone at medpot rallies in Yonge-Dundas Square. Bright lights, big city. That's Mernagh. .....On Saturday August 16, Mernagh was arrested, along with a roommate, and charged with possession of marijuana, possession for the purposes of trafficking and production of marijuana. |
| Aug 29, 2008 |
Cannabis Crusader Calls On Whitehorse But the marijuana activist didn't bring any weed to the Yukon. "Typically I let the locals smoke me up," said the 50-year-old leader of BC's Marijuana Party. "That way, I can experience what you're smoking here." It's Emery's first time championing cannabis in the territory. .....And Whitehorse RCMP is worried. |
| Sep 2, 2008 |
PUB LTE: Marijuana Laws Have No Validity Re: "<a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v08/n782/a07.html " target="_blank">Technical breech</a>" of pot law not worth prosecuting: Crown "There is nothing constitutionally wrong with the CDSA," Conlan said. Basically, Conlan is admitting that the only thing keeping marijuana prohibition alive is a legal technicality, and not any real validity in the law itself. "It is still valid because the government says it is valid" is not acceptable. Like a parent saying "Because I said so!" when a child asks "why". |
| Sep 3, 2008 |
BC:
Houston Cops Accused of Brutality After pulling the man over, several other RCMP patrol cars arrived on scene and an unidentified Houston RCMP officer allegedly began conducting a field sobriety test on the assertion of smelling alcohol and marijuana. ...Inside the Houston detachment, it is alleged the man was attacked again by an undisclosed number of officers as he was escorted to a cell. |
| Sep 3, 2008 |
Growing Flowers, You Say? A Likely Story Likely residents were divided on whether the police raids had made their community a better place to live. Likely Chamber of Commerce spokesman Robin Hood said yesterday the grow ops fed an underground economy and boosted property values in a town hit hard by a slowdown in logging and mining. "It did not bother me," he said in an interview. .... But High Country Inn owner Darlene Biggs, who has three of her eight grandchildren living in the village, said she was pleased to see the grow ops closed down. "A lot of us have been complaining for a while and calling the police," she said. |
| Sep 3, 2008 |
'Say No' To Canine Cannabis - Vet Keep your dogs away from pot. That's the message to all pet owners from an emergency veterinarian..... Symptoms of an affected dog include sleepiness, extreme sensitivity to light and motion, low heart rate, low blood pressure and the dog urinating on itself, or dribbling urine. |
| Sep 3, 2008 |
Question Numbers Crime is down across B.C. ...n addition, drug statistics are not included in the crime numbers as they are compiled separately, a practice that doesn't seem to make sense as an overwhelming number of police man hours are used to wage the war on drugs. If police officers across B.C. are spending voluminous hours cracking down on marijuana grow-operations, crack shacks and heroin shipments, should that data not also factor into the crime-rate numbers? |
| Sep 4, 2008 |
Relight Those Nice Dreams <strong>Cheech & Chong Reprise Their Hit '70s Comedy Act In Ottawa</strong> Nearly 25 years after their breakup, the wildly popular comedy team of the 1970s is back to "Light Up Canada." And, after that, they're going to blaze up America too. "Our performance in Ottawa is actually going to be the first time that we've done Born in East L.A. together," says Cheech, calling from Hawaii, of the comedy team's hit parody of a Bruce Springsteen original. "Condoleezza Rice called us and said, 'You know, I'm having no luck with the Palestinians and the Israelites and I need to get somebody together before my reign is out here.' Ottawa - you're the first guys." |
| Sep 5, 2008 |
Federal Election Could Be Going To Pot Legalizing The Use Of Marijuana Will Be An Election Issue If Proponents Across Canada Listen To Neil Magnuson. .... In Lethbridge as part of the "2008 Freedom Tour" on Thursday, the long-time activist said three of the four national parties have spoken out in favour of decriminalizing the recreational drug. |
| Sep 9, 2008 |
District Orders Bong Store Shut During its brief existence the store had posters with marijuana leaves on its front windows. Key chains that said "legalize" on top of marijuana leaves were on sale. Mayor Gord Robson told council at the Monday council meeting that he had received "a number" of complaints about the store's existence. |