Current Affairs (2008) -
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| Sep 22, 2008 |
ON: Court Ruling May Change Marijuana Laws <strong>There may be no legal prohibition against possession of cannabis in Ontario if a Superior Court judge upholds an earlier finding in an ongoing challenge to the medical marijuana laws. </strong> [This is a federal act, so it should be argued there is no cannabis prohibition anywhere in Canada.] |
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| Sep 27, 2008 |
NS:
Maccan's Marijuana Maverick Enters Race AMHERST - The marijuana maverick is back to take a second crack at becoming MP for Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley. Rick Simpson, the Maccan man who believes he has found the cure for cancer in a marijuana paste he calls hemp oil, said Friday that he filed the necessary paperwork with the riding's returning officer earlier this week. "I'm running to get my message out," Mr. Simpson said. "I want to see lives saved and get the country on its feet and straightened out. Hemp is the answer to all our problems." |
| Sep 29, 2008 |
BC:
Holy Smoke Four' Convicted of Marijuana Trafficking Legalization Fight: Judge shoots down defence arguments in case involving downtown Nelson business; prosecutor says no remorse from four men should lead to a harsh sentence A guilty verdict came down Friday in Nelson Provincial Court for the four men charged with marijuana trafficking out of the Holy Smoke Culture Shop on Baker Street in Nelson. |
| Oct 3, 2008 |
Let Them Smoke Pot The Libertarians, a party in Canada since 1973, believe the less government the better, and they were in Canmore Thursday during Marijuana Week promoting the idea that the government should get out of regulating its use by adults. |
| Oct 3, 2008 |
People With AIDS Forced to Break Law to Ease Pain Although fewer than 3,000 Canadians are licensed to use medical marijuana, it's estimated that between 400,000 and one million people in the country use cannabis as medication. |
| Oct 4, 2008 |
LTE: Pot Smokers Are Uncaring Self-abusers Editor: In response to Travis Erbacher's letter ( The Times, Oct. 1 ), I have this to say: People smoke cannabis to stimulate the brain's emergency production of endorphins, which is triggered by its natural reaction to severe synaptic brain connection damage. |
| Oct 5, 2008 |
No Shortage Of Illegal Pot Groomers VANCOUVER - There's green to be made clipping and trimming the green leaves in British Columbia's marijuana industry. The prospect of tax-free income is driving some people into temporary work as "clippers" for indoor and outdoor grow operations. |
| Oct 7, 2008 |
Students Told Green Party Would Legalize Marijuana The legalization of marijuana, funding for education and the arts were among the issues raised by Fleming College students at an all-candidates debate yesterday. |
| Oct 7, 2008 |
Just Don't Call It Pot Today, Cannasat's stock is stuck at 20=A2, having barely budged since an initial pop - and equally prompt retreat - following its IPO. Even though the company has invested almost $10 million in research and is the only firm in Canada devoted to the development of cannabinoid drugs, it has, in recent months, been preoccupied with scrubbing its profile of any connections to marijuana. It has sold off its interests in cultivating and distributing medical pot. It has pumped up its board with distinguished members of the Canadian medical establishment, and dropped the word marijuana from its lexicon, instead describing its research in terms of specific molecules and chemical reactions in the brain. |
| Oct 9, 2008 |
Laws Gone To Pot A report on marijuana written by a team of world experts suggests countries interested in more rational cannabis laws simply ignore drug treaties and go their own way. "Control regimes that criminalize users are intrusive on privacy, socially divisive and expensive. Thus, it is worth considering alternatives," says the Global Cannabis Commission Report presented in the British House of Lords last week. |
| Oct 9, 2008 |
Drug-Related Convictions Quashed Due To Mountie's Fabrications Nova Scotia's Court of Appeal has quashed drug convictions against a dozen people because an RCMP officer fabricated evidence against them. In a decision released yesterday, the court says none of the convictions can stand because former Mountie Daniel Ryan sold drugs while lying under oath to justify search warrants for the premises of the 12 men who were convicted. |
| Oct 10, 2008 |
Intercepted Calls Talk Of 'Babies' And 'Cutting Stalks' As part Operation Jackpot - a covert investigation of a marijuana growing operation - officers recorded more than 77,000 intercepted conversations. |
| Oct 10, 2008 |
OPP Offer Warning About Marijuana Resin The Ontario Province Police Drug Enforcement Section is warning the public about the dangers of the production of marijuana resin following charges laid in connection an explosion at a duplex in Ingersoll. The production of marijuana resin is achieved by the soaking marijuana in an organic solvent. [This would not happen in a regulated market] |
| Oct 10, 2008 |
The War On Drugs Is A Mess The World Drug Report is crude propaganda. Journalists and politicians who take it at face value contribute to the manipulation of public opinion and the stifling of meaningful debate. And that is unacceptable at a time when Canadian soldiers are fighting and dying in the War on Drugs. |
| Oct 10, 2008 |
Tory Ad Takes Potshot At NDP The radio ad stems from comments Layton made in 2003 to Pot TV, a now defunct Internet site. He called marijuana a "wonderful substance," that Canadians should be able to freely purchase or grow, and perhaps enjoy in their homes or in a cafe. |
| Oct 22, 2008 |
Cops To Keep Eye On Pot-Dealing Cafe Quebec City police warn they will closely monitor the activities of a cafe that plans to sell marijuana. The operators of Montreal's Compassion Club say they will open a second shop today in the provincial capital to respond to growing demand for "medicinal" marijuana. |
| Oct 22, 2008 |
Message Sent Provincial Court Judge Gives Paul Defelice One Year in Jail to Send a Message to Community About Drug Trafficking They argued they provided a necessary service to a town with a reputation for smoking pot, but the sentence handed out to the first of four men found guilty of selling marijuana from their downtown business showed the judge thought the community could do without it. |
| Oct 22, 2008 |
Wonderdrug? The medicinal use of Cannabis goes back around 4 000 years. In 1550 BC, the Ebers Papyrus ( Ancient Egypt ) described the medical uses of marijuana. The Ebers Papyrus is one of the oldest medical documents |
| Oct 24, 2008 |
Appeal Filed In Holy Smoke Case Akka Annis and Paul DeFelice, the two of the Holy Smoke workers sentenced to jail earlier this month, have filed an appeal. |
| Oct 25, 2008 |
Fed Pot Policy Panned ORONTO -- It's a marijuana "monopoly" that deserves to go up in smoke, activists say. Lawyers representing a group of 30 medicinal marijuana users will be in court Monday to fight the federal government's bid to keep control of large-scale medicinal marijuana distribution in Canada. Activists say the government-issued pot is weak. |