Current Affairs (2008) -
Chronological (386 items)
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| Jul 29, 2008 |
Restaurateur Goes to Court Over Human Rights Ruling o A Burlington restaurant owner is going to court to overturn a human rights complaint over his refusal to allow a patron with a medical marijuana licence to smoke on his property. |
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| Jul 31, 2008 |
AB:
Police Chief Apologizes To Family For Botched Raid After nearly eight years, the longest running complaint against the Calgary Police Service has ended with a rare public apology from the chief to a family who was the victim of a botched drug raid. |
| Jul 31, 2008 |
Outlaw Compassion Paul Spendlove, media relations officer for Health Canada, says no matter what benefits they may provide to the sick, "Compassion clubs are unregulated and have always operated outside Canadian laws. These clubs have no legal authority to provide access or to produce and distribute marijuana." |
| Aug 3, 2008 |
Dumb Drug Policies Enrich Criminals The net result of our irrational drug policies is that we enrich the criminals and criminalize ordinary citizens. We control tobacco and alcohol far more effectively than we control any illegal drugs. If those are the results we want, these policies are perfect. |
| Aug 5, 2008 |
Right to Puff Sparks Tiff The complaint states that the government has failed to "amend legislation to accommodate licensed medical marijuana users" because the club's liquor licence could be suspended if someone was caught smoking marijuana on the premises -- even if they have a medicinal licence. |
| Aug 6, 2008 |
St-Isidore Seed Dealer Experimenting With Hemp Marc Bercier grows hemp on the lower part of a field behind his St-Isidore seed cleaning facility. He's testing 100 varieties and hopes to soon find the right one to produce vegetable oil and market it as a Canadian substitute for virgin olive oil. "I'm anti-multinationals," Bercier says, standing inside a container housing his new oil press. |
| Aug 7, 2008 |
New Law Passes First Test In Saint John Courtroom SAINT JOHN - A 33-year-old Saint John man is the first in New Brunswick to be convicted for drug-impaired driving based on new investigative tools provided by federal legislation. Ralph Daniel Craig, a Dilaudid addict, was subjected to new drug detection tests by police after rear-ending another vehicle and "failed miserably," Crown prosecutor Chris Titus told provincial court. Craig was "clearly impaired by drugs," Titus said. |
| Aug 8, 2008 |
Futile Drug War Can't Defeat Human Nature "Prohibition is not a failure, it's a self-perpetuating policy disaster," he says. And it will remain so, well beyond the foreseeable future. |
| Aug 8, 2008 |
Grow-Ops Threat To Environment Outdoor grow-ops can pose an environmental hazard, Martherus said, because of the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides. 1) The amount of fertilzer from cannabis production is not at levels farmers use. 2) Regulation and control instead of prohibition would alleviate the problem. |
| Aug 9, 2008 |
Drug Trafficker Has Big Heart AMHERST - A drug trafficker who believes he's found the cure for cancer in marijuana wants his $2,000 fine to go to a good cause. "Since I am paying this fine for the heinous crime of saving lives, I think I should have a say as to where the money goes," Rick Simpson said in a July 27 letter sent to officials at the Justice Centre in Amherst. Mr. Simpson made the letter public Friday. |
| Aug 11, 2008 |
Loopholes Need To Be Plugged Provincial court Judge Peder Gulbransen threw out the case against David Razah Hood, who was stopped by police when he was driving in a suspicious manner past an alleged grow-op house they were staking out. Hood's car reeked of burnt marijuana, so police arrested him. The bags of starter pot plants were in the back seat. Hood was then charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. |
| Aug 11, 2008 |
Chong 'Looking For People To Talk To' You might think that three decades after Tommy Chong pioneered the stoner movie genre with Cheech Marin in Up in Smoke, Canada's Prince of Pot would be tired of, pardon the pun, rehashing his reputation as a famous pothead. "No, not at all. I'm not tired of talking, period," laughs the Edmonton-born cannabis comic, still smokin' after all these years. "When you get to my age, man, you look for people to talk to." |
| Aug 11, 2008 |
Stoner Flicks Have Slowly Seeped Into Modern Culture With pot-friendly flicks often scoring huge at the box office -- and earning bags of pop culture credibility -- stoners are almost mainstream. In honour of pot-action comedy Pineapple Express, we're taking a look at genre-defining stoner flicks. |
| Aug 12, 2008 |
Busted For Holy Smoke BRACEBRIDGE -- A man who claims he is an ordained minister was busted with almost half a kilo of pot yesterday during a traffic stop on Hwy. 11 near Bracebridge. "Rev." Michel Nathier, 53, of the Church of the Universe, admitted he was smoking a joint when the OPP officer pulled him over but said he was committing a holy act. |
| Aug 13, 2008 |
Technical Breech' Of Pot Law Not Worth Prosecuting: Crown ederal Crown attorney Clayton Conlan withdrew all drug charges Tuesday against a Meaford man who says he uses marijuana medicinally and against the man's wife because prosecuting the charges "would not be in the public interest." |
| Aug 13, 2008 |
Ruling Needed on Vehicle Searches: Judge With the Moncton judiciary split on the legality of a local Mountie's vehicle searches, Judge Irwin Lampert says it's time for New Brunswick's Court of Appeal to rule on the subject. ...He said if police are allowed to search people based on guesses or hunches, it "can too easily mask discriminatory conduct." |
| Aug 15, 2008 |
AB:
Police Say Marijuana Sold To Students At Pizza Parlour William Aberhart High School students could satisfy their munchies with Your Choice Pizza's $3.50 special that got you a slice of pepperoni or cheese pizza and some chips. |
| Aug 16, 2008 |
P.E.I. Pot Is No Small Potatoes: Boston Newspaper Prince Edward Island's Anne isn't the only thing that's green, according to a new article in a Boston alternative newspaper. Writer Alan Earls claims "Pot Edward Island" is a haven for dope growers and inexpensive electricity from Quebec fuels the island's grow-ops. |
| Aug 17, 2008 |
Here's The Secret Every Jury Needs To Know I've got a secret to tell you. It's about jurors. Jurors called for duty on criminal cases have a secret power. It's a secret because in a trial neither the judge nor the lawyers are allowed to tell the jurors this power exists. But it does. It's called "jury nullification." |
| Aug 18, 2008 |
Tories Aim To Force Inmates To Work In Jail "We'd like to see people being required to work if they are in jail. There are too many ways right now for people to avoid that," Mr. Day told CTV's Question Period. |