Current Affairs (2008) -
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| Nov 17, 2008 |
Pair To Fight Pot Convictions And Bail Terms The hemp-happy founders of the Church of the Universe are scheduled to fight their convictions and bail conditions in the Ontario Court of Appeal today. Rev. Michael Baldasaro and co-founder Rev. Walter Tucker were found guilty last November of multiple counts of trafficking marijuana and sentenced to two years and 12 months respectively. The pair also lost their Barton Street church because it was ruled an "offence-related property." |
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| Nov 19, 2008 |
City Faces Lawsuit Over Safety Inspection Abbotsford's Public Safety Inspection Team, which targets illegal marijuana grow operations, is under fire in the courts again. An Abbotsford couple is suing the City of Abbotsford in B.C. Supreme Court, saying the safety inspection team conducted an illegal search of their home. |
| Nov 19, 2008 |
N Van Woman Fights Seizure Of Grow-Op Home North Vancouver woman, a 58-year-old former realtor, has appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada to halt the forfeiture of the North Vancouver house she used as a marijuana growing and selling business, generating "over $100,000 a year" in income according to the B.C. Court of Appeal. Craig is one of three Canadians challenging federal drug laws that have been increasingly used to seize homes containing grow-ops. |
| Nov 19, 2008 |
Appeal Date Set For Pot Priests Church of the Universe co-founders Michael Baldasaro and Walter Tucker are hoping the date of their next court appearance is a sign of success. They were told earlier this week the Ontario Court of Appeal will hear the appeals on their marijuana trafficking convictions and sentences next year on April 20. |
| Nov 20, 2008 |
Defelice Released From Prison Pending Appeal After being sentenced to one year in prison on October 14, Holy Smoke Culture Shop co-owner Paul DeFelice has been released from Kamloops Regional Correction Centre since October 22, pending an appeal on his conviction. |
| Nov 20, 2008 |
Quantity Of Medical Pot At Home Is Being Looked Into A Port Coquitlam home was broken into Thursday afternoon in an apparent grow rip attempt.... The home is a licensed medicinal marijuana operation but Gresiuk said the regulations are stringent on how many plants can be grown. She said investigators would be checking to make sure those rules had been followed. |
| Nov 20, 2008 |
Smoke Clears For Hempyz Hempyz is legitimate. After refusing the pot plant novelty store a business licence, Langley City has done an about-face. "I went to City Hall on Nov. 6 to dispute the $100 per day fines [for operating a business without a licence] and staff asked me if I would like to fill out a business license," said Hempyz owner Randy Caine. |
| Nov 21, 2008 |
Pot Shop May Soon Close After moving to a new location and undergoing renovations, a long-time business finds it's unable to get a business licence from the City of New Westminster. The delay in getting the licence is because the store, Sinn and Sativa Fashions at 655 Front St., sells what the city describes as drug paraphernalia-rolling papers, pipes and bongs. |
| Nov 21, 2008 |
Drug Issues Keep Police, Resource Providers Busy Const. Gary O'Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman, said police are kept busy dealing with issues that arise from the use and trade of legal and illegal drugs, as well as the related homelessness, addiction and petty crime issues. "A significant amount of our time is dealing with drug issues," he said. [The answer seems so obvious] |
| Nov 22, 2008 |
Killer Pothead Off To Jail A "chronic" pot smoker who was impaired on marijuana when he slammed into an oncoming Jeep, killing two people and injuring two others, was sent to prison yesterday. It is the second time James McIlwrick, 36, has been put behind bars for the deadly 2003 crash near Sherwood Park and family of a victim say it is a good thing the killer driver is finally having to pay for his crime. They forgot to mention <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v08/n881/a05.html">Court earlier heard he had also been using prescription medications including Paxil, Zyprexa and Ativan</a>, but Ross rejected suggestions that they played a role in the crash. |
| Nov 22, 2008 |
Kindred Apathy For T.O. Dope Cafe The Kindred Cafe - busted in a drug raid Thursday evening - has been particularly popular with registered medical marijuana users, those actually issued with Health Canada cards designating their status. |
| Nov 22, 2008 |
Police Target Pot-friendly 'Yongesterdam' Police flooded the burgeoning counterculture neighbourhood known as Yongesterdam late on Thursday, raiding an openly marijuana-friendly cafe after undercover officers allegedly purchased a mug of hot chocolate and snacks laced with drugs. |
| Nov 23, 2008 |
Budding Wealth in the Weed Eric Nash can barely contain his excitement waiting to hear from Health Canada whether he can start growing marijuana for 250 patients now that the Federal Court of Appeal has struck down the government's monopoly on supplying medical marijuana. |
| Nov 24, 2008 |
Pot Cafe Owner To Turn Himself In Medical Marijuana Supporters To Rally Dominic Cramer, owner of the coffee shop raided by Toronto police last week on suspicion of marijuana trafficking, will turn himself in at 52 Division this evening, says his lawyer, Alan Young..."To the best of my knowledge it's a case about edibles that allegedly involved marijuana," Young said. |
| Nov 25, 2008 |
City Changes Course On Hemp Bylaw Langley City council is looking to repeal a 1995 bylaw prohibiting stores from selling hemp products. It turns out that several stores in the downtown have been carrying hemp items for years, from beauty products, clothing to hand cream and soap. Hemp beer is even sold in the provincially-run B.C. Liquor stores. "Back then, we thought hemp was marijuana," said City Councillor Gayle Martin. She has been on council 18 years. "Now we know there is a difference between the legal and illegal stuff." |
| Nov 25, 2008 |
Kindred Pot Gathering A small crowd of pot activists lit up on the steps of Old City Hall yesterday morning to protest against last week's police raid on the Kindred Cafe, a local hangout for medicinal and recreational marijuana smokers. |
| Nov 26, 2008 |
Mayor's Marijuana Work Still An Issue For Media Mayor elect Brian Taylor said he's aware and sensitive to the fact that many residents are opposed to his marijuana advocacy and promised to keep his two lives separate. "I've made some concessions in terms of my civil rights," he said, in an interview. "But I'm not going to give up my right to campaign against marijuana prohibition." |
| Nov 27, 2008 |
Detective's Return To Scene A Surprise Cook, a member of Rykhoff's team, is accused of stealing 15 bricks of the 102 packages of suspected cocaine discovered hidden inside boxes of mangoes in a courier delivery truck on Nov. 16, 2005. |
| Nov 27, 2008 |
Don't Let Your Kids Go To Pot The following is part of a series of informational articles aimed at increasing public awareness about the services provided by the Kamloops Victim Services unit....There is plenty of controversy regarding the dangers of using marijuana. It has been recreationally used for only about the last 40 years and, as a result, there is not much research as to the long-term dangers associated with its use. |
| Nov 28, 2008 |
The Site Where Adults Don't Go EDMONTON - It's late Tuesday night and two teenage boys are comparing bongs in Nexopia's drugs forum. "Nice collection, man," writes one, referring to a photo of the colourfully painted glass pipes, used to smoke marijuana. For a website targeted towards youth, Nexopia is staggeringly explicit. |