Current Affairs (2008) -
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| Mar 28, 2008 |
Legalize All Drugs: Former Police Officer After 28 years on the Vancouver police force, Tony Smith believes the "war on drugs" is creating far more problems than it's solving. During a 45-minute speech at the Alberta Harm Reduction Conference on Thursday, Smith argued legalizing all drugs would lower crime, and take control of the drug industry out of the hands of dangerous criminals. |
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| Mar 28, 2008 |
Abstinence Not The Only Way Off Drugs An alternative to abstinence is gaining acceptance among people working with those who struggle with drug addiction. ..For example, a client may come to detox to stop smoking crack cocaine, but intends on smoking marijuana when he gets out because a gradual detox approach is what makes sense to them. |
| Mar 30, 2008 |
An Apprentice Drug Runner -- In Grade 9 'People Are So Desperate For Money That They'll Put Drugs In A Child's Hand' |
| Mar 31, 2008 |
Former Jail Guard Pleads Guilty A former jail guard has pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe to smuggle marijuana into Barton Street jail. |
| Mar 31, 2008 |
Ontario Makes Case For Random Police Questioning he Supreme Court is expected to revisit a rule it established 11 years ago that said evidence obtained by police when people are forced to incriminate themselves after their Charter rights have been violated may not be used against them in a trial. The April 24 hearing stems from an appeal filed by Donnohue Grant, who was convicted of gun possession charges in 2004. |
| Mar 31, 2008 |
Marc Emery Should Not Be Extradited This editorial board has more than once presented its strongest moral case for the Canadian government to block the extradition of Marc Emery, the West Coast marijuana advocate who faces a possible life sentence south of the border for operating a mail-order seed business out of his Vancouver headquarters. It is our view that the differences in the two countries' handling of seed vendors make extraditing Emery a shameful abdication of judgment by the Canadian authorities. |
| Apr 2, 2008 |
Hemp Farming, The Other Cash Crop It's been three long years of research, meetings, planning and trials and this is the year to prove it's all been worthwhile. The District of 100 Mile House has been actively pursuing hemp farming, a project identified by the Cariboo-Chilcotin Beetle Action Committee as a possible strategy for economic diversification. |
| Apr 3, 2008 |
Interview By Matt Mernagh With Pot Seed Breeder Dan My original quest to speak with Konstantin amongst cannabis community contacts turned up all the wrong leads. His lawyer hooked me up. |
| Apr 3, 2008 |
Homegrown Bailout? There's a massive cloud of cannabis confusion hovering around Marc Emery's extradition case now that the deal between the Prince of Pot and U.S. prosecutors has hit the skids. |
| Apr 3, 2008 |
Surrey Fire Plan Smokes Out Area Grow-ops In a nutshell, his research team works on the premise that because the B.C. grow-op problem is so large, there's not nearly enough capacity by police or the courts to deal with it. .. "The justice system is inept at dealing with this problem so, instead, we've created a system of major disruptions to a grow-operators' business," Plecas explains. "That's the program I outlined at Oxford." Officially it's known as the Electrical Fire Safety Initiative, primarily because a house containing a grow-op is 29 times more likely to catch fire than a regular house, Plecas says. |
| Apr 3, 2008 |
Legalize By 2010 Here's a crazy idea that may sound a bit absurd, but follow me through on this: Cannabis will be legalized in the United States of America by 2010. |
| Apr 4, 2008 |
Hemp Business 'Possibly Targeted' After four separate incidences of vandalism in March, the owner of downtown Sechelt's 420 Hemp Shop is considering closing his shop for good. |
| Apr 10, 2008 |
One-Quarter of Students Smoking Up During School One in four Nanaimo secondary students is using marijuana while at school. That's one of the findings of the second annual Safe Schools Survey conducted in Nanaimo secondary schools in February 2007. Almost 5,000 students from Grades 8-12 took the survey. |
| Apr 10, 2008 |
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Man Convicted in Drug Case Plans to Appeal REGINA -- While he awaits sentencing in Saskatchewan's largest marijuana grow-op bust, Lawrence Hubert Agecoutay has been busy laying the groundwork for his appeal. |
| Apr 14, 2008 |
Medical Pot Users On Hook For $500,000 OTTAWA -- Medical marijuana users are on the hook for more than $500,000 in unpaid bills for government-certified weed, raising questions about the effectiveness of Health Canada's troubled dope program |
| Apr 15, 2008 |
Resident Shaken by Police Raid Oakville landscaper Brock Morris was left shaken and shaking his head after the Halton police raided his home at gunpoint, Friday, in search of a marijuana grow house operation. The police walked away empty handed from the raid, leaving Morris and his family bewildered and shaken. |
| Apr 15, 2008 |
Midlife Toking on the Rise An increasing number of adults - particularly those in their 30s and 40s - are using marijuana, according to a new Ontario-wide report that reflects what experts describe as a growing cross-country trend. |
| Apr 15, 2008 |
Debate Over Steve Walton Presentation This past week, I received a barrage of emails in response to the story on Steve Walton's presentation to BCHS students. I was shocked and disappointed by what they had to say. One emailer from Calgary said that Walton was misleading young people on the dangers of using marijuana. He claimed that despite the lies of someone like Walton, that young people will only be able to learn the truth through experiencing the drug. "The lies do much more harm than good," he said. |
| Apr 15, 2008 |
Who'll Grow the Weed, Man? OTTAWA -- Health Canada is looking for someone to grow its weed. The department served notice yesterday it will soon invite firms to bid on a contract to cultivate and distribute medical marijuana, which Prairie Plant Systems Inc. of Flin Flon, Man., is now doing |
| Apr 18, 2008 |
Team Shuts Down 200 Pot Farms The municipal team does not arrest growers, but forces them to move on. Langley's Safety Inspection Team has been moving at a faster pace than anyone expected in the past year. On Tuesday, Township Mayor Kurt Alberts told the Chamber of Commerce that the teams have shut down 217 marijuana grow operations. "That's three to five per week," Alberts said. |