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| Aug 5, 2005 |
Marc Emery out on bail B.C. Marijuana Party leader Marc Emery has been released from the pre-trial centre in Port Coquitlam after posting $50,000 bail. <h3>Marc Emery, Michelle Rainey, Greg William INFORMATION</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://cannabisculture.com/" target="_blank">Cannabis Culture</a></li> <li><a href="http://bcmarijuanaparty.com/" target="_blank">BC Marijuana Party</a></li> <li><a href="http://pot.tv/" target="_blank">POT-TV</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.mapinc.org/find?196" target="_blank">MAP - Marc Emery</a></li> <li><a href="http://savemarcemery.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> Marc Emery is a Political Prisoner</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/Emery/petition.html" target="_blank">On-Line Petition</a></li> <li><a href="http://freemarc.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Free Marc Emery</a></li> <li><a href="http://norml.ca/" target="_blank">NORML Canada Press Release</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/seattle072905p.html" target="_blank">DEA Press Release</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.simonpole.ca/node/165U" target="_blank">Simon Pole Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.vivelecanada.ca/formletters/index.php/20050803165704598" target="_blank">Vive le Canada </a></li> <li><a href="http://cannabiscoalition.ca/html/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=35"> Add your favourite links or info about EmeryCo. here</a></li> </ul> |
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| Jul 29, 2005 |
BCMP Headquarters Raided ordered by U.S. - Emery & others arrested Police raided a marijuana seed store run by the B.C. Marijuana Party leader in Vancouver Friday, apparently at the request of U.S. authorities in Seattle. At a news conference in Seattle, U.S. authorities announced they've asked for Emery to be extradited to the U.S. to face drug charges. [ Any illusion that Canada is a sovereign nation is now dead and gone] |
| Jul 28, 2005 |
Scrap Canada's Capricious Marijuana Laws In a ruling that highlights the legal inequities of the federal marijuana prohibition, the highest court in the province has struck down a two-year prison sentence that was part of a plea bargain with a man caught growing dope in Saskatchewan. |
| Jul 27, 2005 |
Beleaguered Drug Cop Sued Again $2.4-Million Suit For Assault. Six Colleagues In Squad Charged With 40-Corruption Related Offences |
| Jul 27, 2005 |
CN BC:
Compassion Society Defends Sooke Grow-Op In Court Philippe Lucas, head of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society, will be in at the Western Communities court house tomorrow and Friday for a preliminary trial into a RCMP raid on the compassion society's grow-op in Sooke. [This facility was involved in several research projects and supplies cannabis - much more than the government is doing, without costing taxpayer's a cent. Close the competition down seems to be government strategy] |
| Jul 26, 2005 |
'Football Fields' Of Pot Discovered Police in Northern Ontario have charged a Toronto man after they found marijuana fields stretching "three football fields in length" in what is considered to be one of Canada's largest pot busts. |
| Jul 25, 2005 |
CN ON:
Growing Season Is Here Last year, police seized 104,000 plants across the province and charged 37 people. That number is up significantly from the previous two years, when police seized 78,000 plants in 2003 and 56,000 plants in 2002. In 2000, 89,000 marijuana plants were seized by police and 41 people were charged. |
| Jul 24, 2005 |
Drug Tunnel - Sources Says Conduit Not Just For Pot Three Surrey men who allegedly spent more than a year digging a drug tunnel under the border to the U.S. planned to use it for smuggling ecstacy as well as marijuana, American authorities say. [Tunnels have been around since alcohol prohibition] |
| Jun 14, 2005 |
Medical Marijuana Sub-Standard, Patients Say "What we see is a massive level of distrust with the entire program," says Philippe Lucas of Canadians for Safe Access, an advocacy group for users of medical marijuana. "If they are going to offer it to me, why not offer it so it can work for me, and offer it properly" says Reardon. "Put it in the hands of the master growers - people who do this for a living." |
| Jun 12, 2005 |
PUB LTE: The Potential Of Pot It about time I read that marijuana should be legalized and regulated like alcohol and tobacco. The good reasons included fewer home invasions, far less people growing for profits and less violence in the industry, if it's controlled by government. |
| Jun 11, 2005 |
How To Cheat On A Urine Test EDMONTON - Keeping a job used to be about minding your Ps and Qs. These days, some people are minding their pee. "We're not talking just typical party people. We're talking mothers, fathers, secretaries, grandparents, everybody." |
| Jun 10, 2005 |
CN BC:
Board Denies Pot Party Claims The BCMP is suing the board for barring the party's candidates from participating in local high school sponsored debates. [Students are getting a real lesson in what is and is not democracy] |
| Jun 10, 2005 |
CN QU:
Pot Industry Was An Open Secret Everyone knew or knew of the 11 local farmers arrested on Wednesday during a massive marijuana bust involving three police forces in two countries. In every depanneur, the newspapers were sold out by 8:30 a.m., a store clerk said. With every report that said the smuggling ringleaders intimidated local farmers into handing over plots of land to the marijuana growers, men and women scoffed in disbelief. "It's all exaggerated. They're not the Hells Angels, they're not Al-Qa'ida," said one bar customer, enjoying an afternoon beer. "This is just a nice big story to sell papers." |
| Jun 9, 2005 |
CN BC:
Rival Councillors Agree On Legalizing Pot VANCOUVER - They Say It's Better Than Letting Organized Crime And Dealers Benefit They agree it's better to legalize marijuana than to keep shovelling money into the pockets of organized crime or to let drug dealers monitor the sale and price. [One way or another the neo-cons will get their people running the show in Vancouver so the progress made to date in this bubble of rationality and reason can be stopped before it spreads elsewhere] |
| Jun 9, 2005 |
Pricks Nix Doobs for Sicks his case was an appeal by the always delightful Bush administration of another case involving two sick California women who puffed the MJ; at issue was whether the prosecution of weed smokers under the federal Controlled Substances Act ( when some individual state laws allow medical marijuana ) was, in fact, constitutional. Apparently it is, so take that, sick people! That'll show you, you sick bastards! Looks like being sick isn't so fun after all now, eh? |
| Jun 9, 2005 |
CN BC:
Editorial: Vancouver Mayor Backs Legal Pot Federal government needs to take a hard look at the best way to manage marijuana A City of Vancouver report, with the backing of Mayor Larry Campbell, is calling for the legalization of marijuana -- not just "decriminalization" as proposed by legislation stalled in Parliament. [Larry Campbell is on the Board of Advisors of <a href="http://leap.cc/who/" target="_blank">Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)</a>] |
| Jun 8, 2005 |
Drug Free Zones Pitched For Schools Penalties for possession of illegal drugs in or around secondary schools may double next year with the implementation of Drug Free Zones in 100 Mile. [This idea has no merit anywhere it's been tried, but that never stops a bad idea from spreading further] |
| Jun 5, 2005 |
CN ON:
York Police Target Stores Selling Drug Accessories "Just because certain crimes aren't seen as a threat to public safety, does that mean we should stop enforcing it?" [Through perseverance and diligence, will they ever be able to stomp out cannabis culture?] |
| Jun 2, 2005 |
NB:
Pregnant Woman Gets A Year For Selling Pot A New Brunswick judge has sentenced a pregnant woman to a year in prison, even though she will have to give birth while in jail in August, and also has three other children at home. [Another blow to reason, logic, justice, enlightenment and humanity in general. <a href="http://lynnwood.ca/" target="_blank">FREE LYNN WOOD</a> - donations toward her legal costs can be made through <a href="http://mumm.ca/donation.htm" target="_blank">MUMM</a>, Please help.] |
| Jun 1, 2005 |
CN ARTIC:
Police dismantle drug pipeline to the North ARTIC: Dozens of suspects appeared in court today in connection with the massive dismantling of a criminal ring that trafficked marijuana from Montreal to the Far North. ... Gordon McGregor, the president of the police chief's association of aboriginal communities, said the drug ring has created enormous social problems in the communities affected. "We see high rates of suicide, we see a lot more violence, and we see more lot more situations where weapons are involved," McGregor told reported today. [The northern communities should file a class action suit stating prohibition opens them to greater societal harm, and they need protection against such an unjust law. If there is problems of that magnitude associated with cannabis, than without a supply of non-toxic, less harmful herb , their communities are more susceptible to greater harm and violence from <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v00/n1718/a04.html"> gasoline sniffing</a>, alcohol, and eventually crystal meth, which is easier to smuggle. |