Top Stories (2005) -
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| May 31, 2005 |
CN AB:
Krieger To Appeal Conviction Controversial marijuana crusader Grant Krieger has won the right to appeal a trafficking conviction to the Supreme Court of Canada. Krieger, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and uses marijuana to ease his symptoms, is waiting to learn when his case will be heard and expects it will be sometime next year. |
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| May 29, 2005 |
CN ON:
Averse To Pot Laws, Poet Objects In Rhyme A poetic pot activist rhymed out his reasons for battling Canada's marijuana laws at a rally yesterday ... "There's a little poem I've got, that makes a case for pot. Though a poet I am not, I've given this much thought. Is there hard data? A lot. What's pot's greatest danger? Getting caught," |
| May 29, 2005 |
Pardon Me? Canadians Are A Larcenous Lot But There Is A Way To Wipe Your Slate Clean Again Few would ever think of Canada as a country of criminals. But at last count, in fact, three million of us were. Which also means most of us know someone with a criminal record, or that if we were to walk into a roomful of Canadians, one in 10 of them would be known, intimately, by the law. |
| May 27, 2005 |
CN BC:
Hippie Capital Tunes In The Counter-Culture '60s Come Alive In A New Vancouver Museum Display ... The coffee table contains the essentials of the day: a hookah pipe and a stash basket. |
| May 27, 2005 |
CN BC:
Marijuana Party Candidate Claims Company Fired Him The Marijuana party's Shuswap candidate believes he lost his job because of his election attempt. "It's all fun and games until somebody loses a job," |
| May 27, 2005 |
CN ON:
Survey Tells All About Our Kids In addition, one in four students have also tried marijuana. |
| May 26, 2005 |
CN QU:
US Worried About Drugs From Quebec RCMP Officer Cites Trafficking Concerns. Criticizes Force's Closing Of 9 Detachments In Province, Shifting Resources From Border Area |
| May 26, 2005 |
Marijuana For Mutts Cannabis oil helps arthritic dog dig again |
| May 26, 2005 |
CN BC:
Grow-Rip Scares Retirees "My wife was first out because I was still putting on my clothes and she came back hollering to call 9-1-1, because there's a couple guys kicking in the door to the house next door," said the husband. "And they're yelling back saying not to bother because, 'We're police, we're busting a grow-op.' [Is it cops? Is it thugs? It is too difficult to tell the difference between cops and robbers these days when it comes to the war on nature] |
| May 25, 2005 |
CN ON:
Addiction Worker Warns Abuse Is Deadly Ongoing use of marijuana will lead to diseases of the lung such as you get with tobacco because of the high nicotine and THC," said Medulun. (Hotel Dieu Hospital's director of addiction, autism and developmental services) [So according to this addiction "expert", cannabis has nicotine... the proliferation of junk science and fantasy facts makes it is harder to find the truth about any drug, remedy or treatment.] |
| May 24, 2005 |
Skier Tokes Prior To Hitting Slopes While most students in the cafeteria are studying for final exams, James Hillier is figuring out his travel budget for an upcoming skiing competition in the USA. This Langara student specializes in half pipe and skis slope style but Hillier almost always competes under the influence of marijuana. |
| May 24, 2005 |
A Family Affair - Up In Smoke Ken Francis, a lab demonstrator in Langara's photo imaging department and a father of two, said it's irresponsible for parents to smoke pot with their kids. ...But, Corinne Logan, a youth alcohol and drug counselor at Vancouver Coastal Health Addiction Services thinks it's better if kids smoke dope with their parents rather than on the streets, even though she isn't an advocate of parents getting high with their kids. |
| May 24, 2005 |
Mary Jane And Me TV shows where people are smoking marijuana are entertaining for some, but offending to those who say they promote drug use. ..."[The shows are] just reflecting a consensus reality that has emerged over the last 40 or 50 years in North America, that says the use of marijuana is not a serious problem and the worst thing about marijuana are the laws against it," he said. |
| May 24, 2005 |
CN BC:
Marijuana Party Sues Over Freedom Of Speech The B.C. Marijuana Party is suing the Surrey School Board and the City of Abbotsford for targeting the party and its candidates' freedom of speech during the provincial election campaign. [What is most alarming is the diminishing democracy in so-called free countries] |
| May 22, 2005 |
Angel Linked To Grow-Op A Kelowna-area marijuana grow-op bust provides one of the strongest links yet between the Hells Angels and the illegal pot industry, police say. [It's not so obvious that this article is not about the angels that watch over home cannabis gardens, but it soon beciomes apparent that it is just more propaganda from the boys in blue] |
| May 20, 2005 |
CN BC:
Hydroponics Bylaw Gets Regional Support Three Abbotsford resolutions, including one that could force hydroponics retailers to keep records on customers who may be growing marijuana, were accepted at last week's Lower Mainland Municipal Association general meeting. [At what point will people resent their rights and privacy being eroded in order to keep a single plant illegal] |
| May 18, 2005 |
US:
Spy vs. Spy United States - Proposed legislation would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, forcing all Americans to become foot soldiers in the war on drugs. Failure to do so would be a crime punishable by a mandatory minimum two-year prison sentence, and a maximum sentence of 10 years. [If Canadians do not stand up now, this is a glimpse of where we are heading] |
| May 17, 2005 |
Police Must Reinstate Drug-Addicted Officer A drug-addicted Toronto police officer is being allowed to keep his job. Mr. Kelly, an undercover drug squad officer with an otherwise perfect record, was fired last fall after becoming addicted to cocaine. [If only all coke addicts were so lucky] |
| May 16, 2005 |
Advocate For Pot Arrested A Windsor man who says he grows marijuana for the sick and dying has been busted on drug charges. Fred Pritchard, 37, a self-styled marijuana legalization advocate who goes by the moniker Daweedking, is facing charges of marijuana production and trafficking. [Busting compassion clubs means shutting down the competition to the governments med pot program.. not how capitalism is supposed to work..] |
| May 15, 2005 |
LTE: Pothead Advice Not Needed Rather than speak of the virtues of cannabis for the victims of, say, glaucoma or chemotherapy nausea, he chooses to promote the recreational and irresponsible use of this stuff. Mr. Paden is pictured puffing on a huge spliff and quoted as saying "I've been smoking this for probably close to an hour" and "I can't walk anymore." [Hmmm, we don't think twice when a drunk says that..] |