Top Stories (2005) -
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| May 14, 2005 |
Pro-Pot Party Takes School Board, City To Court The party went to B.C. Supreme Court Friday, saying officials of the Surrey school board and the City of Abbotsford have infringed on the rights of its candidates by ripping down the party's signs and banning its standard-bearers from all-candidates meetings. |
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| May 14, 2005 |
Tenants' RightsGroup Worries Grow-Op Bylaw Could Be Abused [When there is one set of rules for home owners and another for home renters, the divide between the haves and have nots widens and deepens] |
| May 13, 2005 |
Cops Hurt In Drug Raid Two Toronto cops are in hospital suffering from broken bones after they tried to arrest a group of men in an alleged high-rise crackhouse. [This is why they prefer to stick to busting pot growers...] |
| May 12, 2005 |
Crown Right Not To Charge Cops Who Tasered Teen: Prof Fryingpan was 16 years old and passed out drunk in the back of a car in the parking lot of a north-end townhouse project on Oct. 5, 2002 when police were called. The teen was shocked six times in 66 seconds by Const. Mike Wasylyshen, the son of then-chief Bob Wasylyshen. [To serve and protect... the police are our friends...] |
| May 12, 2005 |
Who's Your Puff Mama? Puff Mama's sunday-night ganja and grub revue headlined by Global Marijuana March MC Watermelon would have impressed Jay Gatsby himself. A warm-hearted med-cannabis baker, Puff Mama - who refuses to use her other name - throws grass-infused, in-the-know fundraisers featuring her delectable edibles and Wayward Comedy Show. |
| May 11, 2005 |
Abduction Linked To Pot Smuggling Police believe the May 2 kidnapping is related to shipping of marijuana to the U.S., said Abbotsford police Const. Shinder Kirk "We have seen over the past several years that the drug trade is extremely lucrative, that organized groups, or even unorganized groups, will do anything to protect their trade from competitors," Kirk said. "And marijuana is no exception." [They forget to mention how prohibition-related crime like this could be avoided...] |
| May 10, 2005 |
Prohibition As part of our ongoing election coverage, the Langley Advance News is providing free space for local provincial candidates to clarify their views on issues facing Langley voters. Chris Scrimes Marijuana Party Prohibition It is time to end Ottawa's failed criminal prohibition and, instead, to allow the province to regulate and tax the marijuana industry. |
| May 10, 2005 |
City Wants Info On Who's Using Hydroponics An Abbotsford city council resolution asking the province to force retailers to give police data on customers who buy hydroponic growing equipment, goes to the Lower Mainland Municipal Association this week. [You are a suspect if you do buy anthing from grow equipment to cold medicine...mandatory ID for any purchase is next..] |
| May 10, 2005 |
Pot Party's Participation Called 'Inappropriate' Student voters at Kwalikum Secondary in Qualicum Beach didn't hear a particular voice at yesterday's school forum. That's because Marijuana party candidate Michael Mann was not invited. KSS principal Darryl Craig called Mann's participation inappropriate. [Students learn a lot about so-called democracy..] |
| May 10, 2005 |
Accused In Slayings Described Himself As Assassin Gregory Allen Despres, accused of slaying an elderly Minto couple told American Customs officers he was an off-duty assassin before being allowed to cross the border, says a Charlotte County man who was seeking entry into Maine at the same time. ..Mr. Young said he was detained at the border station while trying to enter Calais because he was arrested in Ottawa almost 20 years ago for drug possession - two grams of hash. He said he was pardoned in Canada on the charge. ... Mr. Young was not allowed to continue on with his friends and never got the money for his trip refunded. [This actually belongs in Ripley's Believe It Or Not...] |
| May 10, 2005 |
School Official Says Province's Drug Dog Idea 'Not Adequate' Solicitor General Harvey Cenaiko. .. said he was working to convince reluctant school boards to allow police dogs to conduct drug searches after school hours. Cenaiko said there were some school boards that don't want the dogs in schools and he was currently considering legislation to overrule them..."The dogs are growing up in our schools. The kids get to know them. "Kids know the dogs are being trained to smell drugs." [Kids also grow up with the knowledge of how hypocritical adults are, which is why so many messages get "lost" on youth, no matter what tactics are used ] |
| May 10, 2005 |
Police Sweep Of Carter High School Yields No Evidence Of Illegal Drugs Leamington police came up empty-handed after their third drug sweep this year at Cardinal Carter Secondary School. Leamington officers, assisted by the OPP and its canine unit searched the school Friday, but found no illegal drugs. [So we can all agree this is more about accustomizing kids to terrorizing authority than drugs?] |
| May 10, 2005 |
Crusaders Promote Pot With Flagpole Prank Spirits were flying high in the downtown civic square on the weekend, when someone hoisted a mock Canadian flag with a cannabis leaf up a City Hall flagpole. [The cannabis leaf flag is as common as the real flag...so it's surprising anyone noticed the change] |
| May 9, 2005 |
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Marijuana Activists Join Global Protest SASKATCHEWAN - Marijuana Activists From Saskatoon Joined A Global Protest Saturday. About a dozen people marched from Broadway Avenue to city hall Saturday afternoon to raise awareness of what organizers call state-sponsored discrimination. [Lifting the bonds of oppression has never been an easy task for any group, but perserverence has it's rewards eventually...] |
| May 9, 2005 |
Dealing Dope in B.C. Is Far From a Victimless Crime To hear some latter-day hippies tell it, marijuana use is a victimless and harmless crime. You buy the substance from your friendly neighbourhood dealer just as you would a carton of cornflakes from your corner grocer. But a Province news story last week points to a sinister aspect of drug sales in B.C., namely their apparent connection to violent gangs. [The media constantly mistakes prohibition-realted problems with cannabis-growing problems which makes matters worse,,, and worse...] |
| May 8, 2005 |
Hydroponics Industry Getting 'A Bad Rap Lately' The hydroponics business is getting caught up in the illegal grow-op business and it's unfair, according to one worker. ..."We're trying to promote plants that aren't low light that need good light and good nutrition. A lot of people are into small vegetable gardens in the winter or they grow orchids or bonsai trees. That's what we try to promote." [If every Canadian family would begin a small garden at home, then the so-called "dangers of indoor growing" would be eliminated from our lexicon] |
| May 8, 2005 |
MLA Touts Drug Dogs As School Mascots School mascots should be drug dogs, Alberta's Alliance MLA thinks. "What would it be like in our schools if we were indeed to have a mascot dog that was a drug sniffer?" Cardston MLA Paul Hinman mused in the legislature this week. |
| May 8, 2005 |
Grow-Op Bust Ends In Death A 45-YEAR-OLD woman, apparently trying to elude police, plunged 15 storeys to her death at an apartm [or..Prohibition claims another life...] |
| May 8, 2005 |
Downtown Pot Rally Brings Whiff Of The '60s Close to 3,000 people celebrated cannabis culture as part of the sixth "Global Million Marijuana March," marked in more than 200 cities worldwide. "We want to see it legalized and decriminalized," said organizer Franklin Skanks. He believes legalizing pot would bring in more revenue via "sin taxes," boost tourism and help shut down organized marijuana grow-ops. |
| May 7, 2005 |
With A Bong In His Heart Dominic Cramer is running late. But when you preside over a growing retail empire rooted in marijuana, being time-challenged comes with the turf. Make no mistake, though, Cramer is no ordinary pothead. |