Top Stories (2005) -
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| May 6, 2005 |
Medicinal Pot Users Society Mandate Approved The Okanagan is about to join Nelson, Victoria and Vancouver with the creation of a new society with a mandate to distribute cheap, safe medical marijuana. Richard Babcock, founder of the Okanagan Compassion Club Society, knows too well the difficulties in obtaining good medical marijuana. [If the governments med pot program worked, these clubs would be defunct rather than expanding...] |
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| May 6, 2005 |
B.C. Marijuana Party Shut Out Of Schools B.C. Marijuana Party candidates won't be allowed to participate in all-candidates meetings at Surrey schools. [Yes, kiddies, this is what democracy looks like...] |
| May 5, 2005 |
CN AB:
Global March Supports Effort To Legalize Marijuana Marijuana has been garnering a lot of negative media attention in Calgary recently due to the burgeoning numbers of grow-ops police are busting and concern over organized crime involvement in the industry....But a group of Calgary pot users will be trying to send out a different message on May 7. They'll be participating in Global Marijuana March, a worldwide protest to legalize pot, which first began in New York City in 1996 and has since spread to 37 countries and 181 cities. |
| May 5, 2005 |
City Applies Pressure On Grow-Ops The project starts immediately and involves three specially-appointed city officials travelling around Abbotsford's streets. Using equipment that senses excessive heat, they will scan homes from the outside to determine whether there is a grow-op inside. If they suspect there is, the staff would knock on the door of the home, and if there is an answer, act under the provincial Community Charter to enter the property on the grounds of it being a public safety hazard. [How to circumvent the Charter of Rights in one easy swoop...] |
| May 5, 2005 |
The Longley And Winding Road Who is Blair Longley? "I am like a grandfather of the Marijuana Party. I was the first person back in Vancouver in 1987 to get away with publicly cultivating pot and be let off, acquitted, even though I was clearly doing it. There was absolutely no doubt about it, but I was let go. The whole story is very amusing." |
| May 5, 2005 |
Customs Officer Says B.C. Gang Forced Him To Smuggle Drugs A customs officer with the Canadian Border Services Agency is in a U.S. federal prison awaiting a bail hearing after he was arrested Tuesday at the truck crossing in Blaine, Washington allegedly trying to smuggle more than 100 kilograms of B.C. bud past colleagues guarding the U.S. border. |
| May 4, 2005 |
Police Board Suggesting Cameras To Curb Crime In an effort to put a stop to criminal and anti-social behaviour after-hours on Scott Street, the Police Services Board wants the town to install a surveillance system in the downtown area. [Big Brother has eyes everywhere..] |
| May 4, 2005 |
Cop Gets Eight-year Sentence A Superior court judge has sentenced a veteran Peel Regional Police officer to eight years in prison after the 60-year-old admitted to stealing nearly $3 million worth of cocaine and hash from a police storage facility just months before he was to retire. |
| May 4, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Renters Losing Their Charter Rights Of course, child molesters and child abusers can still hide their victims in the home, still safe from inspection and searches, as long as the don't grow pot. It says much about the priorities of our rulers. So, if you are a renter, it appears that just about everybody has the right to invade your privacy and your home. Big Brother, and doublespeak, are alive and well in Canada. |
| May 4, 2005 |
Pot Bust Tactic Challenged Police busted Marc-Boris St-Maurice for pot possession last year after taking out memberships in the pro-marijuana political party he founded and infiltrating its clubhouse, Cafe Marijane. [...making the streets safer...it would be funny if it weren't so pathetic what the cops won't do...] |
| May 3, 2005 |
Marijuana Party Joins The Race Nelson-Creston Riding: Just Under The Wire, Philip McMillan Files Papers To Bring Total Names On The Ballot To Four |
| May 3, 2005 |
Indoor Gardening Expo Bears Some Bitter Fruit A rift centred on an upcoming local expo highlights the sensitivities surrounding the indoor gardening technique of hydroponics. One B.C. company that pitches itself as a medical marijuana leader said it is boycotting the fifth annual International Indoor Gardening Expo, which takes place Saturday and Sunday at the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre |
| May 1, 2005 |
Interview With Dr Andrew Weil There are many reasons to recommend it as a medicine. It's got extremely low toxicity and it's useful for conditions that it manages well like muscle spasms, chronic pain and also lack of appetite that occurs in HIV infections and cancers. The downside of marijuana is that you know most doctors are not very comfortable recommending that patients smoke and the affects are variable from individual to individual. It just seems to me silly to deny ourselves the benefits of marijuana. It doesn't work for everyone but it works for some people. The real problem you are up against is that this is not a rational area of discussion. Marijuana becomes a powerful symbol of a lifestyle and it represents a lot of things that most cultures are afraid of and I think the resistance to legitimizing marijuana as a medicine, really stems from this irrational fear that if we do that we are chipping away at this whole superstructure of myths that has been built up of cannabis as a devil drug that has no redeeming qualities. |
| May 1, 2005 |
Border Guards Awash In Sea Of Green B.C. drug smugglers are breaking the law -- and the bank -- when they sneak across the border. An increase in seizures is putting enormous strain on Washington county law enforcement and local officials say they've had enough. [Canada is responsible for 2% of US pot, so this is just another example of a lost cause...] |
| May 1, 2005 |
Cops Find Kids Being Kept In Drug Houses [Are parents who grow legal crops indoors also guilty of exposing their kids to unsafe conditions.. if nothing else, this is just another reason why ALL drugs should be regulated] |
| May 1, 2005 |
Grow Ops -- An Inside Look So the question for all Canadians is, How would we have the law separate the Herbs from the Luus? How can organized-crime-driven grow operations be prevented while still allowing Canadians who choose to smoke marijuana--or need to smoke it for medical reasons--to provide for themselves and others without risking jail and a criminal record? In other words, how should the law draw the line between personal choice and those who would criminally exploit us? |
| Apr 30, 2005 |
Cops May Face Rap Over Rights Breach After handcuffing the men, the officers searched the vehicle and seized cocaine, marijuana, a knife and cash. "Reading someone their rights has got to be the first thing they do," said Jenuth. "You see it on TV. It should be second nature." |
| Apr 29, 2005 |
One-Mann Campaign For Marijuana Party If Michael Mann gets elected on May 17, he wants to serve as a watchdog on behalf of the people who elected him. ..The B.C. Marijuana Party candidate for the Alberni-Qualicum constituency says having an independent voice in the legislature to hold people to account is something that's sorely needed. |
| Apr 29, 2005 |
Pot Growers Pay For New Program A 90-day Grow Op Public Safety pilot project that kicked in yesterday should give Abbotsford one of the most effective marijuana grow-op busting tools in Canada, said Mayor Mary Reeves. The $100,000 pilot project, designed in the past year and a half by the city's grow-op task force, will enforce the provincial Fire Services Act, the B.C. Building Code and the city's Controlled Substance Property Bylaw to gain entry into homes suspected to have dangerous activity. [First they targeted renters, now no one is exempt from intrusion..] |
| Apr 26, 2005 |
Medicinal Marijuana Activist Brings Fight To Legalize Drugs to Sackville A former corrections officer and one of Canada's most outspoken medicinal marijuana activists says that calls for tougher drug sentencing following the recent slayings of the four RCMP officers in northern Alberta is not the answer. |