Top Stories (2005) -
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| Mar 26, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Debunking Myths If we are to deal effectively with the problems of drug abuse and addiction, we need education, regulation, treatment and enforcement -- certainly not propaganda, misinformation, prohibition and incarceration. |
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| Mar 26, 2005 |
Headaches Fuel Revival Of Hallucinogenic Medicine Doctors Look At Magic Mushrooms And LSD As Possible Cures For A 'Terrible Affliction,' {Finally, some real advancements in the forbidden areas of medicine] |
| Mar 25, 2005 |
Returning Pot Activist To US A Death Sentence he wife of medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby told Federal Court Justice Sandra Simpson that returning her husband to the U.S. to serve a prison term would be a death sentence. |
| Mar 25, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Money Wasted On Drug 'Prohibition' In your editorial, "It's about the money" ( Progress, March 18 ) you say that the legalization of marijuana is naive. I can't help but think that you have it backwards. It is time the prohibitionists were called to account for the abysmal mess drug use suppression has become. |
| Mar 24, 2005 |
Editorial: Giving Up The Fight On Pot Not An Option News that British Columbia's indoor pot business is still flourishing is a message to some that it's time to give up the fight over marijuana grow operations. They claim it's a battle that can never be won; that simple surrender is the only option. That's a naive suggestion. [If people who can think logically and rationally are labeled "naive", than it is just as easy to label those who want to ramp up the war on a non-toxic plant, as morons] |
| Mar 24, 2005 |
CN BC:
Police Want Store Owners To Reveal Pot Information The City of Abbotsford wants businesses who sell hydroponics supplies and used goods - especially guns or equipment used in marijuana growing operations - to pass their customer information on to local police. [If trying to enforce a victimless law requires such extreme measures and relinquishing even more privacy and rights, then at some point, the tipping point will occur] |
| Mar 24, 2005 |
Survey Uncovers Educated Tokers VANCOUVER -- Marijuana users are more likely than non-users to be single, well-educated and earning a decent salary. Just 43 per cent of low-income earners had smoked cannabis, versus 55 per cent of high income earners. [Will the police include this data in their spins?] |
| Mar 23, 2005 |
PUB LTE: The Potent-pot Myth Both weak and strong marijuana will yield the desired result. Since potent marijuana requires significantly less smoke inhalation, it's actually less harmful. |
| Mar 23, 2005 |
Stop Trying To Change The Laws Of Economics It's as it was with alcohol prohibition in the United States, which resulted not in an end to drinking, but the creation of Al Capone. |
| Mar 22, 2005 |
CN ON:
Grow-op Posse Alarms Police Politicians Hunt Drug Door To Door - Almost Vigilantism,' Officers Contend Two Scarborough politicians are going door to door in their neighbourhood looking for marijuana grow houses to report to police. [Can you imagine if politicians put this much time and energy into ending poverty. What a wonderful world it would be.] |
| Mar 21, 2005 |
CN ON:
'Dirty Money' Act Challenged In Class Action Two Ontario men have launched a $100-million class action against the provincial government, demanding that a controversial anti-crime law be struck down because it violates the Charter. ...the legislation that gives the province the power to confiscate suspected dirty money from people who have not been convicted of any crime. |
| Mar 21, 2005 |
CN BC:
BC Hydro Could Help Bust Grow-ops Last week, Solicitor General Rich Coleman urged BC Hydro to help police in their battle against drugs. He asked the Crown corporation to turn information over to the authorities when customers have unusually high power bills, which may indicate a possible grow operation in the residence. [The next generation will have no clue what privacy is or means] |
| Mar 21, 2005 |
American Woman Awaits Extradition Decision Nightmares about abuse in prison and separation from her son have plagued Renee Boje for more than four years as she awaits a decision on her extradition to the United States. |
| Mar 20, 2005 |
How Science Is Skewed to Fuel Fears of Marijuana Aside from unverifiable conjecture, supporters of the status quo on marijuana rely on a few claims that can be checked against the facts. |
| Mar 20, 2005 |
CN BC:
Grow-Ops Below BC Average ...B.C.'s average of 1.09 for the number of (grow op) busts per 1,000 people ... |
| Mar 19, 2005 |
Is Pot Far More Potent Than in the Past? (Dan Gardner) "When smoking stronger pot, you smoke less and you have less exposure to tars and respiratory irritants,... so in some ways it's worth smoking the best pot you can afford." Mitch Earleywine, professor of psychology, University of Southern California [Although cannabis in the past may not have been as strong as that grown today, high THC hash was always available that could match or was stronger than today's cannabis, so the it is a moot point] |
| Mar 19, 2005 |
Government Calls For Tough Action On Grow Ops Marijuana grow operations pose a serious threat to our citizens, the law enforcement officers who try to disrupt the illegal enterprises, and the well-being of communities across the country. |
| Mar 18, 2005 |
RCMP Defends Controversial Report On Increasing Danger Critics Say Study Should Look At More Data Than Are Provided By Police Statistics "This was $250,000 of taxpayers' money, essentially for the police to market their agenda," The RCMP is defending its decision to spend $110,000 on a high-profile study that warned of the increasing dangers of marijuana grow-ops in British Columbia and was headed by a criminologist with extensive links to police forces in North America. Why should it surprise us that cannabis-obssessed police would not try and further their agenda? |
| Mar 18, 2005 |
CN QU:
Bloc Pot Leader Complains Of Police Sting The leader of the Bloc Pot told a Quebec Court hearing yesterday that undercover Montreal police officers secretly joined the pro-marijuana political party to find evidence against users of the illegal drug. The police have infiltrated Narcotics Anonymous meetings and everything else, so it should be no surprise. |
| Mar 18, 2005 |
CN BC:
Prove it or lose it Civil forfeiture enacted by fall Legislation introduced in Victoria last week will eventually allow government to seize goods believed to have been bought with ill-gotten profit. [seize goods <strong><i>believed<i></strong> to have been bought - the keyword being "believed" instead of "proved". It only opens the door to more corruption,which fuels ambitious lawmakers and keeps them coming back for more] |