Top Stories (2005) -
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| Feb 28, 2005 |
Marijuana Party Head Joins Liberals The head of the Marijuana Canada party has resigned to join the Liberals. Marc-Boris St-Maurice, who led the party from its inception in 2000 until December of 2004, said he will make a formal announcement on Tuesday |
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| Feb 25, 2005 |
It's Time for Canada to Legalize Cannabis Most arguments against cannabis legalization are moralistic, whereas the arguments in favour are pragmatic and would help to protect minors, users, and society. The time has come to legalize cannabis. [Straightforward and to the point. Hooray!] |
| Feb 25, 2005 |
CN AB:
Cops On Hook For Injuries During Raid Cops who cracked the ribs of a city man when they wrongly raided his home must pay him $20,000, Alberta's top court ruled yesterday. [What happened to the cop? He got a promotion...] |
| Feb 25, 2005 |
CN BC:
City Bylaw Pounding Pot Growers A new Chilliwack bylaw is muscling marijuana grow-ops out of residential neighbourhoods and hitting operators in the pocketbook - even before court convictions. Four hundred grow-ops were reported to police in Chilliwack last year, suggesting the real number could be more than 1,200. [Squeezing out the family gardens in favour of organized crime - good idea- NOT] |
| Feb 24, 2005 |
Tax Relief Goes To Pot OTTAWA - Canadians will get tax relief to buy marijuana, gold and jewellery and for world travel under yesterday's proposed federal budget. |
| Feb 23, 2005 |
Police Too Quick To Bust Down Door A husband and wife have been acquitted of growing marijuana after an RCMP officer failed to give them enough time to answer their door before he smashed it down with a battering ram. |
| Feb 23, 2005 |
Canada, U.S. 'Never More Different' McKenna made a spirited defence of Canadian independence in matters such as marijuana, which many American legislators have sharply criticized. |
| Feb 22, 2005 |
Motion Calls For Taxation Of Legal Marijuana OTTAWA -- Delegates to the Liberal party convention next month will debate a motion to legalize and tax marijuana sales, saying it would bring in billions in new tax revenue. |
| Feb 21, 2005 |
CN NK:
Pot caf? owner found guilty of trafficking SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The owner of the Cannabis Caf? in Saint John has been found guilty of drug trafficking, after a judge rejected the defence that she was running a compassion club. |
| Feb 20, 2005 |
CN BC:
Medical User Needs Help! After years of struggle, Denny was finally granted his license just last week. He is only awaiting the official paperwork to come through. While Denny was in hospital, these gestapo agents proceeded to search Denny's home. Of course they found his grow room. Denny was between crops, and didn't have even so much as a clone. Yet Sgt. Stadenco and his Keystone cops, proceeded to tear down the room and seize all the gear. [This is how the police treat our sick family members] |
| Feb 17, 2005 |
CN BC:
Pot Party Looks For Candidates If the thought of legalizing marijuana is high on your list of priorities, consider becoming a Marijuana Party candidate in the May 17 B.C. election. |
| Feb 16, 2005 |
CN ON:
More Grow-Ops In Toronto Than US Ontario Cabinet ministers who back calls for harsher gun-crime penalties say Toronto is home to as many marijuana grow operations as all of the United States and claim that criminals in the city now rent guns for weekend jobs "like they are videos from a video store." [They never mention where they get these so-called "facts". Anyone with half a brain would know this is nothing more than fantasy reporting at it's finest.] |
| Feb 16, 2005 |
CN ON:
Teen Turns In Drug Producing Dad Peel Regional Police say a 15-year-old Meadowvale girl turned her father in this week, telling investigators he was operating a massive marijuana lab in the basement of the family home. "More and more often, parents are exposing their children to the hazards of marijuana grow labs," [More and more reasons to legalize and regulate] |
| Feb 16, 2005 |
'Smoke Pits' To Be Eliminated SAY GOODBYE to the high school smoke pit, the refuge of rebellious, cigarette-puffing teens since the dawn of cool. ..Along with the smoking ban, students can also expect random locker searches conducted with drug-sniffing dogs, a process outlined in the district's draft policy on illegal drugs. If read about the unsolved murders of many teen in: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/d5tbj" target="_blank">Highway of Tears</a>, you wonder what right-minded BC citizen, in any opinion poll, isn't going to support directing police resources towards solving these murders, rather than fighting grow ops? Or "smoke-pits? The successful <a href="http://saferchoice.org" target="_blank">SAFER</a> campaign in Denver was partly based on this angle, and it is a good way for people to prioritize their own safety needs, rather than have them dictated by law enforcement. |
| Feb 15, 2005 |
Breath-Testing Technology Goes To High School A Growing Number Of Principals Are Buying Devices To Check For Alcohol - Or Drugs [ You have to wonder what's next...] |
| Feb 15, 2005 |
A Genuine Joint The Hot Box Cafe isn't some trendy side-street eatery on Bloor West. It is Toronto's first and only marijuana cafe, tailored to the city's 'high' society. Nestled between Kensington Carpets and open-air grocery stores in the heart of Kensington Market, it's a place where patrons can sit down for a coffee and smoke a joint. Customers are encouraged to bring and smoke their own weed in the cafe. |
| Feb 13, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Grow-Op Hazard Hyped But police want to make sure that the public is deathly afraid of marijuana growing because they want prohibition to stay in effect. That is why they exaggerate the dangers and value of plants, and the press just report what police tell them without asking any questions. |
| Feb 13, 2005 |
Heading South? Read This Travelers to the U.S. who have a criminal record - regardless of the offence or how long ago it occurred - may be refused entry, she learned. Pardons issued by the Canadian government are not recognized in the U.S., and travelers with criminal records are supposed to contact the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to find out about admissibility. Those ineligible to travel into the country may apply for a waiver. |
| Feb 11, 2005 |
Will The Real Dopes In This Marijuana-Use Study Please Stand Up How Much Marijuana Does A Research Volunteer Need To Smoke To Demonstrate That Dope Is Bad For Your Brains? Apparently, Up To 350 Joints A Week. [350 joints a week - 50 per day...that would eliminate (with a few exceptions) the entire pot smoking population... the study is nothing but more propaganda- which is why most US drug research is discredited by serious scientists] |
| Feb 11, 2005 |
LTE: Dear Mary Jane Ganja Herb Some of the long-term effects that you can produce are short-term memory loss as well as the inability to do divided-attention tasks. Therefore, smoking you impairs a person's ability to operate a motor vehicle. That makes you as dangerous as alcohol on our roads. [Okay - now we have cops talking to plants...what next? ] |