Top Stories (2005) -
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| Jan 31, 2005 |
Marijuana Makes Lungs Go To Pot Smoking marijuana can cause the same health problems as smoking cigarettes, a new study shows. [The headline contains as much information about the study as the article itself] |
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| Jan 28, 2005 |
CN BC:
RCMP Reach Settlement With Off-Duty Policeman Who should wave him over and ask to see his driver's licence and vehicle registration but a tall man with a thick Texan accent? "We have different freedoms than they do down there. You don't want your police meshing to the point where we start taking on the policies of another police jurisdiction." [Disturbing trend - more US cops coming over the border ] |
| Jan 28, 2005 |
CN BC:
Organized Crime Is Here, Say RCMP The RCMP has a national strategy to deal with organized crime... Illegal drugs are the top priority, followed by outlaw motorcycle gangs, economic crime, high-tech crime, money laundering, illegal migration and trafficking of human beings, corruption and street gangs. [ Trafficking of human beings - usually women - is way at the bottom of the list, but does anyone ever mention the skewed priorities?] |
| Jan 28, 2005 |
Canada bans pot, but taxes seeds Pot may be illegal in Canada, but that hasn't stopped this country from becoming one of the top suppliers of seeds in the world, a marijuana activist says .These companies have found a legal loophole within the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Under section 58, the act specifies "non-viable seeds" as legal but doesn't say anything about "viable seeds." |
| Jan 27, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Canada Is Small Potatoes Among Pot Exporters ...the available evidence, including reports from the auditor general of Canada, the RCMP, the U.S. and the United Nations, shows just the opposite -- that Canada is in fact only a minor supplier of cannabis to the U.S. - [written by Eugene Oscapella - Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy ] |
| Jan 27, 2005 |
Project North Star a beacon for intelligence community Project North Star, run by the U.S. Border Patrol, gathers law enforcement experts from Canada and the north eastern U.S....the two-day conference also dealt with the explosion of marijuana grow operations in Toronto, ...He said one attendee from the U.S. left a mountain of literature on drugs that will be distributed to the community by Toronto Drug Squad officers. [The US propaganda machine permeates deeper into Canadian culture, and for good reason.... although we are the closest peer country in geographical proximity, we are further away politically from the US than the sell out Commonwealth nations we share our roots with.] |
| Jan 26, 2005 |
Canada Top Pot Supplier Canada is now the largest single supplier of pot to the United States, says a top customs official. [ <a href="http://frankdiscussion.netfirms.com/images/usmjimportschart.gif" target="_blank">LIES!!!!...</a> it was only 3 months ago the report below came out...] <br><br> *FLASHBACK* October 25, 2004 <a href="http://www.psepc-sppcc.gc.ca/publications/policing/drug_threat_e.asp">United States-Canada Border Drug Threat Assessment:</a> While Canadian-produced marijuana accounts for only approximately 2% of overall U.S. marijuana seizures at its borders, the two governments are very concerned about an upward trend in seizures... <a href="http://www.cfdp.ca/export.htm" target="_blank">[Further reading from CFDP]</a> |
| Jan 26, 2005 |
CN BC:
Hey, What Are They Smoking? Ted Smith's marijuana conviction hasn't slowed the flow at the Cannabis Buyers' Club. The Johnson Street storefront is still open to the 1,400 or so people who say they need marijuana for medical purposes. |
| Jan 26, 2005 |
I'll Take Police Over Landlords, Thanks I don't think a bylaw that encourages landlords to be any more paranoid or nosy is a good idea. Of equal concern for tenants is that landlords are not very good at recognizing innocent tenants. Worse, many landlords are not familiar with the Residential Tenancy Act, and a concept called the right to "quiet and peaceful enjoyment of property." [Of course if you are wealthy enough to afford your own home, you live in a less intrusive world than your less fortunate counterparts. Is it class war when those who make these laws have a choice to live under them, while for others there is no choice?] |
| Jan 25, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Injustice Being Done To Cannabis Activists When did sharing cannabis with friends and political supporters become "trafficking?" Though the law technically allows convictions even where no money is exchanged, there is a terrible injustice being done |
| Jan 25, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Politicians Scared Of US The reason that our politicians are so afraid of the marijuana issue has more to do with attitudes to the south of us than here at home.So, you tell me, who really runs this country? |
| Jan 25, 2005 |
CN BC:
BC Crime-fighting Budget Gets Boost Of $122-Million ... the explosive growth of marijuana-growing operations in British Columbia, which has earned the province the unenviable title of "Colombia North," was a big incentive for the government. A study released in 2002 showed the number of marijuana grow-ops in British Columbia had increased 222 per cent between 1997 and 2000 and had jumped by more than 1,000 per cent in some areas. [The incentives are so obvious - keep cannabis illegal to keep the cash flowing to police jobs rather than social programs] |
| Jan 25, 2005 |
CN BC:
Bail Set At $150,000 For Marijuana Activist Abbotsford's self-proclaimed marijuana activist Tim Felger will have to pay a $150,000 bail to get of out jail and allow Abbotsford police to search his property any time if he is released. |
| Jan 25, 2005 |
US WA:
County's Pot Production Dropping Police Say Their Enforcement and Potent B.C. Marijuana Cut into Local Growing Operations."Like any consumer out there, marijuana users want the most bang for their buck and they prefer the stuff coming from Canada." Most of the marijuana police found statewide was from large operations cultivating cannabis with high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, [What this article fails to mention is less pot, <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v05/n132/a01.html?1798"> more meth</a>, is that what we really want? It then continues with standard US propaganda that we will begin seeing more and more of in a Canadian newspaper near you.] |
| Jan 24, 2005 |
Justice Ministers Want Tougher Laws Topping the list of federal reforms urgently sought by the provinces is the abolition -- or at least the severe restriction -- of the availability of conditional sentencing. Conditional sentences such as house arrest, curfews, electronic monitoring and other alternatives to incarceration can be imposed by judges for offenders deemed not dangerous who would otherwise be jailed for less than two years. |
| Jan 24, 2005 |
CN ON:
Hemp Cream Turns Heads Christina Anderman sheepishly admits she has been experimenting with hemp-based ice cream since 1997 - one year before the federal government made it legal once again for Canadian farmers to grow hemp |
| Jan 23, 2005 |
CN ON:
Orleans Smoke Shop Raises Profile Of Cannabis It's called Puffalot: A new store on St. Joseph Boulevard in Orleans that sells pipes, rolling paper, gram scales, and bongs ( multiple-user water pipes ) -- everything needed to smoke marijuana, except the actual weed. |
| Jan 23, 2005 |
CN AB:
Hunter High On Pot Fined $1,800 "We think it is one of the highest fines ever levied in the province for hunting while impaired by a drug..."Wildlife officers said they smelled drugs... |
| Jan 22, 2005 |
CN BC:
Pot Inc. Big Businesses Have Sprung Up Around the Fuzzy Legal Boundaries of Marijuana Cultivation in Canada. Are Some Crossing The Line?.... the government is supplying roughly 1,000 people with marijuana...compassion clubs... are illegally supplying nearly 10,000 |
| Jan 22, 2005 |
CN BC:
Awareness Critical Abbotsford MP Randy White was pushing his message to the converted last week as he urged the school board to familiarize themselves with a bill that would decriminalize marijuana and mobilize parent groups to get involved. |