Top Stories (2005) -
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| Jan 21, 2005 |
CN BC:
They Make Millions Helping Pot Growers The owners of Advanced Nutrients beat back legal challenges even as they improve yields for B.C. bud |
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| Jan 21, 2005 |
CN BC:
Medical-marijuana Activist Convicted Of Trafficking Ted Smith...a medical marijuana activist who lit up several joints at a pro-marijuana rally ..was found guilty of trafficking Thursday and now faces a maximum of five years in jail. [Disturbing trend - second person convicted of trafficking for just passing a joint] |
| Jan 21, 2005 |
CN ON:
Crime Stoppers Tips Continued To Rise Last Year The program was established in 1976 in the U.S.; it came to Toronto in 1984. Toronto Crime Stoppers received more than 5,000 tips that led to 474 arrests and 1,808 charges being laid last year, a record-breaker for the crime-fighting program. |
| Jan 21, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Pot Less Deadly Than Approved Drugs ...we continue to hassle those who find pain/symptom relief from medicinal cannabis. I guess we want potheads to die from FDA-approved pharmaceuticals, like the good, law-abiding citizenry does. |
| Jan 21, 2005 |
CN BC:
Municipality Owns Grow-Op Property .. the municipality of Saanich became the first landlord affected by its new grow-operation bylaw. " The thing to do was take the high road and say let's make an example - let everyone get past their initial reaction as well." [The bylaw involves up to $3,500 in fees, but it's taxpayers money, so why not?] |
| Jan 20, 2005 |
CN QU:
Coffee Pot Closed To little fanfare, the Coffee Pot, the Latin Quarter pot-smoking lounge and restaurant, closed its doors last month....business was so slow that he had no choice but to shut its doors just before Christmas. |
| Jan 20, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Pot Prohibition Is A Failed Social Policy Excuse me, but why are we jailing any pot growers? We should be licensing them and forcing them to pay taxes, just like every other business. |
| Jan 20, 2005 |
You Can Never Escape A Criminal Record All the media got it wrong: Svend Robinson and Todd Bertuzzi, along with thousands of unlucky pot-smokers, will carry criminal records, regardless of their conditional discharges. The simple truth about discharges is that they don't avoid a criminal record and never have. Every person who's ever been granted a discharge has a criminal record and cannot honestly or legally deny it. |
| Jan 20, 2005 |
Around The Bong With Tommy Chong "It's a gift from God to make us feel better; something to help us appreciate things. People just need to figure that out." |
| Jan 20, 2005 |
CN BC:
Grow Home-Free Subdivisions Hit In BC A British Columbia developer is building Canada's first guaranteed marijuana grow op-free subdivision, |
| Jan 20, 2005 |
CN NK:
Give Us The Straight Dope Here's the irony: Hearing that marijuana is demon weed - or watching someone taken to court over selling the stuff - sends a terrible message to young people. Because when they figure out that marijuana is not so bad and then look at other warnings - that ecstasy is a potential killer on the rise in N.B.- they think, "Whatever." I know I do. |
| Jan 19, 2005 |
CN BC:
Want Stiffer Sentences For Grow-Ops? Lobby MPs, Not Judges only one in seven people in British Columbia -- and only one in 13 in Vancouver -- convicted of growing marijuana between 2002 and 2004 received a jail sentence. Not surprisingly, law enforcement personnel, who have stepped up raids on grow-ops in recent years, are disappointed with the sentencing records. B.C. Solicitor-General Rich Coleman has also expressed disappointment with the courts.. |
| Jan 19, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Pot Prohbition Puts Public Safety At Risk <strong> All the police hours spent busting grow-ops could have been spent finding rapists and thieves and drunk drivers. Howard J. Wooldridge, (Retired) Law Enforcement Against Prohibition,</strong> <a href=" http://leap.cc/" target="_blank">http://leap.cc/</a> |
| Jan 19, 2005 |
CN BC:
Activists Call For 'Sensitive' Cops "The type of training they receive is basically battlefield conditions, and we're not the enemy," |
| Jan 19, 2005 |
Product Information Sheet on Dried Marihuana <strong>Office of Cannabis Medical Access</strong>: The manufacturing process involves milling of the plant material in order to produce a homogeneous marihuana product...To ensure dried marihuana microbiological safety, the product has been irradiated by gamma irradiation to reduce to undetectable levels, using well-established methodologies, potentially harmful bacteria and microbial load which may cause spoilage. Irradiation ensures that people using the marihuana and who may have compromised immune systems, are not exposed to toxic spores which occur naturally in plants. <br> <a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/ocma/publication/information_sheet_dried_marihuana.htm" target=_blank">Product Information Sheet on spp.) [PDF]</a> <br> <a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/ocma/publication/information_sheet_marihuana_seeds.htm" target=_blank">Product Information Sheet on Marihuana (Cannabis spp.) Seeds [PDF]</a><br> [There is concern about this product and process. See Canadians For Safe Access <a href="http://safeaccess.ca/research/flinflon/"> Flin Flon section</a>] |
| Jan 17, 2005 |
CN QU:
Psychologist In Trouble Over Pot Offer A high-profile Montreal psychologist specializing in addictions is in hot water with his professional order for offering to procure cannabis for a former client. |
| Jan 17, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Growing Like Weed Now if they would only do something about it -- like legalize, regulate and tax. |
| Jan 17, 2005 |
Pot Prohibition A Policy Flop If we needed any more proof that the war being waged against pot is futile, we got it a few days ago in a Health Canada report. The federal agency reports pot is easier to get in Canadian school yards than tobacco. |
| Jan 16, 2005 |
CN BC;
Cannabis Crusade - A House Divided On the face of it, Phillippe Lucas, and Ted Smith, share common cause. Why, then, do they barely talk to each other? |
| Jan 15, 2005 |
CN ON:
Man Dies as Police Raid Home "The officers were attempting to arrest a man inside the home and became involved in a struggle with him," the statement read. "At approximately 2:07 a.m., police requested an ambulance because the man was having trouble breathing." |