Top Stories (2005) -
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| Jan 15, 2005 |
CN NS:
Patriquen Faces $260,000 Fine The founder of Nova Scotia's Marijuana Party was sentenced Friday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court. |
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| Jan 15, 2005 |
Cn BC:
Preventing Marijuana Grow-ops Author: Beth Blackburn, RCMP Note: RCMP Const. Beth Blackburn is the drug awareness coordinator for central Vancouver Island. Landlords should screen prospective tenants carefully and conduct regular inspections of the property. |
| Jan 14, 2005 |
Drug Dog Educates The jury is in - roughly 95% of my readers say they've got no problem with a drug dog being deployed in Edmonton's senior and junior high schools...To me, police should have to have probable cause before launching any search. Otherwise we're headed for a Communist-style, police-state society where authorities have sweeping powers to randomly search your vehicle, office and home. [Disturbing trend - we are led to believe, or it is true, there is wide acceptance of totalitarianism] |
| Jan 14, 2005 |
CN BC:
White Fears For Children Will Bill C-17 Abbotsford MP Randy White fears a bill that calls for the decriminalization of marijuana will give school children "the green light" to light up. [So criminalizing adults is the answer, eh?] |
| Jan 14, 2005 |
CN BC:
LTE: CADAC Sorry Parents Get Information They Wanted The idea of people, especially youth, self medicating when stressed or upset or using any medication, whether it is safe, effective, and benign for recreational purposes is one of our main concerns. How do people learn to cope with every day events and problem solve if they resort to a drug to make them feel better? [Ritalin, Valium, Prozac - It is okay for kids to use drugs to cope - as long as they are deemed the right ones] |
| Jan 13, 2005 |
CN AB:
Who Let The Dogs Into Our Schools? Maybe I'm hopelessly old-fashioned, but I don't see how bringing drug-sniffing dogs into high schools can be called "extremely positive." |
| Jan 13, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Schools Make Drugs Cool Parents are right to be slamming the failed drug policy employed not only in our schools, but in our whole society. Making drugs an "evil taboo" just adds to it's allure and it's "cool." |
| Jan 13, 2005 |
Cannabis For Connoisseurs Pot Guru Ed Rosenthal Releases The Second Volume Of His Big Book Of Buds |
| Jan 13, 2005 |
CN ON:
Police Jumped Gun On Stating Woman Was Impaired Police want to hammer home the message driving while impaired by marijuana can be fatal. A young woman's tragic death was used in an attempt to make that point. If only it were true, or at least, provable by scientific means. Since it wasn't, making a public declaration was not only insensitive, but also inappropriate. As Canada's political system continues to debate the merits of legalizing marijuana, our cops have toughened their stand on the drug's use. Suggesting it opens the door for other criminal activities, the police service's war on grow houses continues unabated. |
| Jan 12, 2005 |
Teens Smoke Marijuana? Why, It's Just Shocking! Shock is the coinage of the news media, and even if we are not shocked ourselves, we will print something not all that shocking if we think anyone at all will be shocked by it. |
| Jan 12, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Pot Report Old News f the statistics and focus groups prove anything, it is that criminalization is less effective than education. If the resources spent to prohibit pot use were redirected to educate and regulate, fewer teens would experiment because they would understand the ris |
| Jan 12, 2005 |
CN BC:
Pot Activist's Charter Rights 'Violated Marijuana champion Ted Smith is the victim of discrimination because he is a pot smoker and a political activist, a provincial court judge heard Tuesday. |
| Jan 12, 2005 |
Pot-spotters Earn $26,050 For Reporting Grow Houses Crime Stoppers approved $26,050 in reward money to Calgarians who called last year with grow-op tips that panned out. That's an $8,550 increase from 2003 and more than half of the overall $49,500 total authorized. |
| Jan 12, 2005 |
CN BC:
Seizures Down A Bit As BC Bud Makes A Run For The Border U.S. Authorities Nabbed 5 Tonnes Of Pot In 2004, But Concede More Gets Through |
| Jan 12, 2005 |
CN AB:
Students Have Right To Privacy It makes me shudder how easily most Canadians give up their basic democratic freedoms. |
| Jan 12, 2005 |
Sex Pot In fact, one study of Jamaican women who had smoked pot throughout pregnancy found that their babies actually registered higher on developmental scores at the age of 30 days, while experiencing no significant effects on birth weight or length. |
| Jan 12, 2005 |
Who's Paranoid? In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly eat. Cigarettes kill. Marijuana doesn't. And by the way, there is not a single study that says second-hand marijuana smoke causes cancer. |
| Jan 12, 2005 |
Involved Public Can Help Stop Crime <strong>Sometimes it's revenge</strong>, sometimes it's the possibility of a reward, but most often it's a desire to help the community that motivates people to pick up the phone and make a tip, said the local RCMP liaison with the program. [It's okay to reward people for revengeful behaviour? And what kind of message does THAT send kids?] |
| Jan 11, 2005 |
CN AB:
Pot, Cons And Pilferers Although there have been rumblings across Canada concerning the so-called decriminalization of marijuana, and headlines have been made about its medical uses, the Pincher Creek RCMP issued a press release last week "to remind people that possession and use of marijuana is still a criminal offence in Canada." |
| Jan 11, 2005 |
Drug Dog Will Visit Schools The project, Dogs for Drug Free Schools, differs from traditional enforcement tactics in that a friendly dog is used to demonstrate its drug-finding capabilities to students while its handler lectures about the dangers of drug use. [Disturbing trend - De-sensitize kids to drug dogs by associating less threatening canines with the task] |