Top Stories (2005) -
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| Jan 10, 2005 |
Pot Easier To Get At School Than Tobacco, Teens Say Marijuana perceived as less harmful; Success of federal anti-smoking campaigns partly responsible, focus groups suggest |
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| Jan 10, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Cops Want The Drug War To Continue The drug war has been going on for decades and there is no sign the tide will turn any time soon. |
| Jan 10, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Pot Busts Only Making Mary Jane Matters Worse Prohibition does not keep society safe from drugs. It does guarantee lifetime employment to those doing the prohibiting. Along with a reliable source of dirty money to any drug warrior so inclined. |
| Jan 10, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Medical Marijuana: More Legal Cannabis Users About 8,000 Canadians get their organic, multiple-strain, multiple-delivery-option, medical-grade marijuana from compassion clubs across the country, all at no expense to the taxpayers. Meanwhile, Health Canada supplies their single-strain, gamma-irradiated, chemically-contaminated, mulch-pot to only 93 of the 753 Canadians currently licensed to possess cannabis. |
| Jan 10, 2005 |
CN BC:
Few Complaints About Grow-op Cleanup Fees In just six months, the city has issued almost $157,000 in penalties to landlords whose houses and buildings contained marijuana growing operations. But only two of the property owners have complained. |
| Jan 10, 2005 |
CN BC:
School Drug And Alcohol Policy Slammed By Parents oms and Dads Says Policy Focuses on Punishment Rather Than Proactive Approach to Dealing With Issues |
| Jan 9, 2005 |
CN AB:
Grow-Ops Seed Violence Cultivators Need Pruning No Matter How You Feel About Pot The city's plan is sound, so long as it's Mr.-and-Mrs. Law-and-Order who ...read the pamphlet, and are encouraged to spy on the neighbourhood for closed curtains and foggy windows. The problem is, too many people in this city sympathize with those who regularly purchase Zig-Zag rolling papers -- even if they aren't personally putting Bic to bong, a lot of Calgarians believe pot is a harmless bit of herbal recreation. |
| Jan 8, 2005 |
CN BC:
Medical Pot Advocate Guilty Of Trafficking Medical Pot Advocate Guilty Of Trafficking </a> The charge against Smith arises from a March 21, 2002 search of the club's Johnson Street offices. Police seized marijuana, cookies, massage oils and salves. The cookies, oils and salves were tested by Health Canada and shown to include cannabis resin, a prohibited substance. He was handed a nine-month conditional discharge. |
| Jan 8, 2005 |
CN BC:
Pot User Laments Loss Of 'Medicinal' Source Brian Carlisle, who was the victim of a home invasion in Chilliwack in September, had been growing his pot at local marijuana advocate Tim Felger's Bradner Road property since the fall. On Thursday morning, Abbotsford Police converged on the well-known property and arrested two men. |
| Jan 8, 2005 |
CNBC:
Marijuana Grow-Ops A Community Problem Author: Beth Blackburn, RCMP Note: RCMP Const. Beth Blackburn is the drug awareness coordinator for central Vancouver Island. Questions and Answers on Marijuana Grow-Ops Why should I be concerned? |
| Jan 7, 2005 |
Boy Dies After Mixing Marijuana With Painkiller A 14-year-old boy from Levis is dead and another is in hospital with severe health effects after mixing marijuana with a prescription drug. [Could the cannabis kill him by itself? NO Could the prescription drug kill him by itself? <a href="http://opioids.com/fentanyl/duragesic.html">YES</a>] |
| Jan 7, 2005 |
CN ON:
Residents Spending Millions On Drugs Residents spend about $2.5 million a month -- or $30 million a year -- on drugs in Timmins, ... "That's $30 million that does not stay in the local economy, that does not get taxed, that leaves Timmins and goes into the bank accounts of Hells Angels and everyone involved in the network," |
| Jan 7, 2005 |
CN BC:
PUB LTE: Misconceptions About Marijuana No matter what Amy van Elk's, or anyone else's opinions about marijuana may be, the bottom line is that our current system of prohibition is failing to achieve any of its stated goals of reducing use, abuse, harm, and crime. |
| Jan 6, 2005 |
CN BC:
Champion Of Medical Weed Gets One Of Two Counts Dropped Ted Smith, Victoria's self-appointed champion for people who use marijuana as medicine, was back in court Wednesday.But in this new trial, prosecutor Michael Lawless rose at the start to say the Crown was staying one charge of trafficking in marijuana. But the Crown is still pressing ahead with a second charge, that is possession of cannabis resin, a different substance according to the law. |
| Jan 6, 2005 |
CN AB:
Cops Hope Pot Busts Turn Tide The 2004 dollar amount is more than 10 times the $9 million worth seized in 2001. |
| Jan 6, 2005 |
PUB LTE: This Just In: Weed, Like,Totally Expands Your Mind .... marijuana is not toxic like other drugs people use. No one has ever overdosed on marijuana and died. |
| Jan 5, 2005 |
CN BC:
Medical Marijuana User Finds A Grower To Keep Him Supplied A local man who says he needs medical marijuana to stay alive has found a grower, thanks to the Capital News. |
| Jan 5, 2005 |
PUB LTE: The Biggest News Story Some newspapers have decided the sponsorship scandal is the biggest Canadian news of 2004. Although the sponsorship scandal is pretty big news, we need to put it into perspective. ...To many, a much bigger story of government mismanagement is still the colossal failure of the war on drugs. |
| Jan 5, 2005 |
CN AB:
LTE: Dumbfounded He says students have a right to privacy but at what cost? Does this right supersede my child's right to safety? http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v05/n077/a07.html[rebuttal offered] |
| Jan 4, 2005 |
Drug Prohibition Is A Terrorist's Best Friend There is little doubt that terrorist groups around the world profit from the drug trade. What anti-drug crusaders refuse to acknowledge, however, is that the connection between drug trafficking and terrorism is the direct result of making drugs illegal. |