Top Stories (2005) -
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| Nov 29, 2005 |
In Praise Of Punishment Consider the case of marijuana grow-ops. Anyone in Washington State convicted of running a grow-op can expect a minimum five years in jail. If they're growing on their own property they've just lost their house. If they have young children they can expect social services to remove them. More lies considering Washington state has seen <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v05/n1644/a02.html?265510">Pot Production On The Rise</a>, not to mention a huge meth problem that could be from the clampdown on pot. |
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| Nov 29, 2005 |
Botched Raid Battle Expected To End A Calgary woman's five-year fight against several police officers who bungled a drug raid at her rented southwest home is expected to come to an end today. |
| Nov 26, 2005 |
Starry Skier Miller Rips Into Strict Drug Policy Calling the International Ski Federation's strict drug policy nonsensical and humiliating, the defending all around champion said... It's a system he slammed as being illogical and rife with hypocrisy for allowing cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and Creatine, while banning marijuana, which is available via prescription. |
| Nov 24, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Why The Fuss Over Marijuana Books I don't know a lot of children who read The Journal, so I am not too worried about articles on marijuana warping any young impressionable minds. It seems to me that people who complain about articles on marijuana in the mainstream media think people are nothing but mindless magnets who can't form their own opinions on these issues.... Marijuana is not going away. Let's take it out of the back alleys and bring it around, or even on, |
| Nov 24, 2005 |
Why Blacks Won't Talk To Police I asked for a show of hands of how many had been stopped by police for no apparent reason. Seventeen of the 19 males raised their hands. [Remember the mantra... the police are our friends.. we pay them to serve and protect us...] |
| Nov 23, 2005 |
Conservative Candidate Backs Pot Mine Federal Health Critic Steven Fletcher's call to shut down the local medicinal marijuana grow-op isn't shared by Flin Flon's Conservative MP candidate. |
| Nov 23, 2005 |
Cops Cope With Growing Problem Five years ago, 95 per cent of Ontario Provincial Police drug enforcement was proactive work. Now, it's 95 per cent reactive, and more than half of the workload centres around marijuana, Det. Insp. Frank Elbers said at OPP headquarters yesterday. [Duh, so what's the logical answer?] |
| Nov 22, 2005 |
Pot Party Founder Free To Head South The founder of Nova Scotia's Marijuana party, on parole for conspiring to traffic marijuana, is free to go south in March. Michael Patriquen recently applied to the National Parole Board to change the conditions of his release, allowing him to travel to Jamaica, Mexico or Cuba with his wife and child. |
| Nov 22, 2005 |
Teen Pot Smokers Target Of Addictions Campaign In Manitoba, more than 40 per cent of high school students have used marijuana, according to the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba, one of 20 community groups involved in awareness week. Canadians ages 14 through 25 have the highest rate of pot use in the world, according to the Canadian Public Health Association. |
| Nov 22, 2005 |
Dont Toke And Drive Campaign Begins The campaign poster, to be displayed in schools and libraries across the country, shows two airline pilots smoking pot, with the caption:"If it doesn't make sense here, why does it makes sense when you drive?" "We're trying to dispel the the myths around pot and driving," said Elinor Wilson, of the CPHA. [Tackling the issue of impaired driving while not mentioning fatigue, prescription drugs, etc, does little to combat the real problems... and <a href="http://www.potanddriving.cpha.ca/images/camp.jpg" target="_blank">this campaign</a> has already been <a href="http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/uploads/1179918-go%20pills.jpg' target="_blank">hijacked by the truth.</a> |
| Nov 20, 2005 |
Pot and Your Pooch Dogs have been getting high on B.C. Bud for years, according to several local veterinarians who have treated pets who have ingested marijuana.However, there have been no cannabis-related deaths, says Brocklehouse. "They'd have to eat a helluva lot," says Shaw, speculating on what it would take before a canine OD-ed on marijuana, but that could change with any reconfiguration of street cannabis. |
| Nov 18, 2005 |
Drugs Sold In Local High Schools Police Say The Problem Is So Big They Can't Keep Up... Police now send drug-sniffing dogs and undercover officers into your children's schools as young pushers peddle marijuana, crack, cocaine and ecstasy to fellow students. [Again, drugs in schools has been around for over 30 years, yet the kids of today are subjected to tactics that will colour their view of authority forever] |
| Nov 15, 2005 |
Logic Says Legalize Drugs - Reality Says It Won't Happen For one thing, nobody can even pretend any more that prohibition works... So the illicit drug trade -- and the destructive, ineffective war on drugs -- will be with us, and with Afghanistan, for a long time. [Is that all we will ever conclude is that we should, but we won't?] |
| Nov 15, 2005 |
City Faces Lawsuit Over Raid On Legal Marijuana Growers Three medical marijuana advocates are suing the City of Vancouver for $400,000 after police raided a federally licensed indoor marijuana growing operation in the basement of a rented east Vancouver home. As of Nov. 4, 1,118 people were issued medical marijuana licences by Health Canada. In B.C., there are 217 licensed users. |
| Nov 12, 2005 |
Meet The Marijuana User Next Door Surprise: The Rank And File Of Canada's Multi-Billion-Dollar Pot Industry Look A lot Like You And Me Ever wondered how your neighbours managed to afford that Land Rover or the cash to cover their kids' private school tuition? Maybe they have a sideline: a secret, subterranean income booster in the form of a marijuana grow operation. To some that might sound scandalous, while others might wonder why they hadn't thought of it themselves. |
| Nov 12, 2005 |
Activist Accused Of Trying To Hijack Forum A pot activist who used a crowded rural forum to confront police Chief Brian Mullan says he'll keep speaking out at future meetings, despite being blasted by an irate city councillor. Councillor Margaret McCarthy says she had to tell two men to "sit down and shut up" because they tried to "hijack" the meeting this week in the old Flamborough town hall. [They just can't handle the truth...] |
| Nov 12, 2005 |
Hospital To Pot User: Buzz Off The Saskatoon Health Region's smoking policy was revised more than a year ago, but recently a patient discovered the air isn't completely clear on how to deal with authorized medical marijuana users in city hospitals. [Every hospital should be equipped with a vapourizer so med pot in hospitals doesn't become an issue... such an easy solution, so it will probably never be implemented.] |
| Nov 11, 2005 |
Facts Don't Support Crime Fears "In Canada, we think we don't have the crime and crime rates ( as they do in America ) but it is becoming very clear we can no longer be complacent in the face of rising crime levels in Canada and in B.C. in particular." The problem is that just isn't true. According to a July 2005 report from Statistics Canada, the national crime rate fell one per cent in 2004. [If the media always did their job of investigating "facts" we would see very different news articles about cannabis] |
| Nov 10, 2005 |
Police Rules Weren't Followed, Inquest Told The night Heather Benson died in RCMP custody, some regulations were not followed, a coroner's inquest heard Tuesday. Benson died while being transported by the RCMP from Tagish to Whitehorse, when the police cruiser rolled off the road and into the ditch. She was thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene of the accident as a result of chest wounds, on Sept. 27, 2003. Const. Jeff Monkman, who was driving the car, was convicted of careless driving in a trial held last February and fined $1,000. [This sums up everything that is wrong with the system as we know it] |
| Nov 9, 2005 |
Nailing Marijuana Growing Operations Delta police may have the best, and simplest, way to deal with illegal drug growers -- investigate, arrest and make sure criminal charges stick. |