Top Stories (2005) -
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| Oct 18, 2005 |
Pot Less of a Cancer Risk Than Tobacco, Study Suggests Marijuana smokers are less likely to contract cancer than cigarette smokers, new research suggests. While cannabis and tobacco smoke are chemically similar, the key difference is that cigarettes contain nicotine, which appears to bolster the cancer-causing properties of tobacco, while cannabis contains tetrahydrocannabinol ( THC, the active ingredient in pot ), which may actually reduce the carcinogenic properties of some chemicals. [Thousands and thousands of dollars are spent to confirm what thousands and thousands of years of anedoctal evidence tells us - politics is the only reason this plant was ever illegal] |
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| Oct 18, 2005 |
Health Officers Want Drug Law Changes B.C. public health officers are demanding the government decriminalize drug offences because the war on illicit substances is an abysmal failure. ...They say the laws are based on racism and cultural biases, not evidence of harm, and that the prohibition causes far more damage to health and to society. LINK: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/bz4s4" "_blank">A Public Health Approach to Drug Control in Canada</a> (PDF, 38 pgs - 238K) |
| Oct 15, 2005 |
CN BC:
Time To 'Declare Peace In War On Drugs' He's run for political office more times than a family of 10 runs a bath, and fans of Tim Felger will be pleased to hear he is not slowing down his efforts. In fact, rather than going for one position this municipal election, the pro-marijuana candidate is doubling his efforts by running for council in Abbotsford and for the vacant mayor's post in Mission. |
| Oct 15, 2005 |
CN BC:
Marijuana Activist Sentenced To One Day In Jail After Marijuana activist Ted Smith was sentenced to one day in jail Friday, the lowest allowable sentence on his particular drug conviction for cannabis cookies. [Where are the sanity checks when someone can be convicted for giving away cookies made with a substance less toxic than the other cookie ingredients? ] |
| Oct 13, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Health Canada's Price For Medical Pot Absurd Health Canada states on its website that this inferior weed is to be sold at a set price of $5 per gram, or around $150 an ounce. This is ridiculous, as the production cost for marijuana can run as low as one to four cents per gram, depending on the growing method. |
| Oct 13, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Hemp Will Solve Oil Woes If people would just Google the words "industrial hemp," they'd find that there is a simple answer to all of our energy and gasoline problems. We don't need prime land to grow hemp. It will grow big on even marginal soil. It's really quite simple. Russell Barth |
| Oct 13, 2005 |
Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth According to the study in rats, a super-potent synthetic version of the cannabinoid compound found in marijuana can reduce depression and anxiety when taken over an extended period of time. ...."I think most people with clinical expertise in the area of palliative medicine know that if patients had access to all the tools we currently have, we could certainly do a whole lot better to help people live with multiple chronic diseases," he added. "The social policies are way behind our technology, and that's where we need some catching up." [For every beneficial study such as this, 5 more junk science claiming psychosis are trotted out, but our collective experience of cannabis precedes the scientific knowledge ] |
| Oct 13, 2005 |
Man Sent Back To The U.S. With Catheter Still Attached A U.S. army veteran who fled to Canada to avoid prosecution because he grew marijuana to help control chronic pain was yanked from a hospital by Canadian authorities and, with a catheter still attached, turned over to U.S. officials who provided him with no medical treatment for five days, his lawyer said. |
| Oct 12, 2005 |
Grow Ops Are Dangerous, Police Say Because of the potential dangers involved in dismantling a marijuana grow operation the OPP have changed how they deal with them. In earlier years he said they went in quickly and dismantled the operation quickly but that often left the officers exposed to a number of potentially dangerous situations and to the possibility of developing long-term health problems because of their exposure to chemicals and mold. Today the officer explained they don't rush into grow operations and when they do go in they wear protective clothing and a ventilator masks. They also wear boots that protect them from electrical shocks. [Perhaps the public was associating cannabis growing to harmless plant/flower growing, whereas the police want to associate pot growing/meth lab dangers. The propagnada machine runs in high gear] |
| Oct 12, 2005 |
CN BC:
Pilot Pot Project Will Be Permanent By '06 A pilot program that hits marijuana growers in the pocketbook will become permanent by 2006 in Abbotsford. ...The project was based on local government's jurisdiction through the Community Charter, the Fire Services Act, the B.C. Building Code and the Controlled Substance Bylaw to inspect homes that may pose a threat to public safety. |
| Oct 12, 2005 |
CN BC:
City Targets Hydroponic Sales Gaetz said it is not possible to prohibit the sale of hydroponic equipment, particularly as the items can be used for legitimate agricultural purposes, such as growing tomatoes. Rather the plan would be to regulate the sales by calling for information from the purchaser such as who they are and what they intend to use the product. [The desperate war on pot will keep going to any extreme for it's continuance] |
| Oct 7, 2005 |
Officer To Stand Trial On Drug Charges A police officer facing numerous charges spanning several years and jurisdictions will stand trial on local charges next week, a judge has ruled, despite a bid from the crown for more time to scrutinize new information brought forth by the defence. Ned Maodus, 41, a former resident of Mono, is a senior drug investigator with Metro Toronto Police who, along with five other officers, faces drug related charges and allegations of wrongdoing. |
| Oct 7, 2005 |
US Activist Taken from Vancouver ER In Handcuffs to US Border. Shortly after 2PM this afternoon, I witnessed something that will bring shame to Canada. Steve Tuck was taken in handcuffs by Canadian Border Services Enforcement officers out of his emergency room bed and driven to the US border. |
| Oct 6, 2005 |
Kid Cannabis How a Chubby Pizza-Delivery Boy From Idaho Became a Drug Kingpin:<br> Nate Norman was hanging out with his buddy Topher Clark when he came up with The Idea. The two friends were sitting around Nate's house, a dumpy little place near the cemetery, and both of them were extremely stoned. And yet The Idea had more legs than your typical pot-inspired idea. It did not involve a second Twinkie inside the first one. It did not involve genetically modifying the bugs so their blood would not be blood but windshield-wiper fluid. It was, in fact, based on a practical application of global economic theory. That, and cheap weed in Canada. [ Many enterprising kids realize they can make far more money selling pot than be expoited at McJobs. Eventually the pot sellers buy the business and hire the pot buyers to work for them... it's all spelled it in <a href'="http://www.narconews.com/narcodollars1.html" target="_blank">Narco-Dollars for Beginners</a> A MUST READ ] |
| Oct 6, 2005 |
Marijuana and Youth Culture Ground-breaking study looks at teenage attitudes By Hilary Thomson Is it therapeutic, harmless or addictive? Adult opinions about marijuana vary widely, but what do teenagers think about using marijuana and how do their perceptions influence their use? That?s what Nursing Prof. Joy Johnson wants to find out in a three-year study that begins this month.... |
| Oct 6, 2005 |
Marijuana Effective Against Morning Sickness: Study While women are traditionally told to avoid drugs and alcohol during pregnancy, one researcher from each of the Vancouver Island and B.C. Compassion Societies and the University of B.C. and the University of Victoria looked to see if pregnant therapeutic users of medical marijuana reported relief from their nausea and vomiting. The researchers found that 92 per cent of the women surveyed rated pot's effect on morning-sickness symptoms as either "very effective" or "effective." |
| Oct 4, 2005 |
Marijuana Refugee Faces Deportation Steven Tuck, one of a number of high-profile American medical marijuana refugees, is hoping an 11th-hour appeal to the Federal Court will halt his Immigration Canada-ordered return to the U.S. [Oct. 8, UPDATE: Steve has been seized from a hospital bed in B.C. and taken to a US jail in Washington. See: <a href="http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=856" target="_blank">Marijuana News</a> |
| Oct 1, 2005 |
Mounties avoiding oversight, complaints commissioner says The head of the RCMP complaints commission says the Mounties are hiding behind the cloak of national security to keep her from investigating allegations of a late-night raid at a private residence that resulted in no charges but thoroughly traumatized a family....The Mounties resist civilian oversight because they have an "us-against-them mentality," says Ms. Heafey, who will retire from the commission later this month after seven years. [The longer the RCMP are allowed to continue in this manner, the worse the policing situation will become] |
| Sep 30, 2005 |
Canadian to File Charges Against Marijuana Activist VANCOUVER - A private citizen says he's filing charges Friday against marijuana activist Marc Emery and two of his associates, partly because that will throw a wrench into the United States' plans to extradite the trio to face drug charges in that country. |
| Sep 29, 2005 |
City Hiring More Police City council has approved the hiring of two police officers under a provincial officer partnership program. The two officers will tackle the issues of youth and organized crime, marijuana grow-ops and methamphetamine labs. [More jobs for cops... isn't that what prohibition is all about and why they lobby so intensely for it?] |