Top Stories (2005) -
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| Sep 27, 2005 |
CN NS:
Pot Accused Seeks Jury Trial A Maccan man who says he was growing marijuana to help himself and 300 others with medical conditions including cancer has asked to be tried in Nova Scotia Supreme Court on three charges stemming from a police raid on his property last month that netted more than 1,200 marijuana plants. |
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| Sep 27, 2005 |
Families Of Slain Mounties Seek Harder Drug Law The family members, still scarred by the shooting deaths of the officers by a violent outcast near Mayerthorpe, Alta., called on the government to scrap the marijuana bill and introduce mandatory minimum jail sentences for those who grow cannabis on a commercial scale. [How unfortunate that the families of the slain Mounties would exploit their deaths to lobby for tougher sentences on cannabis and organized crime, particularly when the garden was incidental to the police being called in to assist in a car repossession. Instead, the families should be demanding an investigation into why the police brass chose to send the victims to assist at the residence of a "cop-hater" without appropriate precautions which could have possibly spared their lives, especially when full-geared SWAT teams are sent in to take down an individual tending a few plants. That is the real issue that gets clouded over in the rush to further demonize cannabis. It is also unfortunate that many professions have much higher on-the-job fatalities than police work, yet this is never acknowledged. See: <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v05/n1545/a07.html">Pot & Murder</a>] |
| Sep 26, 2005 |
CN AB:
Activist Wants Pot Charges Dropped Max Cornelssen, 63, will be in Court of Queen's Bench, Edmonton, on Oct. 13 to demand the charges against him - cultivation and possession with intent to distribute - be dropped, because Parliament has not re-enacted a section of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act that prohibits people from growing ganja. [Technically, cannabis is legal in Canada, yet this is ignored and the persecution that still goes on day in and day out until it is acknowledged by a court - but that's where politics and corruption come in] |
| Sep 25, 2005 |
Cannabis: A Harmless Soft Drug? Increasingly potent and widely used, marijuana can wreak havoc on the lives of many people. While certain effects are still not clearly understood and vary from one individual to the next, the risks connected to marijuana consumption are, nonetheless, very real. [The risk of being arrested is by far the worse effect of cannabis] |
| Sep 24, 2005 |
CN BC:
Smith Beats Marijuana Cookie Rap Ted Smith, Victoria's high-profile champion of medical marijuana, has beaten a trafficking charge on appeal....On Thursday, Smith received a letter from the federal Department of Justice saying it had reviewed his appeal and decided he should be granted a new trial. The Crown, however, has determined it will not proceed and will ask the Court of Appeal to enter an acquittal. [There is something very wrong with society when baking cookies for ill people can land you in jail] |
| Sep 23, 2005 |
A Green Light To Grow The legal avenues for growing pot legally in B.C. are more convoluted than a corn maze. People with licenses issued by Health Canada to use marijuana for its medicinal benefits not only deal with municipal bylaws and Health Canada regulations, but they have to surrender their personal information to police so they won't get busted. |
| Sep 22, 2005 |
CN ON:
Charge Withdrawn Against Local Marijuana Activist Rick Reimer said authorities withdrew a charge of being intoxicated in a public place during a court appearance last week in Annapolis Royal, N.S. Mr. Reimer, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, has a medical exemption from Health Canada to use marijuana to alleviate the symptoms of his disease. He was smoking a marijuana cigarette when he asked an RCMP officer to check in with security when entering the festival grounds. |
| Sep 19, 2005 |
Pioneering Decriminalization But the point here is that I remember thinking how amazing it was that something so harmless as pot smoking would bring about such retribution. Growing up in Ontario, I watched the smog and suburban infiltration plow ahead unchecked, or in some cases, even encouraged. |
| Sep 19, 2005 |
Dog Search Sends Signal Drugs and alcohol do not belong in a school setting. That's a great message to send to all students in Edson whether or not they attend Parkland Composite High School. Last Thursday's school search using an RCMP dog will hopefully hammer into students' minds that they shouldn't be messing with drugs. Otherwise, they are messing with their future. [Have they ever stopped to ask the students exactly what message is being hammered into thier heads with the heavy handed tactics? Didn't think so...] |
| Sep 19, 2005 |
CN SN:
Pot Laws Protested At Weekend Event A couple of hundred people protested Canada's pot laws by hanging out in a downtown Saskatoon park Saturday afternoon....Saskatoon's event was one of more than 40 protests around the globe. Many of the events overseas were staged at Canadian embassies or consulates. |
| Sep 19, 2005 |
CN MB:
Dauphin Lays Claim As Hemp Capital With 80 per cent of the continent's narcotic-free hemp grown here, and one of the world's largest hemp fibre plants slated for construction next year, Dauphin is laying claim as Canada's hemp capital. |
| Sep 19, 2005 |
Police Losing Battle Over Pot, Says Prof Police are losing the war against pot and it's time to make it legal and regulate the cultivation and use of it, says Eugene Oscapella, an Ottawa University criminology teacher who co-founded the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy. |
| Sep 18, 2005 |
CN ON:
Police Crack Grow Op Worth $21 Million West Grey Police uncovered a marijuana grow operation worth $21.2 million on a farm in the former Bentinck Township Sunday morning. About 9,000 plants ranging from four to six feet high were seized. A truck filled with approximately 1,250 pounds of marijuana bud in black plastic garbage bags ready for transportation was also seized. |
| Sep 17, 2005 |
Pot Use Puts Parents On The Spot A CAS worker had showed up unannounced at their East Mountain home saying she was investigating Baby Christian's welfare based on this written report filed by Sutthery on Aug. 30: "I, officer Sutthery, had a conversation with the owner of the pot cafe in which Chris Goodwin admitted to using marijuana every day. Goodwin also said his wife uses every day." With those two sentences, an investigation and a political firestorm were launched. [Parents are allowed to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes in front of their children, but as usual, all perspective is lost when it comes to cannabis] |
| Sep 16, 2005 |
'Green Tide' Of Asian Grow-Ops Moving East FREDERICTON ( CP ) - Police in New Brunswick say the seizure of more than 40,000 marijuana plants in the past few days is proof that Asian crime lords are moving their operations east. [Actually, it is just proof that prohibition will continue to fuel pot production for profit - it seems to make cops and criminals happy, but no one else seems to like it] |
| Sep 16, 2005 |
CN NT:
Pot Party Candidate Charged With Trafficking "It's Really A Badge Of Honour For Us Rather Than A Stigma" Nunavut's Marijuana Party candidate appeared in court this week to face long-standing charges of drug trafficking and money laundering. |
| Sep 15, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Canada's Prisons Don't Compare To Club Med As owner and operator of the Manitoba Compassion Club I went to jail for six months for producing and distributing cannabis to the ill. Let me assure Ms. Sims jail is not exactly Club Med. Jail dehumanizes people. |
| Sep 15, 2005 |
CN NS:
Duo Praise Hemp's Value ...To that end, he and Anne have a staggering ambition. Along with their supporters, they want nothing less than to bring a $25-million bio-refinery to Nova Scotia. It would use steam to turn hemp and other plant material into non-polluting fuel alternatives like ethanol and biodegradable substances with all the flexibility of plastic. [More signs of the growing hemp industry!] |
| Sep 14, 2005 |
Spokesperson Denied Agent Status Two Pasqua First Nation men charged in connection with a large marijuana grow operation found on the reserve in August were told Tuesday that their spokesperson, who was seeking to represent them legally in court, would not be given agent status. |
| Sep 14, 2005 |
Pot Coming To Pharmacies OTTAWA -- Health Canada's long-delayed plan to sell government-certified marijuana in drugstores appears to be back on track for early next year. [This has already been discussed enough, that seeing is believing] |