Top Stories (2005) -
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| Aug 24, 2005 |
Convicted In Pot Case, Man Loses His Home To Crown VANCOUVER -- A homeowner who pleaded guilty to growing marijuana in his house has become the first person in British Columbia to see his home forcibly taken by the federal government. ...Mr. Luu's lawyer, Jay Solomon, argued in Surrey Provincial Court that seizure of the house was an inordinate sanction relative to the offence. [This story is scary for several reasons, but mainly for what it doesn't say... how many plants does it take to lose your home? 5? 10? 300?] |
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| Aug 24, 2005 |
Pot Issue The 'Perfect Storm' The Marc Emery case, in which Canada appears complicit with the United States in bringing to "justice" Vancouver's most prominent potrepreneur, may bring this still-peripheral issue to the front burner of Canadian politics. |
| Aug 23, 2005 |
No Place For Texas Rangers Increasing Presence Of American Agents Is Making A Mockery Of Canadian Values |
| Aug 22, 2005 |
CN ON:
Up in Smoke: Pot Users Blaze A Trail Hamilton - City Hall was the scene of a marijuana smoke out over the weekend as 300 users lit up to celebrate Canabian Day. |
| Aug 22, 2005 |
Marijuana Mayhem Ont - Three people face charges after a scuffle with police at Hamilton's marijuana cafe. |
| Aug 21, 2005 |
Cross-Border Policing Poses Sovereignty Risk, Canadian VANCOUVER -- The U.S. attorney prosecuting three Canadians suspected of digging a tunnel with the purpose of moving drugs across the border will ask a Seattle judge next week to seize the Fraser Valley property on which the tunnel was constructed. [Soveriegnty is a national illusion for any country if the U.S. deems it so ] |
| Aug 21, 2005 |
Hemp Crop A Field Of Dreams For B.C. Clothing Company Hemptown Clothing Inc. of Vancouver and the National Research Council are entering the second year of a three-year collaboration on a new enzyme technology for processing hemp fibre. [The fledgling hemp industry will become more substantial when the reality of peak oil sets in] |
| Aug 20, 2005 |
Hydroponic Store Owners Should Help Us If indoor growing supply shops tracked customer purchases and informed police of suspicious buys, it would make stopping large-scale marijuana operations easier...But....."A lot of our customers are vegetable growers concerned about pesticides and preservatives and those that want to grow their own vegetables year-round," [The lengths the police must go to continue this war on consensual "crime" is nothing short of mind boggling] |
| Aug 19, 2005 |
PUB LTE: I Am A Canadian I have learned that alcohol does more harm in our society than pot. Pot is actually helpful as a medical aid to many people. Booze is not. I am not a Canerican. |
| Aug 18, 2005 |
Irrationality In Canada's Drug Policy Eugene Oscapella is an Ottawa Lawyer who teaches drug policy in the department of criminology at the University of Ottawa. He is also founding member of an independent, not for profit research group and think tank called the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy. He was able to share his thoughts on Canada's cannabis laws. |
| Aug 18, 2005 |
Senior Sentenced For Tobacco, Pot A southern Alberta man was fined $20,000 Wednesday for illegally manufacturing tobacco in the largest operation of its kind in Western Canada.....was also sentenced to 90 days in jail for producing marijuana [Where corporate control and prohibition meet] |
| Aug 16, 2005 |
Emery Says Seed Clients Being Set Up B.C. pot activist and former Londoner Marc Emery yesterday warned his marijuana seed customers their orders may have been intercepted by U.S. justice officials. |
| Aug 16, 2005 |
Judge Slams US Drug War The United States' war on drugs is based around hypocrisy, ignorance and greed, says a Californian judge who was in Vancouver yesterday at the Canadian Bar Association's annual legal conference. "We couldn't do it worse if we tried" |
| Aug 13, 2005 |
This Johnny Appleseed Is Wanted by the Law New York Times: - FRESHLY released on bail, Marc Emery faced the camera of his Pot-TV.net Web site the other day to make an urgent appeal for money to finance his legal struggle to avert extradition to the United States for trafficking marijuana seeds south of the border |
| Aug 13, 2005 |
Legalize Pot, Focus Sights On Crystal Meth The arguments for legalizing pot to better fight hard drugs are so strong that Ottawa's failure to move in that direction seems to be due to outside pressure. <strong>Either it's organized crime, hoping to keep pot illegal to keep profits flowing, or it's police agencies -- domestic or American -- nervous that their budgets will be slashed if this bogeyman is removed. </strong> [Only police and organized crime support prohibition, yet that seems to be all it takes] |
| Aug 12, 2005 |
Canada Goes To Pot Emery was jailed in Saskatchewan for passing a joint. In Saskatoon they call that "trafficking." On the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, they call it "Saturday." |
| Aug 11, 2005 |
Pot Party Seeks Local Grassroots The Marijuana Party says it plans to put down roots in central Canada once it gets approval to organize a riding association in Windsor -- the party's first Electoral District Association ( EDA ) south of Nunavut. |
| Aug 10, 2005 |
Officer Pleads Guilty A police officer, who coordinated a program to wipe out marijuana outdoor grow operations, fed information about the location of the crops to two men so that they could harvest the pot before police raids, a court has heard. |
| Aug 9, 2005 |
They're High On Hemp Hemp people can be like religious zealots, going on and on about the benefits of "the world's strongest natural fibre." ...All sorts of mainstream companies are jumping on the hemp bandwagon. |
| Aug 5, 2005 |
US WA:
<h3>DEA Chief admits politcal persecution in Emery seed case</h3> <strong>US WA: Column: Pursuit of Drug Case All Smoke, No Fire</strong><br> Seeking to stop his extradition to the United States -- where he faces charges of trafficking in marijuana seeds -- Emery's legal team could use Tandy's words to telling effect: Their client is being prosecuted for his beliefs. "Today's arrest of Mark ( sic ) Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement." "Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on." [Targeting citizens for their political views and trying to silence them is against the rules.... but when has that ever mattered? Will the government of Canada do the right thing? Not something we could ever count on.] |