Top Stories (2006) -
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| Apr 21, 2006 |
Toking Up In Steeltown HAMILTON -- Steeltown turned into Hamiltoke yesterday as cannabis connoisseurs descended on the steps of city hall for a "pot-in." |
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| Apr 21, 2006 |
Reefer Madness More than 1,000 stoners converged onto the government lawn on Broadway to smoke a doobie and salute the high times of 4-20 ( April 20 ), or Stoner's New Year, as it's known in "greener" circles. |
| Apr 19, 2006 |
The House That Hemp Built But did you know that hemp - yes, that stuff you make ropes out of and that resembles marijuana - can be used to build houses? While the fibrous ends of the plant can be used for paper, clothing and food products, the woody stalk of the plant - called the hurd - can be used in bricks, cement, and plaster. Builders have compressed the hurds with glue and other natural chemicals and created particle board and hemp-filled "wood" that can be used as building frames. |
| Apr 18, 2006 |
Officer Faces New Charges Federal Crown prosecutor Fergus O'Donnell told Justice Ian Cowan yesterday new charges will be laid against Peel Cst. Sheldon Cook after new information is filed in the court during the officer's next scheduled appearance, April 28. |
| Apr 17, 2006 |
Grow Op Law Erodes Your Right To Privacy Footnote: If the main marijuana public-policy issues are the risks of grow-ops in neighbourhoods and the role of criminal gangs in profiting from the industry, a different response should be considered. Allowing people to grow a handful of plants without penalty would reduce the threat to neighbourhoods and the available profits for gangs. |
| Apr 14, 2006 |
Judge Throws Out Grow Op Charges Police Ammeter Use Ruled Illegal, A Rights Violation Two men have been acquitted of charges relating to a 354-plant marijuana grow operation in an Airdrie home because the judge ruled police violated their charter rights. |
| Apr 12, 2006 |
Legalize Street Drugs, Ex-Cop Urges Retired Seattle police chief Norm Stamper pulled no punches Tuesday when he told a Fraser Institute lunch crowd the War Against Drugs is an abject failure. After spending $1 trillion since president Richard Nixon declared the war in 1969, the U.S. has a worse drug problem than before, Stamper said. He blamed every subsequent U.S. federal administration for maintaining an immoral, inefficient and uneconomical policy that is corrupting institutions, destroying neighbourhoods and endangering children. Canada has been doing the same. The current criminal prohibition, Stamper said, is being kept in place by a coalition he called the Drug Enforcement Industry -- President George W. Bush, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, some police, the wine and alcohol producers and organized crime. |
| Apr 12, 2006 |
American-Based Firms More Likely To Test You For Drugs B.C., Alta. Have High Percentage Of Firms With A U.S. Head Office You're more likely to be tested for drugs in the workplace if you work for an American-based company. |
| Apr 11, 2006 |
McGill's Grass Gets Greener: New Club Lobbies For When drug enforcement agents from around the world gather in Montreal next month, they will be greeted by a protest organized by a newly-formed McGill club. In collaboration with a number of organizations, including Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, McGill's National Reefer Association ( NRA ) will be organizing a symposium involving former agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ), criminology professors, and a police chief from Florida. The DEA has been invited to this conference, but has not yet responded. |
| Apr 10, 2006 |
Civil Liberties Union Opposes Proposed Amendments A proposed law aimed at locating marijuana grow operations could be a valuable weapon in the battle to drive them from the North Shore, say authorities, but the proposed rule change is also raising hackles among privacy advocates. If passed Bill 25, The Safety Standards Amendment Act, introduced in the provincial legislature Thursday, will grant municipalities the right to access electricity records of BC Hydro customers without going through the judicial system. Under the proposed law, local governments could then pass on any of that information to their police force for further investigation. [Day by day, our rights slip away...] |
| Apr 7, 2006 |
Pot Activist Not Giving Up A Supreme Court justice in Chilliwack might have dismissed medical marijuana activist Brian Carlisle's application to get back his equipment this week but he still considers the court appearance a victory of sorts. |
| Apr 6, 2006 |
With US In Decline, Canada Must Step Up Pot Economy No matter the long-term outcome of the American empire, there is little doubt that its golden years have passed. Their oil's almost gone, they're getting attacked on their own land by an enemy they can't even identify and they're despised by most of the world.....Canada is stunting its growth by prohibiting pot. Inject marijuana-related income into our GDP and we'll not only be richer, we'll gain respect....We're not even playing our best cards yet. |
| Apr 6, 2006 |
Chief Pans Legal Pot A former Vancouver mayor's call to legalize marijuana had Calgary's top cop on the defensive yesterday, with police Chief Jack Beaton saying he'll never accept pot as harmless. |
| Apr 6, 2006 |
Medical Marijuana Company Heralds Its Public Offering TORONTO -- It's not every company that heralds its public debut with Moses Znaimer, the co-founder of CityTV, on one side and a bag of marijuana from the Canadian government on the other. But that's exactly how Cannasat Therapeutics Inc. did it Wednesday. Cannasat bills itself as one of a handful of companies in the world that is researching and developing medicines derived from cannabis plants. [A development to watch...] |
| Apr 3, 2006 |
Former Police Chief Critical of Harper's Drug Move The former chief of the Seattle police, Norm Stamper, was in Calgary lifting weights in a hotel gym on Monday, at the same time as Canada's conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, appeared on television in a live broadcast of his speech to the Canadian Professional Police Association's meeting in Ottawa. |
| Apr 1, 2006 |
It All Tastes Good at This Pot Cafe Hot Box Cafe 191A Baldwin St., Toronto, 416-203-6990. Dinner for two with tax and tip, $30. What is a restaurant critic doing covering a marijuana cafe? If a Kensington spot lets people smoke wacky tobaccy on its premises, that isn't my purview. Until they start serving food. |
| Mar 30, 2006 |
Marijuana Advocate Loses Case, Hit With Fine Mr. Turmel, a professional gambler and a medicinal marijuana advocate, was fined $1,000, given three years probation and told to perform 100 hours of community service after he was found guilty of a 2003 offence of possessing marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. |
| Mar 29, 2006 |
Judge Acquits Accused Toker A man accused of toking and driving was found not guilty yesterday after a judge found there was no way to assess the effect pot might have had on the man. |
| Mar 28, 2006 |
$10m Of Pot Worth Six Years In Prison He's gone from carpenter to drug exporter, and now Daren Wayne Smith will be a federal inmate for his role in an unprecedented scheme that saw in excess of $10 million worth of marijuana pass through Saskatchewan's borders. |
| Mar 27, 2006 |
Victoria Mayor Offers Support To Medical Pot Users Victoria's mayor has thrown his support behind local medicinal pot users and called upon Health Canada to conduct an immediate review of how it provides medical marijuana to Canadians. A presentation to council by local compassion clubs last month prompted Alan Lowe to draft a letter to federal Health Minister Tony Clement criticizing public access to the Federal Marijuana Medical Access Regulation program. |