Top Stories (2006) -
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| Feb 21, 2006 |
PUB LTE: Legalize Marijuana For Adults As the leader of the world's largest organization of police, judges and other criminal justice professionals who oppose the policy of drug Prohibition, I'd like to echo letter writer Robert Sharpe. Having the criminal justice system as the primary arm of public response to marijuana use is bad policy. The proposed law changes better mirror the common sense approach we use in response to the most addictive and dangerous drugs - alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceuticals. |
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| Feb 21, 2006 |
Happy Hippy Handed Heave-Ho Last week a local retail business, the Happy Hippy Hemp Shop, that sells glass pipes, bongs, rolling papers, and roach clips designed for smoking pot, has been asked to vacate its rented space on Oliver Street. Happy Hippy store owner, Mike Dery, says his landlord, Chuck Delainey, told him he had until the end of the |
| Feb 20, 2006 |
PUB LTE: B.C. Bud Here To Stay B.C. BUD HERE TO STAY So W.P. Kinsella and the supporters of Grow Watch think they are finally stamping out marijuana grow operations? Not likely. B.C. bud is here to stay, the demand and money associated with it are just too immense. It's a shame Kinsella, Grow Watch members and the RCMP fail to realize they are helping gangs such as the Hells Angels rather than eradicating them. Choosing to adopt these programs sends the organized crime syndicates laughing all the way to the bank. Christopher Nichols, Coquitlam |
| Feb 20, 2006 |
More Students Smoked Out In Pictou County Dope Sting Police keep arresting more students in a cleanup of alleged lunchtime dope dealing and smoking near a rural Pictou County school. Video surveillance has revealed up to 50 young people smoking marijuana outside an Alma convenience store popular with Northumberland Regional High School students. That allegedly includes the 13 students arrested in a dramatic police sweep of the store parking lot on Friday. |
| Feb 18, 2006 |
No Hydroponics Monitoring An Abbotsford city councillor is "not happy" with the provincial government after it ruled there will be no immediate implementation of a proposal to monitor businesses selling hydroponic equipment...On the hydroponics issue, the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General told the City of Abbotsford that implementing a record-keeping system "requires careful consideration of its implications for all businesses province-wide." As a result, it concluded that "further research" would have to be carried out before government moves forward. |
| Feb 18, 2006 |
True Justice Is Blind An Orangeville area man is charged after police bust a marijuana grow-op in his home, seizing almost 600 plants. A judge with the Ontario Superior Court later tosses out the charges after expressing criticism of the investigating officer's methods....An Ontario Provincial Police officer identified Nguyen and other Vietnamese Canadian community members through a land title search. He focused on them because of previous incidents of Vietnamese Canadians being involved in grow-ops. |
| Feb 17, 2006 |
Medical Marijuana User Clears Foul-Up A licensed medical marijuana user has had a criminal charge for pot production dropped -- and has had all his growing equipment returned by city police -- after a bureaucratic bungle left him without his medication for weeks. |
| Feb 17, 2006 |
Seeking Cannabis Compassion Fifteen people, a tiny downtown apartment and a man sick from AIDS with anywhere from one to five years to live. This is the heart of the Kelowna Compassion Club-the latest medical marijuana operation to grace B.C.'s map. |
| Feb 9, 2006 |
PUB LTE: Pot Coverage One-Sided POT COVERAGE ONE-SIDED I've been reading about the waste of taxpayers' money in the arrest of Tom Shapiro and family in the medical cannabis case in Regina. Now The SP prints this rubbish about grow-ops causing damage to homes. Does this include all homes that have plants, or is it just homes with cannabis plants? How can a paper that says it abides with responsible reporting print such one-sided propaganda? Ed Burwell Saskatoon |
| Feb 8, 2006 |
PUB LTE: Ignore The Reefer Madness GNORE THE REEFER MADNESS Editor: Re: Whatever happened to the pot debate? Thomas Barker, Barking at the Big Dog, Houston Today, Jan. 25. Rather than continue to subsidize organized crime, Canadian policymakers should ignore the reefer madness hysteria of the U.S. government and instead to look their own Senate for guidance. In the words of Senator Pierre Claude Nolin: "Scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates that cannabis is substantially less harmful than alcohol and should be treated not as a criminal issue but as a social and public health issue." Robert Sharpe Washington, D.C. |
| Feb 8, 2006 |
Council's Cannabis Confab Cancelled-Sort Of It took two years for Victoria's city council to set up a meeting with Health Canada about medical marijuana, but it would seem the federal agency balked when the city said the meeting had to be open to the public. |
| Feb 7, 2006 |
PUB LTE: Is The Cost Of War On Weed Worth The Price? Forty per cent of all Canadian 15 year olds admit to having used marijuana. It is a commodity that many Canadians want. The United States Homeland Security Department is in the process of pouring over $1 billion into Bellingham to upgrade their land, sea and air surveillance of this sector of their border. In spite of the hundreds of cameras and remote controlled drones marijuana is flowing into their country. Local prices have almost doubled in the last year. |
| Feb 6, 2006 |
Feds Go After Pot Users For $170,000 Debt OTTAWA ( CP ) - Like any dope dealer, Health Canada has its share of marijuana customers who just don't pay their bills. But unlike street pushers, the department avoids tire irons and switchblades to recover its bad debts in favour of stern letters and collection agencies. [Cutting off medical users who can't pay for taxpayer funded pot adds insult to injury for the poor and disenfranchised. Instead they will have to see how they fare with not paying their local dealers.] |
| Feb 3, 2006 |
LTE: Troubled By Youth's View Of Marijuana TROUBLED BY YOUTH'S VIEW OF MARIJUANA As an educator and counsellor of teens, I have felt the need to write about the apparent acceptance, by many, of marijuana use as a harmless pastime. My need to write was heightened after observing student reactions to a recent all-candidates meeting and the student "practice" federal election held in area schools. The Marijuana Party candidate received cheers, support and significant votes from many students. |
| Feb 3, 2006 |
Marijuana Activists Fuming Over Arrest Medical marijuana advocates are angry over the treatment of a Regina AIDS patient who was arrested after his marijuana licence expired. Tom Shapiro was handcuffed, along with his wife and son, for four hours while police tried to determine his status in Health Canada's medical marijuana program, said an official with the Canadian AIDS Society. [Welcome to the new Conservative government and the way things will be done now. Oh, where did some of the biggest websites like Overgrow.com go?} |
| Feb 2, 2006 |
Concert Staff Ignored Pot Smokers: Upset Mom Ellis, her nine-year-old daughter and two nieces, aged eight and 10, are all big fans of Nickelback, and Ellis thought it would be fun to take the kids to the Jan. 26 show. "I was naive. I've had people say to me, 'You should have done some research.' I never did," Ellis said. "Now that I know, it was irresponsible of me, but prior to ( the concert ) I was unaware and naive. I'm terribly upset with myself that I put my kids in this position." Ellis said she was forced to leave her seat, children in tow, as a man sitting near her lit up, even after she announced marijuana and children do not mix. [What can you say about a parent who either has amnesia or has never been to a rock concert in their life, but decides to take very young children to one, then discovers pot is smoked at concerts, and turns it into a media event? And why did the media go along?] |
| Jan 28, 2006 |
Delta Police Issue Warning On Meth-Laced Marijuana "The police have received information that this is occurring in order to facilitate a new addiction to methamphetamines in those that are using marijuana recreationally or in a social capacity," said media liaison officer Const. Kim Sheridan. [If public safety was the top priority for public funds, then wouldn't the public enjoy the protection of a regulated market? If even their pet food is regulated, why can't substances they may ingest be too?] |
| Jan 27, 2006 |
PUB LTE: Media Offers Biased Coverage Not to mention the fact that if the media had ever reported honestly and factually about the connection between marijuana prohibition and gun-violence, the results of this election would have been much different. A truly disgusting railroading of democracy. |
| Jan 27, 2006 |
Pot Activist Obeys Deportation Order To US VANCOUVER -- Before his deportation to California yesterday, Steven Kubby gathered his wife and two daughters to his side. |
| Jan 27, 2006 |
CN BC:
CN BC: Bylaw Aimed At Paraphernalia, Hydroponic Sales The city can't ban outright the sale of drug paraphernalia or hydroponic equipment that can also be used for indoor marijuana grow operations, but charging a hefty licence fee and setting up a buyers' registry would make those who want to trade in those markets think twice. [Big brother takes aim... again] |