Top Stories (2006) -
(313 items)
(All links open in new tab)
| Jan 27, 2006 |
Rottweiler Shot Dead In Police Raid On Apartment A drug raid on a downtown apartment that netted a few grams of cocaine and marijuana ended in police shooting a Rottweiler dead when the dog attacked officers as they stormed through the door. |
|---|---|
| Jan 27, 2006 |
Medical Marijuna Refugee Steve Kubby Arrested Medical marijuana refugee Steve Kubby was taken to the Placer County jail today to begin serving a 4-month sentence on drug possession charges. Supporters are fearful that he will not survive in jail without access to medical marijuana. Kubby has used cannabis exclusively to treat a rare form of adrenal cancer, pheochromocytoma , since the 1980s, and is thought to be the longest living survivor of the disease. <a href="http://canorml.org/news/kubbyarrested.htm" target="_blank">[ Read more....]</a> |
| Jan 26, 2006 |
Home Grow-Op His Right, Says Spurned Renter A B.C. medical marijuana user has taken his right to grow pot in a rental home to the Human Rights Tribunal. Vandale Smith told a landlord he intended to grow marijuana in the rental home, and was licensed to do so by Health Canada. [Discrimination, persecution... all the hallmarks are there] |
| Jan 26, 2006 |
Growing For The Neighbourhood The Fraser Institute estimates there are 17,500 grow-ops in the province, part of a multi-billion dollar provincial industry they estimate could translate into $2 billion of annual tax revenue....About 50,000 Canadians are arrested each year for marijuana-related offences and hundreds of thousands of Canadians already have criminal records for simple possession of marijuana. |
| Jan 25, 2006 |
CN NS:
Pot Charges Result In Challenge To Charter AMHERST -- A Maccan man who says he was growing marijuana to help himself and 300 others with medical conditions is launching a Charter of Rights challenge in the hopes of squashing several drug charges that have been laid against him.... The charter challenge will be filed with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court on March 6. |
| Jan 24, 2006 |
ELECTION 2006: ANOTHER CASE OF ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION <br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0"> <tr><th class="hpt1">CON </th><th class="hpt1">124 </th><th class="hpt1">(36.25%)</th><th class="hpt1"> | </th><th class="hpt1">NDP </th><th class="hpt1">29</th><th class="hpt1">(17.49%)</th></tr> <tr><th class="hpt1">LIB</th><th class="hpt1">103</th><th class="hpt1">(30.22%)</th><th class="hpt1"> | </th><th class="hpt1">IND</th><th class="hpt1">1</th><th class="hpt1">(.52%)</th></tr> <tr><th class="hpt1">BQ</th><th class="hpt1">51</th><th class="hpt1">(10.48%)</th><th class="hpt1"> | </th><th class="hpt1">OTH </th><th class="hpt1">0</th><th class="hpt1">(5.05%) </th></tr> </table> <br> <a href="http://www.harperstiestousa.org/" target="_blank"><b>Victory for US?</b></a><br><br> Once again, Canada?s antiquated first-past-the-post system wasted millions of votes, distorted results, severely punished large blocks of voters, exaggerated regional differences, created an unrepresentative Parliament, and may possibly have even given us the wrong government. |
| Jan 24, 2006 |
Medical Marijuana Advocate Must Leave VANCOUVER ( CP ) -- After losing his last legal challenge to stay in Canada, medical marijuana advocate Steve Kubby has been told to leave the country by Thursday. |
| Jan 21, 2006 |
CN NS:
No Progress For Man Trying To Get Pot Back TRURO -- John Cook will have to wait another couple of months to get his pot back from the authorities. The medicinal marijuana activist from Halifax has been trying since May 2005 to get a 500-gram package of marijuana -- valued at $7,500 - -- back from police. Officers seized it as he was trying to ship it by bus last January to one of his clients in Springhill. |
| Jan 20, 2006 |
Judge Says Cancer Victim, Steve Kubby, Must Be Sent to US Denies Appeal to Stop Removal Order. Claims Kubby Will Not Be Arrested Despite Statement by California Prosecutor. Claims Prop 215 Protects Patients, Despite Fact No US Jails Allow Medical Cannabis Use. Family Fears He Will Die in US. VANCOUVER -- Canadian Federal Justice, Yvon Pinard, ruled today that Immigration Canada may now proceed with its attempt to send Steve Kubby, cancer patient and medical marijuana refugee, to die in an American jail. Immigration Canada is expected to issue a new removal date, presumably sometime next week. For more info call: Michele Kubby (250)578-8422 Please phone or fax the Ministers of Immigration, Health, Justice and Public Safety: [In transition due to election - how convenient.] |
| Jan 19, 2006 |
'Legal' Dope Faces Major Medical Hurdle Medicinal marijuana may be legal in Canada, but try finding a doctor who will sign the paper to get it, says a B.C. woman who has been looking for more than a year. [The public needs to know about the dysfunctional state of the medical cannabis program] |
| Jan 19, 2006 |
Hemp Supporter Gets Candidates Talking TRURO -- Running as a somewhat controversial independent in this federal election, Rick Simpson usually doesn't have party platforms and policies to tout during political debates. That changed Tuesday when Mr. Simpson, who makes a marijuana-based product he calls hemp oil ( not hemp seed oil ), got to discuss alternative medicines during a live radio debate with other candidates in Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley. |
| Jan 17, 2006 |
Marijuana Points Way To Anti-Obesity Drug A marijuana joint might seem an odd starting point in the search for weight-loss solutions. Yet a new compound switching off the same brain circuits that make people hungry when they smoke cannabis looks set to become the world's first blockbuster anti-obesity medicine, with sales tipped by analysts to top $3 billion US a year. |
| Jan 16, 2006 |
PUB LTE: Legalizing Cannabis Use Way To Fix Crime Woes Amid all the talk of ending gun crime, violence and gangs, I have yet to hear anybody offer any real solutions to this problem. Guns, violence, and gangs are often rightly associated with drugs. Gun and drug sales provide nearly 100 per cent of funding for gangs. Gangs need drugs to make money, and they need guns to protect the drugs. |
| Jan 16, 2006 |
So, Just What Were They Smoking? "Where do you stand on the legalization of marijuana?"....Suddenly, the mood in the room turned dark as Conservative candidate Sam Goldstein, seething in his seat, took his turn. Pointing a menacing finger at the crowd, he chastised them for wanting candidates to control gun crime in their city, while wanting to legalize a drug that was causing the gang warfare on their streets. |
| Jan 16, 2006 |
Apocalypse Now! A Conservative Canada? Pot people in Canada face extreme danger if a Conservative Justice Minister and the Conservative Party win on January 23rd The Conservative Party say they will give any Canadians caught selling more than 3 kilograms of marijuana a mandatory 24 months minimum in jail. The Conservatives, who lead the polls in Canada?s general election for next Monday, January 23, have already indicated they want mandatory jail terms for any Canadian growing marijuana. They promised never to decriminalize marijuana. [ Also see: <ul> <li><a href="http://norml.ca/" target="_blank">NORML 2006 Election Survey</a></li> <li><a href="http://cannabiscoalition.ca/html/index.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=30" target="_blank">Canadian Cannabis Coalition Says "NO" to Harper</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.asiantribune.com/show_article.php?id=2962" target="_blank">The Canadian elections and the phony gun-crime epidemic</a></li> <li><a href="http://cannabiscoalition.ca/html/index.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=29" target="_blank">PR: Canadians to vote for an end to cannabis prohibition in upcoming federal election.</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.endprohibition.ca/" target="_blank">eNDProhibition</a></li> <li><a href="http://rabble.ca/politics.shtml?x=45777" target="_blank">Think Twice Coalition</a></li> <li><a href="http://rickmercer.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> Rick Mercer's Blog</a></li> </ul> The swell of opposition to rightwingnuts ruling us is beginning to grow! Voters are shaking the amnesia and remembering Brian Mulroney, Mike Harris and their kind. |
| Jan 13, 2006 |
Marijuana Party Given Fewer Puffs On-Air With no travel budget, Nunavut's candidate for the Marijuana Party planned to reach the ears of voters through the airwaves during the on-air candidates forum, hosted by CBC radio. But last week he was told he could only speak for three minutes during the introduction, and three minutes at closing, if time permits. Unlike candidates for the other parties, he won't be allowed to field questions. {Despite the censorship, Ed received 7.9% of the vote] |
| Jan 12, 2006 |
Family Flees Grow-Rip But Homeowner Gets Charged For The owner of a house on Bridgeport Road received the fright of a lifetime on Friday during a home invasion....The 30-year-old is also the mother of the two toddlers, a boy and a girl ages two and three, who were placed in the care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development after what police believe was an attempted grow-rip....In this case, with Wu being the owner, RCMP investigators may have an opportunity to use proceeds of crime legislation in an attempt to have the home, assessed last year at $472,000, forfeited. ...A new city bylaw empowers the city to bill homeowners the cost of responding to and cleaning up marijuana grow ops. [Persecute, prosecute, scatter the family.. how much more damage can they impose?] |
| Jan 12, 2006 |
Is The Marijuana Party Going Up In Smoke This year the party is running only 23 candidates, after having run at least 70 in the previous two elections. Its founding leader, Marc-Boris St-Maurice, quit the party last year to join the Liberal party. Now, the B.C. Marijuana Party has thrown its support behind the federal NDP party. |
| Jan 12, 2006 |
High Times For Hemp Growers The Ste. Agathe-based HOCI moved from processing 800,000 pounds of hemp seed in 2004 to 2.5 million pounds in 2005. Growers' acres have risen from 1,200 acres in 2004 to nearly 10,000 acres expected for 2006. With production averaging around 700 pounds per acre for seed, the crop provides growers with a relatively good return compared to other crops they can grow -- even more if they grow it organically. And those returns will get even better if the fibre processing venture gets off the ground. There's even some work taking place in other parts of the world on using hemp oil for biodiesel production. |
| Jan 12, 2006 |
Marijuana Activists Pay Krieger's Travel Expenses Grant Krieger, the Alberta medical marijuana activist whose appeal from a 2003 drug-trafficking conviction is to be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada today, will be able to attend the hearing now that a group of pot activists has paid his travel expenses. |