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| Sep 30, 2006 |
Chong Pontificates On Politics, Pot And Prison In New n his new book "The I Chong: Meditations From the Joint" ( Simon and Schuster ), Chong insists the feds came after him, at the behest of the Bush administration, because he'd frequently spoken out against the war on terror and the erosion of civil liberties after 9-11. |
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| Sep 29, 2006 |
Nurses Lash Out At Spending Cuts Ontario nurses are lashing out at recently announced spending cuts by the federal Conservative government..... They also take aim at money cut from the medical marijuana, Health Canada policy research and court challenges programs. |
| Sep 29, 2006 |
Elementary School Suspends Boy For Pot The principal at Mildred Hall school hopes a Grade 7 student caught with marijuana last week can chalk it up as a learning experience. |
| Sep 28, 2006 |
Feds' Wily Weed Cash Ruse Bouzanis confirms that only $2 million was ever doled out of the original $7.5 million earmarked for reefer research, while about $5.5 million remains to be spent. Vancouver NDP MP Libby Davies has requested that Auditor General Sheila Fraser look into the accounting of all money spent on the program. |
| Sep 28, 2006 |
Coke Cop Can't Return Repeated drug possession and use -- to say nothing of the thefts -- has landed many others behind bars. And yet Hall thinks he should be put back into a position to enforce the laws he so flagrantly disregarded. Police Supt. Ralph Erfle has tossed cold water on the idea of Hall winning back his job, telling the hearing that the constable is "one of the last officers" the Ottawa force would want as its public face. |
| Sep 28, 2006 |
Column: RCMP Must Be Independent Of Politics n the end, what saved the Mounties was dope. Canada was just getting into the swing of the drug prohibition business, and Parliament ultimately decided that a national presence was necessary to effectively enforce the Opium and Drug Act. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was born, and today employs 60,000 men and women. That crucial role of drugs in the history of the RCMP is important when trying to make sense of some of the more intriguing actions on the part of its high-level decision-makers over the past couple of years. |
| Sep 28, 2006 |
Straight Dope From Pot Prof U of T philosophy professor Doug Hutchinson, who won the right this week to smoke pot during work hours for an undisclosed medical condition, goes public about his travails in an open letter released September 22 to U of T authorities, fellow philosophy professors and graduate students. |
| Sep 27, 2006 |
Golfing Grandpa Gets Teed Off At US Border The 48-year-old construction worker figures he's entered the U.S. by car or plane at least 60 times since the 1970s...All that for a mothballed misdemeanor that was taken care of at the time with a $250 fine...Kimberley swears he's had enough with the U.S.: "Europe is looking really good right now." |
| Sep 27, 2006 |
Green And Legal Feds Won't Tell Grow-Op Busters Who's Got A Licence It's a budding problem cops wish they could weed out. Officers with the Edmonton Police Service-RCMP Green Team are occasionally raiding marijuana grow-ops that turn out to be operated by growers licensed by the federal government to cultivate pot for medicinal reasons. [So many "problems" would not exist if prohibition did not exist. Then we could see what real problems may be associated with cannabis. |
| Sep 27, 2006 |
Support Called In For Large Grow-Op A recent outdoor grow-op involving 7,500 marijuana plants that were close to being ready to harvest was one such an example of the benefits of being part of the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachments. "This recent case is a good example of the real benefits of integrated policing ( with the UFVRD )," says Sergeant Mike McCarthy with the Agassiz RCMP. |
| Sep 26, 2006 |
Pot Crusader Found Guilty Of Trafficking Marijuana Grant Krieger, a well-known pot crusader, has again been found guilty of trafficking in marijuana after he sent packages to people in Manitoba for medicinal uses on two separate occasions. Provincial court Judge William Pepler found Krieger guilty Monday of two counts of trafficking in marijuana on Dec. 3, 2003 and Jan. 8, 2004. |
| Sep 26, 2006 |
Editorial: Potheads May Not Have Thought This One t seems that every time we carry any kind of drug awareness article in the paper we receive a flood of letters to the editor from people keen to tell us that drugs aren't so bad at all. There seems to be a group of people who spend their lives combing the Internet looking for such stories as an opportunity to argue their case that marijuana should be legalized. |
| Sep 23, 2006 |
Four Arrested As Police Search Schools For Drugs Four youths were arrested this week after police scoured three city high schools looking for drugs. No names were released, and police -- who seized small amounts of marijuana and drug paraphernalia -- didn't say whether those arrested were students....The searches were part of regular rotating school blitzes done by police, she said. |
| Sep 23, 2006 |
Reggae Musician's Charter Rights Breached Police Had No Lawful Basis For Stopping Car Court Of Appeal Restores Trial Ruling ...The judge found there was no lawful basis for stopping Hanson and that alone was reason enough for finding that his Charter rights had been breached, the panel said. |
| Sep 23, 2006 |
Pot Activist Settles VANCOUVER -- An American pot activist who launched an intense legal fight against extradition to the U.S., has quietly settled her legal and immigration issues. After negotiating a plea agreement of simple possession of marijuana with U.S. prosecutors, Renee Boje dropped her extradition appeal in B.C. and returned to California from B.C. last month. |
| Sep 21, 2006 |
Million-Dollar Company All Started With Tortilla Chips Ruth's Hemp Foods Inc. Distributes In Canada, U.S. It might be that Annex resident Ruth Shamai's hemp food company generates about $1 million in revenue each year because it's obvious she enjoys what she creates. |
| Sep 16, 2006 |
Weeding Out What's Bad For The Planet Name: Dylan Perceval-Maxwell, owner of Je L'ai, 159 Duluth Ave. E., 514-284-5393. How would you describe your store? We sell hemp products and ecologically sound cannabis-related items. |
| Sep 16, 2006 |
Guard Gets Five Years In Prison EDMONTON - A former guard at the Edmonton Remand Centre has been sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling drugs inside the jail for inmates.He said he also got an "adrenalin rush" from his participation. And he was using cocaine at the time of the offences. |
| Sep 16, 2006 |
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Cafe Owner Gets 15 Months In Jail For Selling Pot The owner of the now defunct Da Kine Cafe on Commercial Drive has been sentenced to 15 months in jail for openly selling marijuana to customers. At the height of the coffee shop's success in the summer of 2004, police say it attracted thousands of customers to its doors, gaining international attention. |
| Sep 15, 2006 |
Pot Activist Sells Seeds To Advance Cause Dana Larsen Flouts Law With New Vancouver Store to Promote Legalization Vancouver pot activist Dana Larsen was on the phone at his new Vancouver Seed Bank storefront Thursday, telling a caller from Wisconsin that he has no plans to sell pot seeds to Americans through the mail. Larsen told the potential client that he doesn't want to make the mistake made by his long-time friend and colleague Marc Emery who sold marijuana seeds to U.S. addresses. |