Top Stories (2007) -
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| Jul 6, 2007 |
Reimer Loses Court Battle Marijuana Activist Rick Reimer Has Lost His Day In Court. In a written decision released Thursday, Ottawa Justice C. McKinnon threw out the $3 million civil suit launched by the former Pembroke lawyer, who possesses a medical exemption to smoke, grow and cultivate marijuana to treat his Multiple Sclerosis. |
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| Jul 6, 2007 |
Pot Documentary Has Local Filmmaker On A Roll A Kelowna man's documentary film about the marijuana industry is making waves on the film festival circuit. The Union: the business of getting high, won outstanding feature documentary honours at the Winnipeg International Film Festival last month. Next month, it is slated to appear at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. |
| Jul 6, 2007 |
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Growing Season: Are Farmers Really Being Intimidated? In Brome-Missisquoi and in Coaticook, farmers can sign a "social contract" with the Surete du Quebec . The contract gives police permission to venture onto the land at any time in search of outlaw plantations. Otherwise police can't check a property without probable cause, or permission from the landowner. ...However, cases of intimidation may not be as common as news coverage would make it seem. Media reports of farmers being threatened by growers are common, but often lack people willing to come forward to back up the allegations. Just how often it actually happens is unclear. "I've had no cases of intimidation reported," Potvin said. |
| Jul 6, 2007 |
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Police Officer Arrested During Series Of Raids Toronto police have accused one of their own officers of helping an Eastern European organized crime group charged with importing and exporting marijuana and cocaine between Canada and the United States. |
| Jul 5, 2007 |
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Home-Grow Registry Wanted Real estate agents and local police are working together to ensure potential homeowners don't get duped into buying a home once used in an illegal drug operation. |
| Jul 4, 2007 |
Dubai Prisoner Has Island Ties Canadian anti-drug advocate Bert Tatham is currently appealing a four-year jail sentence after being found guilty of possession for trace amounts of hashish and two dried poppy flowers in Dubai. |
| Jul 2, 2007 |
Landlord Jailed For Renting Grow-Op House To Family A Niagara Falls landlord will spend the next 60 days behind bars for knowingly renting a toxic home to an unsuspecting family of five. [How many landlords across Canada would be in jail for renting moldy units (whether used for gardens or not) if they were all held accountable? This case appears to be a mix of racism and prejudice] |
| Jul 1, 2007 |
High Time IN handing a grow operator a conditional sentence last month, North Vancouver provincial judge Doug Moss expressed frustration the court could not do more to curb his activities. We share Moss's frustration, but we believe it is misdirected. ...Drugs - marijuana included - should be legalized, regulated, and restricted internationally, much the way cigarettes are. Drugs cannot be vanquished, but the criminals who pedal them can. The dangers of legalized drugs are manifold, but they are nothing compared to the dangers of the status quo. |
| Jun 30, 2007 |
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Student To Keep Good Grades Wawota's Kieran King may be able to hang onto his honour role status, despite being suspended from Wawota Parkland School for violating a lockdown. |
| Jun 29, 2007 |
We Need To Start Winning The Pot Propaganda In the battle against harmful drugs, society has at least two main defences: the courts and the court of public opinion. B.C.'s courts, however, appear powerless. |
| Jun 29, 2007 |
Revisit Pot Law They called prohibition, the banning of the production, distribution and sale of alcohol early in the last century 'The Noble Experiment.' It was supposed to rid society of drunkenness, poverty, crime and various other societal ills. By any measure, it was a catastrophic failure. |
| Jun 28, 2007 |
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'Awesome' Teacher On Pot Charge An "awesome" counsellor and teacher at Lillooet Secondary is to appear in court next month, charged with trafficking marijuana. |
| Jun 28, 2007 |
What Are They Smoking Over At The Globe? After doing independent research on marijuana 15-year-old Saskatchewan Grade 10 student Kieran King told his friends that, in his opinion, marijuana was less harmful than either alcohol or tobacco....When King protested, he was suspended from school for three days. ...This week the Globe and Mail's Margaret Wente took a similar tack while applauding the school's position. |
| Jun 28, 2007 |
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Ex-Cop Faces Grow-Op Charge A retired Winnipeg police officer who recently came under scrutiny for his role in the wrongful conviction of James Driskell has been charged with running a marijuana grow operation in his home. Bill VanderGraaf, 56, was arrested in April after police received a tip that he was allegedly manufacturing drugs in the basement of his East Kildonan home. |
| Jun 28, 2007 |
Punting Pot Inmates Use Footballs And Baseballs To Smuggle In Drugs Guards at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre foiled a bizarre attempt to smuggle drugs in a football. On Saturday night, a prisoner doing cleanup duty triggered an alarm when he got too close to a fence line at the jail, sending guards scurrying to the scene, where they grabbed the inmate and discovered a football filled with tobacco, said Solicitor General spokesman Christine Skjerven. |
| Jun 28, 2007 |
Judge Orders Pot Crusader Krieger To Be Released On Bail Medicinal marijuana crusader Grant Krieger was expected to be released from jail Wednesday night, after his lawyer succeeded in getting him bail until an appeal of his most recent conviction is heard. Justice Peter Martin ordered the controversial Krieger to be released on bail after a hearing at the Alberta Court of Appeal on Wednesday, pending his appeal. |
| Jun 27, 2007 |
Marijuana Grower Deported Authorities have deported a man convicted for his role in a network of more than a dozen Calgary-area marijuana grow ops. Canada Border Services Agency officers handed over Lai Guan Tan, 34, to foreign officials last week. |
| Jun 27, 2007 |
Gatineau Officer To Remain Jailed Until Trial A Gatineau police officer charged with possession of narcotics will be detained until his trial. At the end of a day-long bail hearing, Justice Jules Barriere ruled that Peter Vranas, 41, should not be released, to "maintain the confidence of the public in the administration of justice." |
| Jun 26, 2007 |
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Local Energy-Drink Maker Pitches To Pot-Heads Clarus Canadian Springs is carrying Bong Water Energized Sports Drinks, a line of beverages where references to marijuana and the drug subculture abound. Bong Water is the brainchild of Growth Capital Group. The drinks are made with Clarus's own spring water. Bong Water comes in four versions -- the Original Bong Water 420 Chronic Tonic, Purple Haze, Green Dreams and Rasta Cherry. The drinks are available at stores in Canada and the U.S. |
| Jun 26, 2007 |
Not The Groovy '60s Today's harder, meaner cannabis is a scourge in many of Canada's poorer neighbourhoods. It is a spreading affliction on native reserves and, in the cities, is intimately linked with the deadly duo of guns and gangs. It has an especially devastating effect among certain ethnic minorities. |