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| Jun 25, 2007 |
Drug Abuse, Trafficking Awareness Day, June 26 Nearly 200 million people are using drugs worldwide specifically marijuana, opiates and crystal meth. Cannabis remains the highest used drug globally, with an estimated 16 million users. [So it will only take eliminating 200 million users, and all the banned plants and ingredients they consume to meet the 2008 deadline they imposed for a drug free world] |
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| Jun 23, 2007 |
Evidence Of 'Reefer Madness' Abounds 'THE one great principle of the... law," wrote Charles Dickens in Bleak House, "is to make business for itself." That's a thought worth worrying if you are trying, as I am, to understand federal government's position on the medical and recreational use of marijuana. |
| Jun 22, 2007 |
QU: Gatineau Officer Arrested On Cocaine Charge A Gatineau police officer has been charged with drug-related offences after more than two kilograms of cocaine was found in the car he was in late Wednesday. Peter Vranas, 41, remained calm as he was remanded yesterday. The 20-year veteran of the force will remain behind bars until his bail hearing, which is scheduled for Tuesday at the Gatineau courthouse. |
| Jun 22, 2007 |
AB:
Reefer Madness Comes Full Circle Last Monday, Calgary Provincial Court Judge William Pepler ordered Grant Krieger incarcerated immediately, with no access to the pot the MS sufferer says has made his life liveable. Reefer madness has come full circle. Free Grant Krieger protest Saturday June 23 / 2007 12:00 Noon Calgary Remand Centre 12200 85 Street NW Calgary, Alberta Our current daily protests at the Calgary Remand Centre will be moved in front of the Alberta Provincial Court House 323-6 Ave., S.E. starting on Monday June 25 / 07. 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM daily until Grant is released! We are expecting a large number of people on June 23 / 07 Saturday 12:00 Noon Free Grant Krieger Protest in front of the Calgary Remand Centre 122 Ave and 85th Street NW. See you all on Saturday! See <a href="http://Calgary420.ca/rallies/" target="_blank">http://Calgary420.ca/rallies/</a> for updates! |
| Jun 21, 2007 |
SN:
SN: Legal Action Considered Against Suspension A video recording of a free-speech protest at a Saskatchewan high school shows a school superintendent saying publicly that 15-year-old Kieran King had been accused of selling drugs at his school, even though his mother says he had never been investigated or charged, or even spoken to by the school principal. Kieran's mother, Jo Anne Euler, says the drug-selling accusation is false, but hasn't yet decided whether to pursue legal action. |
| Jun 21, 2007 |
AB:
AB: Pot Advocate Sick In Jail - Family The condition of notorious medicinal marijuana crusader Grant Krieger - -- incarcerated at the Calgary Remand Centre since Monday -- is "rapidly deteriorating," according to his friends and family. |
| Jun 19, 2007 |
Pot Used To 'Control' Girl's Hyperactivity Judge Calls It 'Extreme' Abuse, Sentences Mother To Nine Months Of House Arrest A Sarnia woman who used marijuana to control her eight-year-old daughter's hyperactivity was placed under house arrest for nine months Monday. The 34-year-old mother pleaded guilty in Sarnia court to marijuana trafficking because she gave the marijuana to her child. |
| Jun 19, 2007 |
AB:
Pot Crusader Jailed, Refused Marijuana Longtime pot crusader Grant Krieger was jailed Monday for four months on a drug trafficking charge, and he wasn't allowed to take his medicinal marijuana behind bars. Despite a constitutional exemption that allows Krieger to use cannabis to alleviate his multiple sclerosis pain, the judge ruled against the legal right applying in jail, said his lawyer, John Hooker. |
| Jun 17, 2007 |
Patients Complain Health Canada Wants To Keep Weed Weak Health Canada has been contacting doctors who prescribe medical marijuana for their government-approved patients, advising them to keep the dosages low. Some users say that not only violates doctor-patient confidentiality, it's also wrong for bureaucrats to make judgments about the medical needs of people they've never seen. |
| Jun 16, 2007 |
PUB LTE: Protect Children By Ending Unproductive War On The article, Drug house parents face charges ( SP, June 5 ), illustrates perfectly what a complete disaster our drug policy has been for families. In response to the dangers posed by "toxic marijuana grow operations," Alberta passed legislation that allows removing children from dangerous situations posed by drugs. The Drug Endangered Children Act is a Band-Aid. If we are truly sincere in our desire to protect children from the dangers of a house full of plants, legalizing marijuana would be the best way to achieve that goal. |
| Jun 16, 2007 |
Schools Decision To Muzzle Student Sets Bad Example A form of reefer madness has hit the tiny town of Wawota, where the principal of the local Parkland School recently suspended a 15-year-old student who shared with friends his view that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco....An education institution whose objective should be to foster independent thinking and research to mold bright young minds shouldn't be trying to herd kids' behind some line of intellectual conformity. |
| Jun 15, 2007 |
The Great and Costly Drug-War Fraud It is my privilege today to break major news: In less than a year, the trade in illicit drugs will be all but wiped out.Cocaine. Methamphetamine. Marijuana. All will vanish. And heroin, too. ...In 1998, the UN hosted a General Assembly special session under the official slogan: "A Drug-Free World: We Can Do It." .... The U.S. was the main author of the first draft, and it was ambitious, saying the "eradication" of the illicit-drug trade would be complete by 2008. |
| Jun 14, 2007 |
Raids Terrify Children Here's a different perspective on yesterday's police raids. It comes from Andrene, who is 10 years old and experienced the first minutes at the end of police guns after officers burst into her bedroom just before dawn. She was there with her mother, Sharon Mitchell, 32, and baby sister, Alexandra, 2. Down the hall in another bedroom were her cousin, Joanna, 9, and Joanna's mother, Charmaine Osbourne, 30. "This morning, the police officers, they came and they were kicking down the doors," said Andrene in a solemn voice. "And they came in with their guns and they were pointing at my sister and me. "My sister got scared and she was crying." |
| Jun 14, 2007 |
SN:
Rally Held in Support of Free Speech Rights The residents of Wawota, population 500, were surprised to see protesters waving signs and shouting into a megaphone Tuesday.... Student Kieran King is the focus of the activity in Wawota. He was suspended from school for three days after disobeying the school's lockdown order during a walkout protest. |
| Jun 13, 2007 |
Children Who Call Grow Ops Home At Risk ...But there is another element about illegal drug growing operations which causes concern. These operations do not run by themselves. There are people behind at each of those plants. Some may be taking the risk entirely on their own; however, sometimes there are innocent victims - children living in these homes. Children living in grow-ops can be exposed to chemicals, electrical fires and mould. It is clearly not a healthy environment. The Alberta government has taken the lead and recently laid the first charges against parents whose children were allegedly found living in homes with marijuana grow operations. Called the Drug Endangered Children Act, it allows police to immediately remove children from homes where drugs are sold or produced. A current case involves charges against the parents of a four-year-old and an 18-month-old. |
| Jun 13, 2007 |
SN: Student Suspended For Opinion On Pot REGINA ( SNN ) -- Kieran King says he has never smoked pot, but his views on marijuana have led to his suspension from Wawota Parkland School. King said he was threatened with police action by principal Susan Wilson after telling friends at the school that marijuana was less harmful than alcohol. "In my opinion, cannabis is safer than they say, it is not worse than alcohol or tobacco," said King, a 15-year-old Grade 10 student. Wilson accused King of using and selling marijuana at school, according to a media release issued by the Saskatchewan Marijuana Party. King has offered to submit to a voluntary drug test to prove otherwise. "I've never smoked marijuana. I've never even seen it," said King, an honours student. [Incredible courage by a young person who chose not to conform. ] |
| Jun 13, 2007 |
Put the Gangs Out of Business: Legalize D Childhood and adolescence should rightfully be a time of love, learning and life. But for thousands of young Canadians, their journey to adulthood is marred forever by street-gang involvement, which almost always means an active role in the massive business of illicit street drugs, too. ...Many allocate blame to street gangsters for this sorry state of affairs -- the idea being that if it weren't for these aggressive and money-hungry "pushers," we wouldn't have such a problem. However, this reasoning is incomplete: It fails to consider the demand generated by millions of Canadians of all ages who, at least once this year, will act on their desire and make a back-alley purchase of an illicit drug...<strong>Finally, we need to embark upon drug legalization, which will starve gangs of their principal oxygen supply and serve to upset the attractive risk-reward proposition that every new gangster now faces. </strong> |
| Jun 9, 2007 |
ON:
Students Face Drug Charges Nine teenagers are facing drug-related charges after a newly formed police team swooped in on a Guelph high school yesterday morning. |
| Jun 9, 2007 |
BC:
The House That Hemp Built Scarcity Of Straw Bales Leads Saltspring Couple To Use Tough Cannabis Fibres To Fill Their Walls... "We started calling family and friends in the Kootenays," says Drew, an inventor, "looking everywhere and anywhere for straw." They never found it, but they did find a rancher with 2,000 hemp bales - -- and snapped them up. |
| Jun 8, 2007 |
Unpaid Pot Bills a Chronic Problem Any other terminally ill patient in Canada would have all his prescriptions covered by the Canadian health care system. Jason Wilcox owes so much money for his medication, Health Canada has cut off his supply and threatened to send a collection agency after him. |