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| May 2, 2007 |
Pot Champ Among UVIC Honourees Over the years, Philippe Lucas has proven himself an effective advocate for reforming Canada's drug laws. It turns out he's also a pretty good student. Lucas was one of three University of Victoria students who received an award for $2,500 last month for "remarkable volunteer contributions to the university and/or Greater Victoria community while maintaining at least a B average." A master's student in the study for policy and practice, Lucas is vice-chair of the City of Victoria's downtown advisory committee, he sits on the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, and works closely with the Vancouver Island Compassion Society as well as the committee to end homelessness in Victoria. |
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| May 1, 2007 |
City Agrees To Put Leash On Acts Like Snoop Dog Lethbridge Alberta - Snoop Dogg may have to sit up and beg if he ever wants to perform in Lethbridge again. And the city will only throw him a bone if he promises to behave. The same goes for any rock, rap or hip hop group booked to perform at the Enmax Centre. |
| Apr 28, 2007 |
Is This The Answer? Legalizing Street Drugs: Bold Move Could Starve Gangs, Respected Author Argues ...Commissioned by the federal government to write the 2002 Canadian Police Survey on Youth Gangs, Chettleburgh gave a sweeping look at street gangsterism which he'll be updating later this year. |
| Apr 28, 2007 |
Old Marijuana Grow Ops Can Be Great Deals For Home Getting a deal on a property once used to cultivate marijuana in the basement isn't a problem as long as you know the house is safe, say purchasers of former Whitehorse grow-ops. |
| Apr 28, 2007 |
Grow-Op Couple Lose Appeal, Home Seized A couple who appealed the seizure of their Abbotsford home after they used it for a marijuana grow operation have lost their case. The B.C. Court of Appeal decision this week concluded the original sentencing judge didn't err in ordering the forfeiture of the couple's property, and their appeal was dismissed. |
| Apr 27, 2007 |
4/20 Day A Real Bust For Students National Smoke Up Day was a bust for almost three dozen Burlington high school students. Halton police officers made 36 arrests April 20 for drug-related offences, after police and the public school board co-ordinated an investigation at two randomly chosen Burlington high schools, Lester B. Pearson and M.M. Robinson. [Is this why we need more cops... because they are so busy busting kids they have no time to solve murders, robberies and other real crimes?] |
| Apr 26, 2007 |
Larsen Named Federal NDP Candidate for Local Ridin Former Marijuana Party candidate Dana Larsen last week was declared the candidate for the federal New Democratic Party ( NDP ) in the riding that includes Whistler. ...The vast majority of people in British Columbia are in support of changing our marijuana laws, and I think that goes for people in all classes and all stratas of society," he said. "I think if you're the kind of person that thinks people who smoke marijuana should go to jail, then you probably weren't going to vote NDP anyway." |
| Apr 26, 2007 |
Rita MacNeil Brings The Old And New To Th'yarc At a point in her career when there was nothing left for her to do as a musician, Rita MacNeil did the only logical thing someone in her position could -- she harvested weed with the Trailer Park Boys. MacNeil laughs when asked about the now legendary episode of the popular TV show where the boys hijack her tour bus and force MacNeil and her band to help them pick their crop. In the show, MacNeil happily picks five-foot tall marijuana plants while singing her trademark, Working Man. |
| Apr 26, 2007 |
LTE: Was It Necessary To Run Marijuana Article? Dear Editor - Re: 'Christmas for stoners' ( Guelph Mercury, April 21 ). I was disappointed with Saturday's stoners article. As a mother I am trying very hard to teach my children not to do drugs. I have a 10-year-old who delivers your paper and she very often reads the front-page article while she is delivering. I am sure a lot more of our youth believe that being a stoner is fun, that such an event is like Christmas, it brings all your friends together, the police won't bother you if there are lots of people doing it. Last time I checked it was still illegal to smoke marijuana. Why were the police not there, and why did campus security not do anything? Was it really necessary for your paper to run this article? If it was necessary could you not have put the article inside the paper to protect your youngest delivery carriers who very often just look at the front page? C.J. Moore Guelph |
| Apr 25, 2007 |
Celebration Up In Smoke Local pot activist Ted Smith launched the 4/20 celebration last Friday by urging the crowd to "smoke 'em if you got 'em." And smoke 'em they did. More than 700 people huddled in circles at the 10th annual gathering at Victoria city hall for the 4/20 event, symbolically held on April 20. |
| Apr 25, 2007 |
A Few Trips Decades Ago Put An End To This One Mr. Feldmar took his last hit of acid in 1974. Thirty-two years, however, turned out to be but an instant in the long, unrelenting U.S. war on drugs. Last summer, in an incident that has just come to light, Mr. Feldmar, now 66, was banned from entering the United States because of his long-ago use of LSD. Because Mr. Feldmar had never been charged with possession of the once-popular illegal drug, privacy advocates are even more alarmed by the way U.S. border guards at the busy Peace Arch crossing near Vancouver found out about it. The guards simply looked up Mr. Feldmar on the Internet and discovered his own article about using LSD, written for the scholarly, peer-reviewed journal Janus Head. ... Given the United States' "almost fanatical position on drugs," Mr. Oscapella said, even a teenager who simply writes in a blog about smoking marijuana is now vulnerable to online scrutiny by U.S. border guards. |
| Apr 20, 2007 |
Cannabis Awareness Forum Treating Yourself and the Toronto Compassion Centre Invite you to the Cannabis Awareness Forum Location: Delta Chelsea Hotel Mountbatten Salon A 33 Gerrard St. West Toronto, Ontario Date: April 20, 2007 Time: 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. This is an open invitation to take part in the Cannabis Awareness Forum. Presentations and open-floor discussions will be taking place. [ <a href="http://www.torontocompassioncentre.org/forum.htm" target="_blank">[ Read More ]</a> ] |
| Apr 20, 2007 |
More Than Just Stoners at Pot Events If you happen to bump into Marco Renda today, make sure to not wish him a "Hippy New Year." The former Dundalk-area medical marijuana activist, who still has charges pending in Guelph courts for allegedly exporting pot to the U.S. and Great Britain, is organizing a Cannabis Awareness Forum at a rather hoity-toity downtown Toronto hotel. |
| Apr 19, 2007 |
Pro Pot Activists Bring Cause To Home Of Justice Marijuana activists have one more reason to like Niagara Falls, now that it's the home of Canada's justice minister, says Matt Mernagh, the organizer of Saturday's annual pro-pot protest. Saturday will be the fourth annual protest Niagara Falls has seen where scores of protesters take to the streets, demanding the legalization of marijuana. |
| Apr 17, 2007 |
LTE: Pot Busts And Police Propaganda Ladysmith RCMP Cpl. Rob Graves stated the net street value of 60 plants seized in the arrest was approximately $70,000. Such a claim leads me to two obvious conclusions. 1 ) Corporal Graves and his "Green Team" task force from the Nanaimo RCMP have been smoking the proceeds of [drug busts] to derive such a net worth from 60 plants, as they seem to believe one plant has a street value of more than $1,000 dollars. 2 ) The RCMP [intentionally] exaggerate the value of seized marijuana crops by more than 90 per cent when it is seized as undried plants and have been doing so for years. As the article [The Chronicle] published provided a picture, it was handy so the public can see from the wide angle of the lens shot what the police cut and weighed that day to come up with the ludicrous $70,000 value. |
| Apr 16, 2007 |
<h3>Health Canada Marks Up Medical Marijuana 1,500%</h3> <h3>[...Records obtained under the Access to Information Act show that Health Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk medical marijuana produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc. The company has a $10.3-million contract with Health Canada, which expires at the end of September, to grow standardized medical marijuana in an abandoned mine shaft in Flin Flon. Health Canada, in turn, sells the marijuana to a small group of authorized users for $150 -- plus GST -- for each 30-gram bag of ground-up flowering tops, with a strength of up to 14 per cent THC, the main active ingredient. That works out to $5,000 for each kilogram, or a markup of more than 1,500 per cent...]</h3> |
| Apr 16, 2007 |
Medicinal Pot Advocate Pleads For Legalization An emotional Pete Young -- one of three people charged after a drug bust at a so-called medicinal marijuana centre in London -- yesterday called for support as he prepares for his court date on Friday. |
| Apr 14, 2007 |
Firefighter Busted For Grow-Op Ironically, the Vancouver fire department assigns two of its fire prevention officers to the Vancouver police department's Grow Busters Team. The fire prevention officers accompany police officers when they are taking down marijuana grow-ops. |
| Apr 14, 2007 |
Canadian, American Cops Say It's Time To End Drug Prohibition, Save Live But some former law enforcement officials in Canada and the United States who have spent years fighting the ongoing war on drugs say it's a losing battle....They include Senator Larry Campbell, a former RCMP drug squad officer and Vancouver mayor who ran on a platform of reducing harm from drug use. ...Const. John Gayder of the Niagara Parks Police in Niagara Falls, Ont., is a founding member of LEAP. He says in the film that he gives drug calls a low priority because arresting such people isn't helping them. ... Jerry Paradis, who retired as a B.C. provincial court judge four years ago, is also a LEAP member and after 35 years on the bench, he echoes Gayder's sentiments . |
| Apr 12, 2007 |
Ten Court Rulings That Cemented Rights And Freedoms A jury of the country's foremost constitutional experts is in -- and its verdict for the most influential Charter ruling of the past 25 years is a 1986 case, Regina v. Oakes, which provided a crucial blueprint for all future Charter interpretation. |