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| Apr 12, 2007 |
Review: Why The War On Drugs Isn't Working <a href="http://www.drugwarodyssey.com/home.php" target="_blank">Damage Done: the Drug War Odyssey</a> Times and dates: Victoria: Saturday April 14th,12-4pm at the Roxy Theatre (2657 Quadra Street) Vancouver: Sunday April 15th,12-4pm at the VanCity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street) <hr /> Damage Done Is The Smartest Documentary Yet On A Divisive Subject, With A Clear Message That Change Is Needed In all the documentaries about the stupidities of the war against drugs, the smartest documentary yet may well be Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey. What sets Damage Done apart is the way it approaches the issue. Connie Littlefield's documentary, for example, doesn't interview the usual suspects. It doesn't include all those you'd expect to be in favour of drugs such as Marc Emery talking about being targeted by the U.S. federal government for selling marijuana seeds through the mail to U.S. customers, members of the B.C. Compassion Club pointing out the medicinal benefits of cannabis, or protesters snubbing authority by smoking up at the annual Smoke-In. |
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| Apr 12, 2007 |
How Much Is Too Much? The cost of policing in North Bay is continually rising. We learned recently 13 members of the North Bay Police Service earned more than $100,000 in 2006. A new contract and overtime costs are driving the budget higher and municipal taxpayers are reeling with tax hikes almost triple the rate of inflation. At the same time, the police board tells the public crime is declining in the city. |
| Apr 11, 2007 |
Judge Finds 'Flagrant Breaches' Of Men's Rights Crown prosecutors will need time to decide how to proceed after territorial court judge Karen Ruddy ruled there were a number of Charter violations in the arrests and search warrants used in 2005 against eight men over a number of marijuana grow operations around the city. |
| Apr 11, 2007 |
Police Find Marijuana Nursery For Grow-Ops A police search of an underground bunker hidden away on a rural property in the Fraser Canyon revealed a marijuana grow-operation suspected of being a nursery for other growers who buy young plants. RCMP officers from Hope and Agassiz detachments arrested two men and a woman on suspicion of producing and possession for the purpose of trafficking 3,051 marijuana plants. |
| Apr 11, 2007 |
PUB LTE: Scare Tactics Adds Up To Misguided Science Re: Mental illness another reason to ban marijuana, Feedback, the Observer, April 8. Once again Chris Kempling is venturing into unknown waters with his assumptive, and quite frankly ignorant assertion that, "Young people need to realize today's pot can make you crazy -- permanently." Kempling's reference to Britain's The Independent and their groveling apologetics and retractions for once advocating the legalization of cannabis is nothing but another case of misleading, false, and above all else, bad science. |
| Apr 11, 2007 |
Mary Jane Is Not Just Peter Parker's Best Friend I'm not suggesting that everyone become potheads. And let me be clear, I am of the firm belief that if we all took better care of our bodies and minds via good food, exercise and meditation, the need for a supplemental boost on any level would not be as necessary. But I am not going to lie to you. I do enjoy a nice glass of wine or piece of dark chocolate now and then. So who am I to judge? |
| Apr 5, 2007 |
Most Teenagers Don't Use Pot In health class every year we learn about drugs and their effects on the human body. We learn the drug groups and some of the effects. What we don't learn is what this does to the brain and the rest of our body. The thing that scares me about health class is that nobody listens and I know that over half my class is going to try drugs before they turn eighteen. I hope that this article will give them enough information to not try drugs. |
| Apr 5, 2007 |
Thinking Outside The Hot Box Given the inconsistencies in Canada's drug laws, it's difficult to discern when and where we should take an active stance for or against illegal drug use. Existing laws cloud our perceptions of drugs and how some may be different from others. Ritalin and alcohol, while legal, have potentially deadly side-effects on the heart and liver, respectively. On the other hand, marijuana has fewer detrimental effects, especially if it isn't smoked. The seemingly baseless standards on which these laws are created complicate the ethics of punishment. While some cases are clear-cut -- certainly those supplying cocaine should be policed -- others aren't so easy. |
| Apr 5, 2007 |
Crime Stoppers Needs Funding Or It's Finished Cornwall Ont - If the city police can't find close to $12,000 a year for Crime Stoppers, the local agency may be forced to fold.... Johann said the group has relied heavily upon the sale of pull-tab tickets, commonly known as Nevadas, to fund their operations. [A program that relys on gambling revenue to reward snitches - what a stupid society we live in] |
| Apr 5, 2007 |
Woman Took Pills Before Testifying Melanie Stephen was granted a rare bit of leeway in court Wednesday that allows her to review the transcript of her earlier testimony while still under oath. Ms. Stephen, the estranged wife of Michael Patriquen, founder of the Nova Scotia Marijuana Party, admitted in court that she took sleeping pills before testifying in her money laundering and possessing proceeds of crime trial, which began in February. |
| Apr 5, 2007 |
Cops Take Kids In Drug Raid A toddler and a newborn were apprehended by police Thursday under new provincial legislation designed to protect children from families involved in the drug trade. The joint EPS/RCMP Green Team took down a marijuana grow operation at 9:15 a.m. in a home near 190 Street and 83 Avenue. Officers seized 210 marijuana plants, worth about $210,000, and arrested three adults. |
| Apr 5, 2007 |
Wait You Mean Weed's Not Legal Yet? t was the subject of international hype a few years ago: the great liberal northern bastion of Canada was planning to decriminalize marijuana, snubbing its nose at its neo-conservative southern neighbour's War on Drugs. But the Liberal government that introduced the proposed decriminalization law let it die, and its Conservative successor has promised not to revive it. |
| Apr 5, 2007 |
This Is Your Vue On Drugs If you notice a bit of a common thread running through this week's edition of Vue, try not to freak out, as it's entirely intentional. You are not high. Well, actually, chances are you might be, which is kind of the point. Based on information both official and anecdotal, it's clear that drugs are, well, everywhere these days. |
| Apr 5, 2007 |
Higher, Faster, Stronger ... And Higher ...Few athletes, officials or spectators would ever argue that competitors trying to gain an edge by using illegal and potentially dangerous steroids or other capability-increasing drugs ought not be exposed and severely punished. But when it comes to substances that do not seem to have any performance enhancing qualities-chiefly marijuana-there is growing debate among anti-doping officials. |
| Apr 5, 2007 |
What Have They Been Smoking At Health Canada? ...Health Canada has stated in court that compassion clubs have historically provided a safe source to those with medical need. But on the licence application there is no option to choose compassion clubs as a supply source. Applicants after a high quality legal product are out of luck. Hoops for those in need, loopholes for those in power. ... |
| Apr 4, 2007 |
Saving Us From Ourselves A British study released last Friday about the dangers to human health of tobacco and alcohol and illegal drugs like marijuana and ecstasy raises some interesting questions on how legislators make decisions about substances we can legally obtain and those we can't. |
| Apr 2, 2007 |
Cops Target Pot-Smoking Teens In Jackson Park Undercover Windsor police officers involved in a special operation busted a group of teens for smoking marijuana around Jackson Park. In a news release, Staff Sgt. Stephen Bodri said young officers in plain clothes have been working on the problem of high school students using drugs in Jackson Park during their school breaks. They busted the teens Thursday. [There must be a lack of serious crime in the area] |
| Mar 31, 2007 |
Pot Crusader Upset At Crown There was no joy for medicinal marijuana activist Grant Krieger on Friday when the Crown stayed a trafficking charge dating back to 1999, for which the Supreme Court had granted Krieger a new trial. "That's disappointing," Krieger said when advised the stay was officially entered by Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice Neil Wittmann at the behest of the federal Crown. "But that's the way the system works. . . . The only way I can get it fixed is in front of a jury, so the jury can nullify this nonsense. "They ( the Crown ) know that's what I want to do. They don't want the laws changed." |
| Mar 31, 2007 |
Police Endangered Kids, Man Says A Hamilton man charged in a drug raid says police broke down his door and shot his pit bull while two children were only several feet away. Carlsin Cromwell, 26, said he will file a formal complaint with Hamilton police today claiming members of their elite drugs and vice unit endangered his children's lives. Cromwell said police fired up to seven times at Zeus, his 12-year-old pit bull. |
| Mar 30, 2007 |
Marijuana Advocate Pleads Guilty to Pot Possession Driving a car plastered with marijuana leaf logos and stickers is bound to catch the eye of police -- particularly if you're on the way to the annual Hempfest celebration. That's what happened to a Montreal man nearly seven years ago, a Sault Ste. Marie judge heard Thursday. Marc Boris St-Maurice was leader of the Marijuana Party at the time of the July 21, 2000 stop. Since then he has joined the Liberal Party and plans to seek the nomination in a Montreal riding, he says. |