Top Stories (2007) -
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| Nov 12, 2007 |
Pot Trade Slows "It's very simple," said Stephen Easton, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C. "Canadian marijuana production costs are met in Canadian dollars, and those are worth more now." |
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| Nov 11, 2007 |
'Marijuana Is an Addictive Drug' Andy Ivens The Province Sgt. Scott Rintoul mans the RCMP's drug-awareness bureau in B.C. Well-acquainted with the arguments for legalizing marijuana, he challenges the legal-pot advocates to consider one important point -- our children. |
| Nov 11, 2007 |
'Legalize It, Control It And Tax The Livin' Hell Out Of It Larry Campbell has seen the effects of Canada's marijuana prohibition laws first-hand, as an RCMP drug officer for eight years and as chief coroner of B.C. before his election as mayor of Vancouver in 2002. He figures the drug should be legalized, controlled -- and taxed like tobacco. |
| Nov 10, 2007 |
Pot Search Legal A dreadlocked Toronto human rights worker has lost a "test case" against Canadian border officials after claiming he was targeted for a Pearson airport drug search because of his hairstyle. |
| Nov 10, 2007 |
Worker's Rights Violated, Judge Rules A former pipeline worker made a good decision when he asked to have a marijuana possession charge from Kirkland Lake transferred to Kingston's Ontario Court of Justice. |
| Nov 9, 2007 |
Prodigious Pot Smuggler Out On Parole Busted for shipping millions of dollars worth of pot through Saskatchewan's borders, Daren Wayne Smith is now on parole from his six-year prison sentence imposed last year -- but not for much longer if the Crown has its way. |
| Nov 9, 2007 |
Drunks Put End to Pot Meetings The smoke has cleared and it was alcohol that killed the marijuana bash. After 12 years, the world's largest weekly pot rally has been stubbed out because of drinking. |
| Nov 8, 2007 |
University's Used and Abused: Marijuana Few people would recognize 9-tetrahydrocannabinol without its abbreviation as THC. Even as THC, for many it remains an esoteric chemical substance - in fact it is the active molecule in marijuana and it is this week's featured drug in University's Used and Abused. |
| Nov 5, 2007 |
Professor's Grant Goes To 'Pot' The goal of the cannabis research is to find a way to block the production of psychoactive cannabinoids that produce the mind-altering effects in users so cannabis can become a useful crop for oil, fibre and even food, said Facchini. [Are they trying to re-invent hemp?] |
| Nov 5, 2007 |
More Calgary Children Seized From Grow Ops More than 60 per cent of all children seized from drug houses in Alberta under the year-old Drug Endangered Children Act were in the Calgary region. Alberta Children's Services figures show 23 of the 38 children apprehended under the act came from the Calgary area, which includes Banff, Cochrane and High River. |
| Nov 3, 2007 |
Oh, to Stumble Upon a Field of Dreams ... Well, they're at it again. Like a swarm of locusts, the boys in blue have been tromping their ways through the wilds of Nova Scotia this fall wreaking havoc on the well-tended crops of several upstanding, run of the mill criminals who worked oh so diligently to maintain their lush greenery that not only brings happiness to those throughout the land but also creates a future for agricultural up-and-comers. |
| Nov 3, 2007 |
Emery's Bravado May End Up Costing Him Dearly Nick Wilson's long anticipated documentary on Marc Emery, The Prince of Pot, aired on CBC Newsworld's The Lens last week, painting a very bleak picture of Emery's chances of being extradited to America to face charges brought two years ago by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. |
| Nov 2, 2007 |
Marijuana Comments Raise Concerns During the question and answer part of the forum on Nov. 1, a student asked Chad Nilson about legalizing marijuana. Nilson responded that because that issue falls under federal jurisdiction, students should lobby their MP if they want marijuana legalized. Saskatchewan Party candidates Darryl Hickie and Kevin Shiach said they have received phone calls from parents concerned that Nilson was advocating legalization. |
| Nov 1, 2007 |
Northside Man Wants Medical-Pot Regulations Relaxed Rocky Paul has been using medical marijuana to control pain and other discomforts for the last seven years. The St. Mary's First Nation resident would like to see the rules eased up a bit so that those who need the drug can get it more easily. Paul said as many as 30 pages of documents have to be filled out once a year by patients and their doctors in order to continue to qualify for the licence. |
| Nov 1, 2007 |
Let's Rethink Drug Discourse In grade school we get the this-is-your-brain-on-drugs lecture and learn many ways to say no. But what's missing is how to say yes in moderation. People of all ages are doing drugs, and it's time to recognize that information based on abstinence does more harm than good. |
| Nov 1, 2007 |
Northside Man Wants Medical-Pot Regulations Relaxed Rocky Paul has been using medical marijuana to control pain and other discomforts for the last seven years. The St. Mary's First Nation resident would like to see the rules eased up a bit so that those who need the drug can get it more easily. Paul said as many as 30 pages of documents have to be filled out once a year by patients and their doctors in order to continue to qualify for the licence. |
| Nov 1, 2007 |
Suspended Driver Sues A driver given a 24-hour suspension because police suspected he was high on marijuana is suing to have the ban removed from his records. Jugveer Singh Purewal says in a petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court that he told a Surrey police officer he was not under the influence of drugs when he was pulled over early Sept. 14 and suspended from driving for 24 hours. Purewal said the officer didn't administer a sobriety test and he was denied the opportunity to dispute the ban because there is no mechanism to do so when a 24-hour driving suspension is based on suspected drug use. |
| Oct 31, 2007 |
Politicians And Professors Debate National Drug Policy CANADA'S NATIONAL DRUG policy is in a state of flux. The former Liberal federal government made moves towards decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana and instituted a medical-marijuana program during its last session in power. The current Conservative government has taken a tougher stance towards illegal drugs by taking steps to increase both the prosecution of drug offenders and penalties for drug offences |
| Oct 30, 2007 |
Promoting One Of The Deadliest Drugs Of All A glossy brochure recently dropped out of my newspaper: "Discover your taste for whisky," it advised. As it happens, I discovered my taste for whisky long ago and so was not in need of this advice. But it struck me as surpassingly odd that the Liquor Control Board of Ontario is spending a considerable amount of money to persuade the uninitiated to try potent forms of a psychoactive drug whose known risks include addiction, cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disorders, liver cirrhosis, several types of cancer, fetal alcohol syndrome and fatal overdose. |
| Oct 29, 2007 |
Growing Fear As the trees change from green to red and orange along Highway 400, city dwellers make fewer weekend treks hours north of Toronto, through winding country roads, into the heart of cottage country. The seasonal holidaymakers are replaced instead by the criminals involved in outdoor marijuana growops who each year descend upon the region's remote swampland, fields and forests to harvest their crop, but who this year are behind levels of violence so unprecedented that it has residents and cottagers thoroughly frightened. |