Top Stories (2007) -
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| Oct 28, 2007 |
'The Bud Stops Here,' - Inspection Team On average, the Township's Public Safety Inspection Team ( PSIT ) is finding evidence of eight marijuana grow operations per week. |
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| Oct 26, 2007 |
Pot Use Not A High Point For Leaders Wall said his party didn't agree with legalization. He was then was asked whether he had ever smoked marijuana. After a pregnant pause, Wall's answer was "yes," which was also his response on whether he had inhaled. [Hypocrite] |
| Oct 26, 2007 |
Immigrant Workers Found Innocent In Dope Farm Bust Five Asian immigrants arrested after they were found working on a massive rural dope farm did not know they were breaking the law, a judge has ruled. |
| Oct 26, 2007 |
Drugs In High School: 'You Can Get Any Drug You Want' They wander the halls, moving back and forth from group to group. They make their way through our high schools, tempting each and every student. Some lurk inside lockers. Others hide in coat pockets, jean pockets...any place where students think they won't be found. They are drugs. |
| Oct 25, 2007 |
Pot And The Ferry The Transportation Safety Board last week raised some disturbing concerns about regular cannabis use by crew members aboard the Queen of the North. As part of the board's ongoing investigation into the sinking of the QN, it released Oct. 17 a "board concern" outlining its findings, and urging BC Ferries to figure out as soon as possible whether drug use is a problem on other vessels in the northern fleet. |
| Oct 25, 2007 |
Burnaby Grow-Op Raises Child Welfare Concerns B.C. social workers are calling for a code to investigate children living in houses with marijuana grow operations, after Burnaby RCMP found three children under 5 in a Burnaby operation this month. |
| Oct 25, 2007 |
Hair Test Kit Can Spot Kids' Drug Use An American company has come up with a home drug-testing kit for parents who suspect their kids are up to no good. Parents can already use GPS tracking devices in cars or cell phones to monitor their teens' whereabouts and online monitoring tools to track their kids' Internet usage. Now, for $64.99 US, HairConfirm can let parents know within 48 hours if their teen is using drugs. "It can test for seven different drugs -- including amphetamines, cocaine, ecstasy, PCP and marijuana," said Confirm BioSciences CEO Zeynep Ilgaz, whose San Diego-based company posted revenues last year of $2.6 million. [Follow the money - who cares how it affects kids and their parental relationships. No wonder more kids are abusing deadly prescription drugs] |
| Oct 25, 2007 |
Trustee Charged With Growing Pot for Trafficking A Manitoba school trustee has been charged with growing marijuana and possession of marijuana for the purposes of trafficking. |
| Oct 24, 2007 |
Party Has High Hopes A user of medicinal marijuana in Regina has joined the race for a seat in Saskatchewan's legislature to push for a greener society -- and he doesn't mean the environment. Tom Shapiro, 51, has let his name stand as Saskatchewan Marijuana Party candidate for the riding of Regina Coronation Park. |
| Oct 23, 2007 |
RCMP Refused To Test Crew For Drugs David Hahn, president of BC Ferries, repeatedly asked to have the bridge crew of the Queen of the North tested for drugs and alcohol in the hours after the ship crashed and sank, but RCMP investigators refused. |
| Oct 23, 2007 |
Judge Gets Tough With Pot Grower Saying the community is fed up with light sentences that do nothing to curb the "epidemic" proliferation of marijuana grow houses here, a Windsor judge Monday gave a Woodbridge, Ont., woman a 21-month sentence, six months more than what the prosecution was seeking. |
| Oct 23, 2007 |
Europeans Know Drug Abuse Is an Illness, Not a Crime Europe has a drug problem, and knows it. But the Europeans' approach to it is quite different from the North American "war on drugs." I spend 120 days a year in Europe as a travel writer, so I decided to see for myself how it's working. I talked with locals, researched European drug policies and even visited a smoky marijuana "coffee shop" in Amsterdam. I got a close look at the alternative to a war on drugs. Europeans are well aware of the North American track record against illegal drug use. |
| Oct 22, 2007 |
Pro-Pot Protest Nets Just 60 People Police were out in full force for a contingent of mostly teenagers protesting to decriminalize marijuana during Saturday's pro-pot rally. About 60 people marched up Pitt Street to Domino's Pizza near Tollgate Road for the first-ever Walk 4 Weed demonstration. It was a far cry from the hundreds who were expected to attend, but that didn't stop organizers from forging ahead with the peaceful demonstration. [So does police intimidation work?] |
| Oct 22, 2007 |
Emery Case Rolls Out in Prince of Pot Doc There aren't enough adjectives in the dictionary to describe Marc Emery. Abrasive, brash, compelling, driven . . . and that's just the beginning of the alphabet. It's not surprising, then, that a new documentary on Emery's impending extradition hearing -- and possible life imprisonment for selling pot seeds -- is chock-full of the kind of hyperbole that vaulted him into headlines here when he was a London bookseller and political gadfly. |
| Oct 22, 2007 |
A Criminal Mind: Juries Can Nullify, Just Don't Tell The common law recognizes the jury's power not to convict when a law is unfair, or when it would unfairly impact upon the accused. This is known as jury nullification. The trilogy of Canadian cases from the Supreme Court of Canada that have dealt with this are R. v. Morgentaler ( 1988 ), R. v. Latimer ( 2001 ), and the recent case of R. v. Krieger ( 2006 ). |
| Oct 21, 2007 |
Can Employers Test For Pot? Drug and alcohol testing programs can be implemented in workplaces in Canada -- and employees suspended or fired as a consequence of the results. But Karen Izzard of the Canadian Human Rights Commission said Friday that employers who choose to do so face human-rights complaints or lawsuits. |
| Oct 19, 2007 |
Minister Rejects Mandatory Drug-Test Law Federal Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon won't legislate mandatory drug testing to weed out pot-smoking crew members on B.C. Ferries' northern fleet. Cannon says Canada's ferry operators already have the power to perform regular drug testing on employees, and he has instructed B.C. Ferries to get its own ship in order. |
| Oct 19, 2007 |
Choose Your Poison On the farming side, any policy that successfully reduces the production of marijuana to a significant degree will utterly crash the economy of most of the interior of British Columbia. Mining, fishing, forestry and food farming, the mainstays of the interior economy, home to two million, have all been in inexorable decline for decades. The only thing keeping most families afloat is production of marijuana or jobs in retail and other industries supported by the proceeds of sales of marijuana by the growers. |
| Oct 19, 2007 |
ONTARIO JUDGE RULES CANNABIS PROHIBITION INVALID <strong>Today in an Oshawa Court, the trial judge in the 'Tom, Dick, and Harry' case dismissed the charges against them, for simple possession of marijuana. He said that in his view the marijuana prohibition had no valid force or effect. ...He said the cases against Tom, Dick, and Harry, are dismissed because the law is not there to charge them or convict them. The exact terms of his decision will be available later, after an exchange of faxes with the Court house. </strong> [Every person arrested for a cannabis offense should read this important information and make their lawyer aware of it - this is a federal law and should be applied the same across the country] |
| Oct 18, 2007 |
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Hawkesbury Shops Ditch Drug Paraphernalia Hawkesbury merchants plan to stop selling marijuana bongs, drug pipes and other accessories at the request of police, even though it's legal to do so. The decision comes after a town hall meeting last week when store owners agreed with Hawkesbury OPP that they were aiding drug use by selling the paraphernalia, especially to youth. [More harm reduction out the window - kids will use pop cans and other questionable materials instead] |