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| Oct 2, 2007 |
Own Up To Your Teenage Reefer Madness 'Dad, did you smoke pot when you were in high school?" "Yes, but actually I was in eighth grade when I started." "No." ( Actually, I did but I don't want to tell him because I don't want him to get any ideas. ) "No." ( It's true that I didn't. I was kind of a goody-two-shoes. But frankly, I've always wondered if I would have had more fun as a teenager if I had been willing to take more chances. I think maybe I missed out. ) "It's none of your business." What should you tell your kids - and how honest should you be - about your teenage adventures with sex, drugs and drinking? |
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| Oct 1, 2007 |
Patients, Activists To Address Ramifications Of New National Anti-Drug MEDIA ADVISORY Location: Charles Lynch Press Theatre, Room 130-S, Parliament Hill, Ottawa Date and Time: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 1 p.m. For further Information: Christine Lowe - 613-248-9190 Tara Lyons - 613-263-1335 |
| Oct 1, 2007 |
Tory Pot Smokers Should Be The First To Turn Themselves Into Police! Stephen Harper is about to declare another 'War on drugs.' Statistics show that roughly 16.8% of Canadians use marijuana / cannabis. You therefore have to assume that there MUST be a couple of Conservative Members of Parliament who fit into the 16.8% number. ... It is time for EVERY card carrying member of the Conservative Party of Canada who uses cannabis to lead by example and turn themselves into the police immediately whether or not they support Harper's new initiative. |
| Oct 1, 2007 |
PR: New National Anti-Drug Strategy plays politics with people's lives TORONTO, Oct. 1 /CNW/ - The new National Anti-Drug Strategy to be officially unveiled this week by federal Health Minister Tony Clement is a huge step backward for Canada's response to HIV/AIDS, said the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network today...."It seems clear that the new drug strategy is based on ideology instead of evidence, and from every angle - human rights, public health, or use of taxpayers' dollars - that's irresponsible and unacceptable." |
| Sep 30, 2007 |
Tories to Drug Users: The Party's Over Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: "the party's over" for illicit drug users. "In the next few days, we're going to be back in the business of an anti-drug strategy," Clement told The Canadian Press. "In that sense, the party's over." Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Halifax all reported increases of between 20% and 50% in 2006 of arrests for possession of cannabis, compared with the previous year. As a result thousands of people were charged with a criminal offence that, under the previous Liberal government, was on the verge of being classified as a misdemeanour. |
| Sep 30, 2007 |
'Party's Over' For Druggies: Health Minister OTTAWA -- Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: "The party's over" for illicit drug users. "In the next few days, we're going to be back in the business of an anti-drug strategy," Clement said. "In that sense, the party's over." |
| Sep 29, 2007 |
Cannabis Culture Lights Up the Festival Films About Marijuana Are Challenging Viewers' Thoughts About the Politics Behind the Drug VANCOUVER -- Nick Wilson was 26, developing a documentary - his first - - about online infidelity, when he had a conversation with his 68-year-old aunt that sent him in a new direction. Aunt Wendy had seen a news story on TV about the Vancouver marijuana activist Marc Emery and she was incensed. Why were U.S. authorities after him? And why would Canada even consider extraditing a Canadian to face up to life in prison, simply for selling marijuana seeds? |
| Sep 29, 2007 |
BC:
'Grow Op War Won' Marijuana growers seem to be in rapid retreat, especially in Surrey, where civic officials are poised to declare victory over local grow-ops. The most powerful weapon hasn't been increased conventional policing, but rather the threat of electrical inspections and service disconnections for residential homes that B.C. Hydro records show have extreme power consumption, a tell-tale sign of a grow-op. [What will they do when the next generation of lights do not use much electricity and are much cooler?] |
| Sep 28, 2007 |
Pot Exports Harmed By Strong Loonie The strong Canadian dollar has hit the illegal marijuana sector just as it has other industries that export to the United States, one of Canada's best known legalization advocates said Thursday. |
| Sep 27, 2007 |
Stop Selling of Grow-Op Equipment - Fire Chiefs Canada's fire chiefs are calling for the government to restrict the sale of hydroponics equipment in an attempt to quash the proliferation of clandestine marijuana grow operations. |
| Sep 27, 2007 |
ON:
Time For City To Grow Op After three hours punching each other silly over issues like amending the fireworks bylaw, the licensing and standards committee is finally ready to hear my deputation September 11. I'm here on behalf of the Canadian Cannabis Society to speak to the final agenda item: how the city plans to police pot and divvy up the proceeds of grow op busts. |
| Sep 27, 2007 |
Stop Selling of Grow-Op Equipment - Fire Chiefs Canada's fire chiefs are calling for the government to restrict the sale of hydroponics equipment in an attempt to quash the proliferation of clandestine marijuana grow operations... "These operations create a significant hazard for the community and for the health and safety of firefighters not only in Niagara, but across the country," Ontario Fire Marshal Pat Burke said Wednesday. |
| Sep 24, 2007 |
Marijuana and the Munchies Whether or not you've ever tried marijuana, whether or not you've inhaled, you have your own cannabis infrastructure, a grid of nerve receptors that changes your experience of pain, sleep and appetite. We all make our own natural cannabinoids, marijuana-like chemical compounds...Looking for an anti-munchies drug, researchers found the synthetic compound rimonabant, a cannabinoid blocker. ( It switches off the same neural network that our own cannabinoids and marijuana turn on. ) So long as you stay on it, the drug reduces appetite, blood sugar, waist size and weight ( by about five per cent ), while it raises HDL ( "good" ) cholesterol. |
| Sep 17, 2007 |
Regulating Hydroponics Start Of Slippery Slope But lost amid all the good news is another initiative the City of Surrey is proposing - a registration system for hydroponic equipment. ...What happens to the information collected? Do the police and fire department make a quick visit to make sure only tomatoes are being grown? Do you have to undergo a criminal record check to grow vegetables? |
| Sep 17, 2007 |
AG Increases Use of Forfeiture Powers to Seize Assets The Ministry of the Attorney General has increased its use of sweeping provincial civil forfeiture powers in the past year to seize assets, including people's homes, even if criminal proceedings have been stayed or withdrawn because of Charter violations. ...A report issued recently by the attorney general's office stated that $3.6 million in property has been seized in the past four years in 170 proceedings. Nearly $1 million has been distributed to crime victims and more than $900,000 transferred to municipal police forces. [More US-style war on civil liberties] |
| Sep 17, 2007 |
AB:
'Prince of Pot' Gets White Hat Canada's "Prince of Pot" has joined the ranks of singer Dolly Parton, Prince Philip and Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean. Arriving at the Calgary airport for a two-day visit Saturday, Canada's best-known marijuana activist, Marc Emery, was white-hatted by the Calgary Airport's official White Hat Volunteers. |
| Sep 14, 2007 |
NS:
Marijuana Court Case Turns Into Constitutional Concern However, Ricky Logan Simpson, 57, told the jury hearing his Nova Scotia Supreme Court trial on three drug charges that he should not be considered a criminal because the laws forbidding the possession, growing and distribution of marijuana are unconstitutional. |
| Sep 14, 2007 |
'Not A Case Of Turning A Blind Eye': Lawyer FIVE Chinese immigrants should be given the benefit of the doubt and cleared of charges they knowingly participated in a massive marijuana grow operation, their lawyer argued Thursday....All five testified in their own defence and told court they didn't realize the crop they were working on was marijuana. Some believed it was fruit or vegetable, while one man thought it was "Chinese medicinal herbs". |
| Sep 13, 2007 |
Soldier Claims Entrapment In Drug Trafficking Case OROMOCTO, N.B. - A soldier who sold a small quantity of marijuana to an undercover officer was convicted Wednesday of drug trafficking, prompting his lawyer to introduce a motion claiming abuse of process. |
| Sep 13, 2007 |
Drug Ads Could Trigger Tokers Do anti-pot ads just make folks want to spark up? Health Minister Tony Clement better find out before he launches that no-nonsense anti-drug campaign he's been threatening...More than that, students in their study reported that the pot spots actually made them more likely to spliff up....The feds can't say they weren't warned. |