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| Sep 12, 2007 |
Marijuana-smoking Troops Banned From Afghanistan OTTAWA - Some 250 soldiers who tested positive for drugs were not allowed to serve in Afghanistan, the Canadian Forces confirmed yesterday. |
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| Sep 12, 2007 |
NS:
Judge Reins In Accused In Marijuana Case Ricky Logan Simpson, who is defending himself, sighed and shook his head when Justice Felix Cacchione intervened for about the 12th time Tuesday to prevent him from questioning one of four RCMP officers during the second day of his trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court. |
| Sep 12, 2007 |
BC:
Just 300 Grow Ops To Go A marijuana grow busting program is being hailed as a tremendous success, with a 65 per cent drop in home plantations expected this year. The remainder will be wiped out this fall. Surrey Fire Chief Len Garis received B.C. Hydro records in January 2007 indicating the location of 1,000 homes with extraordinary power consumption - considered a "signature" for marijuana grow operations. |
| Sep 12, 2007 |
Senior Officer Charged In Arrest, Strip Search EDMONTON - A city police officer has been charged with unlawful exercise of authority for arresting and strip searching the son of lawyer Tom Engel after evidence of the alleged crime -- a marijuana cigarette -- was thrown away. |
| Sep 11, 2007 |
B.C. Man Taking Pot Message To Ottawa Neil Magnuson is skating across Canada to raise awareness about the prohibition of cannabis and stopped in Moose Jaw on the weekend. Magnuson started in Vancouver in July. He is making his way across the country to Ottawa. In Ottawa, Magnuson will be speaking on Remembrance Day about his cause. On his way, he will be stopping in different towns to talk to the people about cannabis. |
| Sep 11, 2007 |
New Dosage Limits for Medical Marijuana But Where's The Science? New evidence-based guidelines are urgently needed to help doctors negotiate Canada's hazy medical marijuana landscape, particularly in light of Health Canada's efforts to impose new dose limits, say the nation's leading cannabis researcher and doctors who have been queried about their marijuana authorizations. |
| Sep 8, 2007 |
It's For Tobacco, Really (Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge) In every quadrant of our city, one can find shops where brightly coloured bongs line the shelves and a wide selection of pipes sit in glass cases. The stores have names like Grass Roots, Hemporium and Bongs and Such, just in case you still don't get the idea. Known to some as "head shops," such businesses have been sprouting like, well, weeds all over booming Calgary. You can find them in Forest Lawn, in the northeast industrial area and in the tony shopping districts of Kensington and 17th Avenue S.W. |
| Sep 7, 2007 |
Time To Address Medical Marijuana, Onley Says TORONTO -- He didn't say it outright, but one day after being sworn in as Ontario's 28th Lieutenant-Governor, David Onley all but endorsed medicinal marijuana use by the chronically ill. |
| Sep 6, 2007 |
Teens Smoke More Pot Than Cigarettes, Report Says After alcohol, cannabis was the most commonly used illegal substance among youth. Cannabis use is reported by 17 per cent of students in grades 7 to 9, about 29 per cent of 15- to 17-year-olds, and almost half of 18- to 19-year-olds, the substance abuse centre report said. Pot smoking, in fact, now exceeds the rate of cigarette smoking among youth, the study found. |
| Sep 4, 2007 |
BC:
Sea King Helps Nab Grow Operations The Canadian Forces participation in the annual RCMP marijuana-eradication program - called Operation SABOT within the military - involves the provision of CF helicopters as observation platforms and transportation for RCMP teams hunting for grow sites. |
| Sep 3, 2007 |
The Unfairness Of The Forfeiture Law ...But in a justice system that revolves around presumed innocence, civil forfeiture changes the rules. It enables the Crown to take suspected criminals to a civil court when the evidence is not strong enough to hold up in a criminal one. There, the Crown doesn't need to prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt; it needs only to establish its case on a balance of probabilities. Even before it achieves that minimal standard, the province is able to freeze property until the court date, potentially bankrupting individuals before demonstrating that the assets it has seized were ill-gotten. |
| Sep 2, 2007 |
Retired Prescott Police Officer Faces Drug-Trafficking A retired officer with the Prescott police force was one of nine people charged this week in connection with drug trafficking in the border town. Bruce Perrin, 58, was arrested on Aug. 29. He is the second current or former police officer from the Seaway Valley to face drug charges this year. |
| Sep 1, 2007 |
The Latest From Hemp - Brain Food, Indeed The story: The question these days is what can't be made out of hemp? Clothing, lotions, beer and now this non-dairy "milk" from Manitoba Harvest, introduced earlier this year in original, vanilla and chocolate flavours. The Winnipeg-based company also produces hemp-seed oil, butter and protein powder. Derived from organic hemp seeds, the beverage is rich in essential fatty acids and is touted as a breakfast "brain food" that can be imbibed straight, on cereal or in morning coffee. The source: Hemp Bliss can be purchased online from www.manitobaharvest.com. The site also contains recipes for dishes like hemp burgers, hemp pesto verde and hempy chicken casserole. |
| Sep 1, 2007 |
The Latest From Hemp - Brain Food, Indeed The question these days is what can't be made out of hemp? Clothing, lotions, beer and now this non-dairy "milk" from Manitoba Harvest, introduced earlier this year in original, vanilla and chocolate flavours. The Winnipeg-based company also produces hemp-seed oil, butter and protein powder. Derived from organic hemp seeds, the beverage is rich in essential fatty acids and is touted as a breakfast "brain food" that can be imbibed straight, on cereal or in morning coffee. |
| Aug 31, 2007 |
ON:
OPP Says RIDE Check At Hempfest Was Legitimate Ontario Provincial Police say an impaired driving checkpoint outside Hempfest wasn't a ploy to search festival-goers for pot, and deny charges by organizers of the annual cannabis festival that police attempted to drive off attendees. ...Rob Waddell, organizer of Hempfest, pointed out this week that no impaired driving charges were laid, for drugs or alcohol. He also charged OPP went above and beyond their normal practice at RIDE checks by questioning passengers, checking for documentation and doing vehicle safety checks. Some who attended Hempfest described a military-style roadblock a short distance from the event, manned by as many as 20 police officers. |
| Aug 31, 2007 |
Realtor Accused of Growing Dope Woman and Husband Allegedly Ran Two Grows; One at Home, One in Suite RICHMOND - A Richmond real-estate agent has been charged with running marijuana grow-ops -- one at a home where five children were found. |
| Aug 31, 2007 |
BC:
Marijuana Busts Set a Record Team Finds 19,000 Plants at 350 Sites in Nine-Day Campaign Island police say they've destroyed the largest amount of marijuana since they started a summer eradication program eight years ago. A combined team of RCMP, municipal police and Canadian Forces personnel found more than 19,000 plants at 350 sites during a nine-day campaign that ended this week. [Wow, the world is safer now ] |
| Aug 30, 2007 |
MS Sufferers Look to Mary Jane for Relief Tremlett said that anecdotal evidence from people with MS suggests that marijuana is helpful, but clinical trials have not proven its effectiveness. She said there is a "potential mechanism", which could account for the positive responses. Tremlett explained that there are cannabinoid receptors found on pain pathways in the brain and spinal cord. It is believed that because pain is mediated through those pathways, cannabis is able to offer relief. |
| Aug 29, 2007 |
Bowering In Favour Of Legalizing Pot The head of public health for the North wants to see radical reform in how Canada deals with psychoactive drugs. Dr. David Bowering told The Interior News last week that legalization of marijuana needs to be the subject of much more open and frank public discussion. Bowering is a member of the Health Officers Council of British Columbia ( HOC ) that, in October 2005, released a position paper calling for a public health approach to drug control. At the heart of the matter, Bowering said, is harm reduction. |
| Aug 29, 2007 |
Mental Illness Medications Go To Pot The association between marijuana use and mental illness is tiny and one that definitely doesn't indicate a cause-and-effect relationship. The truth is that those more prone to mental illness are also more prone to using marijuana ( or alcohol, for that matter ) to take the edge off symptoms, which alone is enough to create a correlation. |