Top Stories (2008) -
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| Apr 24, 2008 |
Prohibition, Pot and Politics There's a certain strong odour a visitor notices when first stepping into the Compassion Club medicinal marijuana distribution centre on Rachel and St-Laurent. It doesn't take any time to figure out what it is. Marijuana activists have called the building home for years, and, if Boris St-Maurice gets his way, the weed will make it back to the forefront of a national dialogue sooner probably than the federal Conservative Party would like. |
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| Apr 23, 2008 |
BC:
Lawyer Fights 'Totalitarian' Grow-Op Law His lawyer, Joseph Arvay, is seeking to have the B.C. Supreme Court overturn the provincial government's amendments to the Safety Standards Act, which were designed to allow police officers access to homes where marijuana is suspected of being cultivated without going through the lengthy process of obtaining a search warrant issued under the Criminal Code. Police have complained that the sheer numbers of homes being used to grow marijuana in B.C. make it impossible for them to use the search warrant process to close them down. |
| Apr 23, 2008 |
Pot Church Fights For Home Defence lawyer Peter Boushy argued it was one thing for the Crown to seek the forfeitures of marijuana grow operations where property owners stood to make hundreds of thousands of dollars in the proceeds of crime. <strong>It was another matter entirely, he said, for the Crown to seize the primary residence of two aging men who had sold $70 worth of pot to an undercover cop.</strong> Total abuse of the system - under these circumstances, millions of Canadians could risk losing their homes... |
| Apr 21, 2008 |
Hundreds Turn Out For Pro-Pot Rally Niagara Falls - Hundreds who believe Canadians should have the right to smoke up without fear of being charged took to the streets of Niagara Falls Sunday afternoon to draw attention to their cause. |
| Apr 21, 2008 |
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Pot Lovers Light Up, Party at Festivities in Victoria London - Hundreds of doobie devotees celebrated the most important date on the pothead calendar yesterday by getting lit at London's Victoria Park. A cloud of marijuana smoke wafted into the air at about 4:20 p.m., on the 20th day of the fourth month of the year |
| Apr 21, 2008 |
MB:
Thousands Celebrate Love of Earth, Weed Winnipeg - Security guards and police officers watched on the sidelines as the Manitoba Legislative Building grounds went up in smoke on Sunday. The grass didn't catch fire but thousands of people lit up marijuana joints or fired up their bongs to protest the criminalization of the drug. |
| Apr 18, 2008 |
Team Shuts Down 200 Pot Farms The municipal team does not arrest growers, but forces them to move on. Langley's Safety Inspection Team has been moving at a faster pace than anyone expected in the past year. On Tuesday, Township Mayor Kurt Alberts told the Chamber of Commerce that the teams have shut down 217 marijuana grow operations. "That's three to five per week," Alberts said. |
| Apr 15, 2008 |
Who'll Grow the Weed, Man? OTTAWA -- Health Canada is looking for someone to grow its weed. The department served notice yesterday it will soon invite firms to bid on a contract to cultivate and distribute medical marijuana, which Prairie Plant Systems Inc. of Flin Flon, Man., is now doing |
| Apr 15, 2008 |
Debate Over Steve Walton Presentation This past week, I received a barrage of emails in response to the story on Steve Walton's presentation to BCHS students. I was shocked and disappointed by what they had to say. One emailer from Calgary said that Walton was misleading young people on the dangers of using marijuana. He claimed that despite the lies of someone like Walton, that young people will only be able to learn the truth through experiencing the drug. "The lies do much more harm than good," he said. |
| Apr 15, 2008 |
Midlife Toking on the Rise An increasing number of adults - particularly those in their 30s and 40s - are using marijuana, according to a new Ontario-wide report that reflects what experts describe as a growing cross-country trend. |
| Apr 15, 2008 |
Resident Shaken by Police Raid Oakville landscaper Brock Morris was left shaken and shaking his head after the Halton police raided his home at gunpoint, Friday, in search of a marijuana grow house operation. The police walked away empty handed from the raid, leaving Morris and his family bewildered and shaken. |
| Apr 14, 2008 |
Medical Pot Users On Hook For $500,000 OTTAWA -- Medical marijuana users are on the hook for more than $500,000 in unpaid bills for government-certified weed, raising questions about the effectiveness of Health Canada's troubled dope program |
| Apr 10, 2008 |
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Man Convicted in Drug Case Plans to Appeal REGINA -- While he awaits sentencing in Saskatchewan's largest marijuana grow-op bust, Lawrence Hubert Agecoutay has been busy laying the groundwork for his appeal. |
| Apr 10, 2008 |
One-Quarter of Students Smoking Up During School One in four Nanaimo secondary students is using marijuana while at school. That's one of the findings of the second annual Safe Schools Survey conducted in Nanaimo secondary schools in February 2007. Almost 5,000 students from Grades 8-12 took the survey. |
| Apr 4, 2008 |
Hemp Business 'Possibly Targeted' After four separate incidences of vandalism in March, the owner of downtown Sechelt's 420 Hemp Shop is considering closing his shop for good. |
| Apr 3, 2008 |
Legalize By 2010 Here's a crazy idea that may sound a bit absurd, but follow me through on this: Cannabis will be legalized in the United States of America by 2010. |
| Apr 3, 2008 |
Surrey Fire Plan Smokes Out Area Grow-ops In a nutshell, his research team works on the premise that because the B.C. grow-op problem is so large, there's not nearly enough capacity by police or the courts to deal with it. .. "The justice system is inept at dealing with this problem so, instead, we've created a system of major disruptions to a grow-operators' business," Plecas explains. "That's the program I outlined at Oxford." Officially it's known as the Electrical Fire Safety Initiative, primarily because a house containing a grow-op is 29 times more likely to catch fire than a regular house, Plecas says. |
| Apr 3, 2008 |
Homegrown Bailout? There's a massive cloud of cannabis confusion hovering around Marc Emery's extradition case now that the deal between the Prince of Pot and U.S. prosecutors has hit the skids. |
| Apr 3, 2008 |
Interview By Matt Mernagh With Pot Seed Breeder Dan My original quest to speak with Konstantin amongst cannabis community contacts turned up all the wrong leads. His lawyer hooked me up. |
| Apr 2, 2008 |
Hemp Farming, The Other Cash Crop It's been three long years of research, meetings, planning and trials and this is the year to prove it's all been worthwhile. The District of 100 Mile House has been actively pursuing hemp farming, a project identified by the Cariboo-Chilcotin Beetle Action Committee as a possible strategy for economic diversification. |