Top Stories (2008) -
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| Feb 11, 2008 |
Let's Hope These Cops Now Have The Message I can't recall the last reported incident of a shootout or police death during a raid on a B.C. grow-op. And yet coroner statistics show that, since 1992, 267 citizens have lost their lives in B.C. during police-related incidents. One involved the death of a young man with a channel-changer in his hand. Police who burst into his living room fired, thinking he had a gun. |
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| Feb 11, 2008 |
Medical Marijuana Advocates Cry Foul Today, discussion about reforming the country's marijuana laws is not on the political landscape. If anything, the country is moving in the opposite direction. The government of Stephen Harper has ruled out any changes to the law, and during a visit to marijuana-friendly Vancouver last week, Liberal leader Stephane Dion said his party is not going to advocate for the end of criminal sanctions for possession... As well, almost 45,000 criminal charges for simple possession continue to be laid each year, up nearly 20% from a decade ago. |
| Feb 11, 2008 |
Men Smuggle Pot From U.P. to Canada Two Iowa men pleaded guilty Wednesday to marijuana charges in Canada after they fell through the ice of a partially frozen river while trying to illegally enter the country from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. |
| Feb 11, 2008 |
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Pot Smoker Fights Bar Ban A man who uses "medical marijuana" [sic] to deal with pain from a neck injury he suffered in Mississauga nearly two decades ago is appealing to the Ontario Human Rights Commission for the right to smoke up in front of a Burlington sports bar he frequents. .."He wants me outside his bar by 100 feet. I just want to be treated like every other ( tobacco ) smoker," whom he says are often within 10 feet of the bar's front doors. |
| Feb 11, 2008 |
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A Little Science With Your Cafe, Madame? Tomorrow night, Montrealers will get a chance to share their thoughts and concerns at a Cafe Scientifique, an informal gathering where members of the public can chat with leading researchers in a setting that is less intimidating than a classroom or a doctor's office. ....The CIHR Cafe Scientifique's "Drugs: the Good, the Bad and the Useful" takes place tomorrow at 6 p.m. at O Patro Vys, 356 Mount Royal Ave. E. ( corner St. Denis St. ). Admission is free. |
| Feb 11, 2008 |
No Evidence To Support Legalization Of Drugs Advocates for legalized drugs make the claim that, since the "war on drugs" in the U.S. has failed, it is pointless for Canada to follow. Rather inconveniently, however, there's little evidence to support their assertions. Most recent figures suggest the opposite. |
| Feb 9, 2008 |
Elaborate Grow-Op Defence One To Remember Agecoutay as much as argues he can grow whatever he wants. He claims to be chief and spiritual leader of his own sovereign nation. As such, he makes his own laws on his own territory. Among his legislative initiatives, for example, is the sale over the Internet of memberships in his First Nation for $10,500. The fee is justified by Agecoutay's claim that members are exempt from Canadian taxes. Three of his co-accused are tax deniers from out of province who met Agecoutay through his website. The other two are Agecoutay's brothers, all three residing on the reserve. Apparently there is some jurisdictional overlap between the Pasqua First Nation and Agecoutay's First Nation. |
| Feb 9, 2008 |
Behind The Toronto Police Scandal Years Of Investigation Went Into A Case That, Thanks To Judge's Ruling, May Never Go To Trial Dozens of police officers under suspicion. A million pages of documents. Thousands of interviews. Hundreds of criminal charges. Easily the worst scandal in Toronto police history. And then it fell apart. Charges were stayed because the prosecutors took too long in handing over the mountain of evidence to the defence. [An definitive work on this subject] |
| Feb 9, 2008 |
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He's 'A Healer, Not A Dealer' AMHERST - A Maccan-area man who insists he has found the cure for cancer says he is leaving Canada for an unnamed country where he can live without fear of persecution or prosecution for taking and producing medicinal marijuana. |
| Feb 9, 2008 |
Safe-injection Clinics Are Okay, Legal Cannabis Is Not, Dion Says The federal Liberal Party has no intention of advocating the legalization of cannabis, but Leader Stephane Dion made it clear yesterday that under a Liberal government, other Canadian cities could have safe-injection sites like the one in Vancouver. |
| Feb 8, 2008 |
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Periodic Pooch Patrol A Positive Plan Attila Toldy and his police dog, Riff, have been given the go-ahead to start making random rounds at Elk Island Catholic School's ( EICS ) high schools within Strathcona County while kids are in class and out of the halls. Riff's powerful nose can sniff out crack, cocaine, psilocybin ( magic mushrooms ), marijuana and any other form of drug that police want him to. [The procedure adds to ongoing evidence of creeping fascism with genocidal leanings unless the dog detects tobacco, alcohol,prescription and OTC drugs as well] |
| Feb 8, 2008 |
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Appeal Grow-Op Ruling: Farnworth An accused pot grower caught a big break from a B.C. Supreme Court judge this week when his case was tossed out after the judge ruled the Surrey RCMP acted unreasonably during the raid on his house. Mike Farnworth, the provincial NDP's public safety critic, has called on the attorney general to appeal the decision. "I don't agree with this ruling," he said, fearing it might potentially hamper the ability of the police to take down grow ops. [So what makes the NDP different from the Liberals or Conservatives? Why should anyone vote for them?] |
| Feb 8, 2008 |
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City Stands Behind Inspection Bylaw Richmond - The chair of the city's community safety committee is standing behind a bylaw that targets residential marijuana grow-ops, despite strong public reaction against it. [Voters have to change their politicians, beginning at the local level and all the way up, if they want to be heard] |
| Feb 7, 2008 |
Pot Grower's Rights Violated: Judge A Surrey pot grower's Charter rights were violated when police used a battering ram to break down his door and find more than 700 plants in his basement, a B.C. Supreme Court judge just ruled. Police are unhappy with the ruling, and hope the Crown will appeal it. |
| Feb 6, 2008 |
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Rights body grants hearing to joint smoker An Ontario man who was told he was not allowed to smoke medical marijuana outside a local sports bar has been granted a hearing at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, one of the first cases of its kind in Canadian history. Steve Gibson, a father of two, is claiming he was discriminated against because of his disability after he was barred from Gator Ted's Tap and Grill in Burlington, Ont., in May, 2005, for smoking marijuana by the restaurant's front door. |
| Feb 6, 2008 |
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Business With Grow-Op Loses Licence Richmond - Operating a grow-op and keeping shoddy records were grounds used by city council to cancel a business licence and suspend another on Monday. |
| Feb 5, 2008 |
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Drug Charges Against Victim Had Been Stayed Just nine days before Pritpal Singh Virk was gunned down Saturday, a series of drug charges laid against the Richmond teen had been stayed by federal prosecutors, court records show. |
| Feb 1, 2008 |
Understanding the Motivations for Recreational This exploratory qualitative research seeks to better understand both the motives for the use of marijuana by adult Canadians* and their learned "drug experience" expectancies through an examination of their subjective experiences with the drug. This neglected area of research has implications for drug consumption prevention educators and treatment counselors, particularly those who are wary of "statistical reductionism" and sensitive to the clinical value of gaining an understanding of the subjective experiences of those who use and misuse drugs (Feinstein, 1999). |
| Jan 31, 2008 |
Carousel Harvest Appeal The Crown is appealing the right for medical growers to grow cannabis for more than one patient. See: <a href="http://cannabiscoalition.ca/html/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=154" target="_blank">Federal Court strikes down regulation limiting growers of medical marijuana</a> for background. |
| Jan 31, 2008 |
Carousel Harvest Appeal [PDF] The Crown is appealing the ruling that allows medical cannabis growers to grow for more than one patient. For more background, see: <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v08/n039/a09.html" target="_blank">Ottawa Loses Marijuana Fight</a> <a href="http://cannabiscoalition.ca/html/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=12&mode=thread&order=1&thold=0">Federal Court strikes down regulation limiting growers of medical marijuana</a> |