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| Nov 20, 2008 |
Quantity Of Medical Pot At Home Is Being Looked Into A Port Coquitlam home was broken into Thursday afternoon in an apparent grow rip attempt.... The home is a licensed medicinal marijuana operation but Gresiuk said the regulations are stringent on how many plants can be grown. She said investigators would be checking to make sure those rules had been followed. |
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| Nov 20, 2008 |
Defelice Released From Prison Pending Appeal After being sentenced to one year in prison on October 14, Holy Smoke Culture Shop co-owner Paul DeFelice has been released from Kamloops Regional Correction Centre since October 22, pending an appeal on his conviction. |
| Nov 19, 2008 |
Appeal Date Set For Pot Priests Church of the Universe co-founders Michael Baldasaro and Walter Tucker are hoping the date of their next court appearance is a sign of success. They were told earlier this week the Ontario Court of Appeal will hear the appeals on their marijuana trafficking convictions and sentences next year on April 20. |
| Nov 19, 2008 |
N Van Woman Fights Seizure Of Grow-Op Home North Vancouver woman, a 58-year-old former realtor, has appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada to halt the forfeiture of the North Vancouver house she used as a marijuana growing and selling business, generating "over $100,000 a year" in income according to the B.C. Court of Appeal. Craig is one of three Canadians challenging federal drug laws that have been increasingly used to seize homes containing grow-ops. |
| Nov 19, 2008 |
City Faces Lawsuit Over Safety Inspection Abbotsford's Public Safety Inspection Team, which targets illegal marijuana grow operations, is under fire in the courts again. An Abbotsford couple is suing the City of Abbotsford in B.C. Supreme Court, saying the safety inspection team conducted an illegal search of their home. |
| Nov 17, 2008 |
Pair To Fight Pot Convictions And Bail Terms The hemp-happy founders of the Church of the Universe are scheduled to fight their convictions and bail conditions in the Ontario Court of Appeal today. Rev. Michael Baldasaro and co-founder Rev. Walter Tucker were found guilty last November of multiple counts of trafficking marijuana and sentenced to two years and 12 months respectively. The pair also lost their Barton Street church because it was ruled an "offence-related property." |
| Nov 17, 2008 |
Manitoba Releases National Hemp Strategy The Province of Manitoba has released a national hemp strategy that will seek to identify new opportunities for farmers, processors, researchers and exporters. "Manitoba's farmers and processors are at the leading edge of hemp production," Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Rosann Wowchuk ( said ) recently. |
| Nov 15, 2008 |
Forget Facts, Common Sense Or Decency There's been quite a kerfuffle on the letters page recently on the legalization of marijuana. That we're still even debating this issue, some 70 years after weed's defacto criminalization, is astounding. Every reputable government study, independent study and report out there has stated, unequivocably and for decades, that pot is marginally harmful and shouldn't be a criminal matter. |
| Nov 15, 2008 |
Errors Quash Drugs Case A Quebec Court judge yesterday accused the Crown and police of using abusive tactics and placed a stay of proceedings on drug-trafficking charges against two people in a high-profile investigation. In doing so, Judge Gilles Garneau essentially tossed out the cases against Antal Babos, 42, and Sergio Piccirilli, 48, at the Laval courthouse yesterday. |
| Nov 15, 2008 |
A Bright Green Spot in the Economy With Courts Striking Down the Government's Monopoly on Supplying Medical Marijuana, Private Growers ...Eric Nash can barely contain his excitement waiting to hear from Health Canada whether he can start growing marijuana for 250 patients. |
| Nov 14, 2008 |
Cops Can Drug Test Const. Chris Baillargeon, who recently became a certified Drug Recognition Expert, is qualified to conduct a 12-step drug impairment evaluation that allows him to classify the type of drugs he identifies in an impaired driver....since the legislation was passed, he has conducted two tests in Chatham- Kent, both resulting in charges. He said the cases both involved individuals taking prescription drugs and have not yet appeared in court. [Just how much training is required to become an "expert"? |
| Nov 13, 2008 |
Demand For Hemp Soaring, Firm Moves To Bigger Plant Not only is demand for hemp products skyrocketing -- Canadian hemp seed exports increased by 300 per cent and hemp oil exports by 85 per cent from 2006 to 2007 -- but one of the country's oldest and largest hemp food producers, Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods & Oils, is moving into a new state-of-the-art processing plant this week that will boost its production capacity by 500 per cent. |
| Nov 13, 2008 |
Marijuana In Sport The use of pot by athletes does not need to be monitored any more closely than pot use by anyone else; in sports, there are much bigger drugs to smoke out. |
| Nov 12, 2008 |
Marijuana Activists' Son Shot The son of two of Nova Scotia's best-known marijuana activists was in serious condition in a Halifax hospital Tuesday after an early morning shooting at a home in Lower Sackville. Mike Patriquen, 25, is the son of Michael Patriquen, the founder of the provincial Marijuana party, which is no longer active, and Melanie Stephen. The couple are divorced. |
| Nov 12, 2008 |
Grow-op Home Seizures Challenged Supreme Court Asked If Penalty Too Severe OTTAWA ( CNS ) - Judy Ann Craig, a former realtor with a golden touch for gardening, will try to convince the Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday that being forced to forfeit her North Vancouver home for running a marijuana grow-op is extreme punishment for her crime. |
| Nov 10, 2008 |
Proceeds-Of-Crime-Law Challenge Could Cost Provinces Millions Eight provinces will gang up on a former Carleton University student in the Supreme Court of Canada on Wednesday as it considers whether provincial governments have the constitutional power to seize the proceeds of crime. Lawyers for Robin Chatterjee will argue that crime is a federal responsibility and therefore the Ontario government's 2001 law forcing the forfeiture of everything from houses to cash is outside provincial jurisdiction. |
| Nov 8, 2008 |
PUB LTE: Street Pot Often Crap Pot "The marijuana was originally thought to have been laced with a more noxious substance, but it turns out high levels of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, are to blame." Nonsense and balderdash! |
| Nov 7, 2008 |
Charged Officer Faces Court The trial is scheduled to begin next week for a Peel Regional Police officer arrested in late 2005 over allegations he was attempting to traffic cocaine. Officials with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada ( PPSC ), the federal government organization responsible for prosecutions on behalf of the Attorney General of Canada, indicated that Cst. Sheldon Cook, 39, will appear in a Brampton courtroom Monday. |
| Nov 7, 2008 |
Store Dumps Hemp Stock Once the smoke cleared in the fight between the City and a hemp store, the owner got his licence. A Langley City employee hand delivered a business licence to Hempyz store late Thursday afternoon. Owner Randy Caine said once he and the City came to an agreement that he would not sell hemp products, City staff assisted him in reapplying, and the licence was quickly approved. |
| Nov 6, 2008 |
Drugged Daze In The Don I've Become My Own Worst Nightmare, A Medpot Horror Story NOW writer and med pot activist Matt Mernagh, who suffers from fibromyalgia, scoliosis and arthritic pain, was arrested August 16 with 37 plants and charged with possession of marijuana, possession for the purposes of trafficking and production of marijuana. The trial date has not been set. The following is an account of his 13 days in the Don Jail. |