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| Jan 1, 2008 |
Pot Users Slammed In Ruling Alberta's top court has dealt a blow to the province's pot smokers with a ruling upholding workplace drug-testing policies that were at risk. In a new decision from the Alberta Court of Appeal, a trio of judges overturned a controversial ruling from Justice Sheilah Martin that drew scorn from 2006 Tory leadership candidate Ted Morton. In that case, Martin ruled that a Fort McMurray employer discriminated against a worker named John Chiasson by firing him over a positive drug-test result. |
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| Jan 1, 2008 |
PUB LTE: Medical Marijuana Grow-ops Okay For Kids Re: "Are the kids all right?" News, Dec. 21, 2007. You editorial asks "What kind of a parent would subject toddlers to the dangers of living in a marijuana grow operation?" Why, a parent who has a chronic medical condition and has a licence from Health Canada to set up a so-called "grow-op." Health Canada licenses these so-called "grow-ops" for critically and chronically ill Canadians from coast to coast to coast, and their regulations say nothing about children. When set up properly, home indoor gardens are just as safe as hot tubs. Indoor growing, done properly, is perfectly safe, but a well-crafted propaganda campaign on behalf of anti-marijuana groups ( basically just the police, those experts on medical issues ) seems to have infiltrated the national conversation and the media. <br /><br /> TIM MEEHAN |
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Maccan Man's Latest Marijuana Plea On Hold Ricky Simpson, 58, was to have entered a plea Monday to a charge of trafficking not more than three kilograms of cannabis resin. But the hearing in Amherst provincial court was cut short when Truro lawyer Linda Hupman told Judge Carole Beaton that the Crown and defence lawyers handling the case were not in attendance and were asking for a postponement until Feb. 28. | |
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This Soccer Mom Admits She Was Out of Her League at a Marijuana Smokefest Ah, yes, plunk a soccer mom in the midst of a muddy marijuana smokefest and behold her confusion. How many different shaped bongs can there possibly be? Who knew you could smoke a doobie the size of an Arnold Schwarzenegger cigar? And why is that guy inhaling his grass through a gas mask? | |
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The Growing Use Of Medical Marijuana Although fewer than 3,000 Canadians are licensed to use medical marijuana, it's estimated that between 400,000 and one million people in the country use cannabis as medication. The following is the first article in a series about the use of marijuana to treat medical conditions. | |
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Pot Activist Loses Bid To Have Charges Stayed CALGARY ( CNS ) -A medical marijuana activist has lost his bid to have drug-trafficking charges against him stayed in Alberta -- his second judicial setback in less than a week. Grant Krieger was looking for a constitutional exemption on Wednesday from his marijuana trafficking conviction, arguing his actions were protected under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Alberta Court of Appeal rejected Mr. Krieger's bid. |