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| Sep 15, 2008 |
Police Use Spin To Help Battle Grow Ops Nelson lawyer, Don Skogstad handles a lot of criminal cases involving marijuana growing operations and says recent police reports of seizing houses and organized crime connections in relation ( to ) marijuana cultivation are simply part of a media spin campaign by the RCMP. |
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| Sep 12, 2008 |
Medical Marijuana Users Face Continued Uncertainty Part III of a four-part series on the medical use of 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 Third In A Series Of Articles About The Use Of Marijuana To Treat Medical Conditions. |
| Sep 12, 2008 |
Felger Calls in Drug Agent Leading up to, and after, the federal election, Abbotsford marijuana activist Tim Felger has invited retired drug agent and acclaimed public speaker and educator Celerino "Cele" Castillo to speak about the nation's war on drugs. |
| Sep 11, 2008 |
Man Claims Seized Substance Is Catnip A marijuana activist who was allegedly busted with a pound of pot claims police have no proof that what they seized is not catnip -- and he intends to try to prove it in court. |
| Sep 10, 2008 |
Pot Plantations Aired Out Vancouver Island Police Officers have wrapped up a six-day air and land operation, which resulted in the eradication of over 23,000 marijuana plants from across Vancouver Island. In total, officers visited 222 sites where marijuana was being illegally cultivated on Crown Lands. [Consumers can't afford gas, but thier tax money can fund helicopter excursions] |
| Sep 9, 2008 |
Driver Found Not Guilty Of Marijuana Possession A man caught with marijuana during a traffic stop in Pitt Meadows was acquitted of a drug possession charge Friday after a provincial court judge questioned the legality of the police search. |
| Sep 9, 2008 |
District Orders Bong Store Shut During its brief existence the store had posters with marijuana leaves on its front windows. Key chains that said "legalize" on top of marijuana leaves were on sale. Mayor Gord Robson told council at the Monday council meeting that he had received "a number" of complaints about the store's existence. |
| Sep 5, 2008 |
Federal Election Could Be Going To Pot Legalizing The Use Of Marijuana Will Be An Election Issue If Proponents Across Canada Listen To Neil Magnuson. .... In Lethbridge as part of the "2008 Freedom Tour" on Thursday, the long-time activist said three of the four national parties have spoken out in favour of decriminalizing the recreational drug. |
| Sep 4, 2008 |
Relight Those Nice Dreams <strong>Cheech & Chong Reprise Their Hit '70s Comedy Act In Ottawa</strong> Nearly 25 years after their breakup, the wildly popular comedy team of the 1970s is back to "Light Up Canada." And, after that, they're going to blaze up America too. "Our performance in Ottawa is actually going to be the first time that we've done Born in East L.A. together," says Cheech, calling from Hawaii, of the comedy team's hit parody of a Bruce Springsteen original. "Condoleezza Rice called us and said, 'You know, I'm having no luck with the Palestinians and the Israelites and I need to get somebody together before my reign is out here.' Ottawa - you're the first guys." |
| Sep 3, 2008 |
Question Numbers Crime is down across B.C. ...n addition, drug statistics are not included in the crime numbers as they are compiled separately, a practice that doesn't seem to make sense as an overwhelming number of police man hours are used to wage the war on drugs. If police officers across B.C. are spending voluminous hours cracking down on marijuana grow-operations, crack shacks and heroin shipments, should that data not also factor into the crime-rate numbers? |
| Sep 3, 2008 |
'Say No' To Canine Cannabis - Vet Keep your dogs away from pot. That's the message to all pet owners from an emergency veterinarian..... Symptoms of an affected dog include sleepiness, extreme sensitivity to light and motion, low heart rate, low blood pressure and the dog urinating on itself, or dribbling urine. |
| Sep 3, 2008 |
Growing Flowers, You Say? A Likely Story Likely residents were divided on whether the police raids had made their community a better place to live. Likely Chamber of Commerce spokesman Robin Hood said yesterday the grow ops fed an underground economy and boosted property values in a town hit hard by a slowdown in logging and mining. "It did not bother me," he said in an interview. .... But High Country Inn owner Darlene Biggs, who has three of her eight grandchildren living in the village, said she was pleased to see the grow ops closed down. "A lot of us have been complaining for a while and calling the police," she said. |
| Sep 3, 2008 |
BC:
Houston Cops Accused of Brutality After pulling the man over, several other RCMP patrol cars arrived on scene and an unidentified Houston RCMP officer allegedly began conducting a field sobriety test on the assertion of smelling alcohol and marijuana. ...Inside the Houston detachment, it is alleged the man was attacked again by an undisclosed number of officers as he was escorted to a cell. |
| Sep 2, 2008 |
PUB LTE: Marijuana Laws Have No Validity Re: "<a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v08/n782/a07.html " target="_blank">Technical breech</a>" of pot law not worth prosecuting: Crown "There is nothing constitutionally wrong with the CDSA," Conlan said. Basically, Conlan is admitting that the only thing keeping marijuana prohibition alive is a legal technicality, and not any real validity in the law itself. "It is still valid because the government says it is valid" is not acceptable. Like a parent saying "Because I said so!" when a child asks "why". |
| Aug 29, 2008 |
Cannabis Crusader Calls On Whitehorse But the marijuana activist didn't bring any weed to the Yukon. "Typically I let the locals smoke me up," said the 50-year-old leader of BC's Marijuana Party. "That way, I can experience what you're smoking here." It's Emery's first time championing cannabis in the territory. .....And Whitehorse RCMP is worried. |
| Aug 28, 2008 |
Stoning Of A Crusader NOW readers know Matt Mernagh as that indomitable spirit behind the megaphone at medpot rallies in Yonge-Dundas Square. Bright lights, big city. That's Mernagh. .....On Saturday August 16, Mernagh was arrested, along with a roommate, and charged with possession of marijuana, possession for the purposes of trafficking and production of marijuana. |
| Aug 27, 2008 |
Alberta's Reefer Madness Hitting New Highs s Albertans go, they outnumber Catholics, smokers, Edmontonians, voters and overweight folk -- though a massive intake of potato chips might soon balance out the latter. They're pot smokers, and a new study by Health Canada shows a staggering -- and presumably peckish -- 45.3% of Albertans have inhaled marijuana, with 34.7% returning for a regular hit of weed. |
| Aug 27, 2008 |
B.C.'s Crime Rate Hits 30-Year Low The reported crime rate in B.C. is at a 30-year low, according to statistics released Tuesday by the provincial government. ...By comparison, B.C.'s drug crime rates -- which have consistently been the highest in Canada since the 1980s -- increased in 2007, due largely to a spike in possession of cannabis offences. |
| Aug 27, 2008 |
Alberta's Reefer Madness Hitting New Highs As Albertans go, they outnumber Catholics, smokers, Edmontonians, voters and overweight folk -- though a massive intake of potato chips might soon balance out the latter. They're pot smokers, and a new study by Health Canada shows a staggering -- and presumably peckish -- 45.3% of Albertans have inhaled marijuana, with 34.7% returning for a regular hit of weed |
| Aug 25, 2008 |
Toronto Lawyer Acquitted Of Drug Charges Veteran defence lawyer Edmund Schofield is free of drug trafficking charges after a federal prosecutor chose not to present evidence at the 74-year-old former FBI agent's trial. |