Top Stories (2008) -
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| Jul 15, 2008 |
Put A Lid On It The most recent Ontario studies have found marijuana use is already at a 30-year peak among adults and very close to that mark for teens. Adult use has climbed steadily from a low of eight per cent to a 2005 level of 14 per cent -and more than 38 per cent among the 18-29 age group. Among students in Grades 7 to 12, the number who smoked at least once in the previous year was 25.6 per cent in 2007, up from 9.9 per cent in 1991. |
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| Jul 14, 2008 |
B.C. Grow-Op Tips Have Slowed, RCMP Report Says Mr. Emery identified three factors leading to the recent drop in grow-ops in B.C.: effective police enforcement has increased the risks; a strong Canadian dollar has made exports less profitable; and a downturn in the U.S. economy has led to many Americans trying their hands as suppliers. |
| Jul 14, 2008 |
Pot And Profit The production and sale of marijuana in the area is a large and growing international enterprise, highly sophisticated and generating huge profits for Asian organized crime, a police expert says. Another case against prohibition. |
| Jul 12, 2008 |
Marijuana Becoming Popular Summer Crop Although it's more commonly found growing in the thick forests of B.C., outdoor marijuana grow operations are prevalent throughout Alberta as well. And with the summer season upon us, local RCMP are expecting a lot more will be growing in the prairie fields of southern Alberta than just the usual crops of wheat and canola. |
| Jul 11, 2008 |
Pot-Dealing Guard Gets House Arrest A Hamilton special constable who confessed to dealing a pound or two of marijuana a week will spend the next six months under house arrest. |
| Jul 10, 2008 |
Cannabis Day Picnic Has Highly Charged Agenda There was more than one way to get baked in the sun in Halifax on Canada Day. A telltale sweet smell drifted through the air as more than 200 people gathered on the Dartmouth Common for Halifax's 13th annual Cannabis Day picnic, held every July 1. |
| Jul 9, 2008 |
Report Has Hookah Bar Owners Steaming Allegations of marijuana being sold and smoked at Vancouver hookah bars have one operator in a huff. The allegations come as Vancouver councillors are poised to make a decision about how to enforce the city's indoor-smoking ban. |
| Jul 8, 2008 |
New Drug-Impairement Testing Now In Effect As of July 2, 2008 drivers will have to submit to a Standardized Field Sobriety Test for impairment when demanded by a peace officer who suspects they are driving while impaired by drugs. Bill C-2 empowers Canadian police who suspect a driver of being impaired by any drug, illegal, prescription or over-the-counter, to demand the subject submit to a breathalyzer test, physical coordination tests and an assessment by a Drug Recognition Expert using the Drug Evaluation and Classification ( DEC ) assessment along with a demand of bodily fluid samples ( blood, saliva or urine ). A constitional challenge just waiting to happen... |
| Jul 8, 2008 |
Children Seized After Grow-op Bust Three children are in protective custody after the seizure of hundreds of marijuana plants in a quiet Brooks neighbourhood. The raid on Friday in a home in northwest Brooks led to children ranging in age from two to 11 being placed in provincial care from a home condemned by the Palliser Health Region due to widespread toxic mould. |
| Jul 8, 2008 |
Schools More Vulnerable to Drugs Over the last while, it has been widely accepted by society that a mainstay of the high school system was random drug dog searches. ...Make no mistake, they are in our schools, and they are here to stay because of this ruling. Although it was widely practiced, there is on evidence that it has been widely accepted. Drugs have been in schools for over 35 years... the ruling means nothing. |
| Jul 7, 2008 |
When Police Face Trial Toronto and York police behaved with exemplary professionalism as they swept in on two uniformed officers accused of criminal offences in connection with a marijuana grow-op. ...Yet there remains, by the chief's own admission, one aspect of this case that is likely to erode public confidence in our law enforcement agencies at least as much as the original allegations of criminal wrongdoing: their suspensions from the force will come with full pay. |
| Jul 6, 2008 |
Grow-Op Registry Urged Home buyers offered properties tainted by chemicals and mould from indoor mari juana grow-ops could avoid health problems and financial loss if owners are made to identify them, Ontario's top cop says. |
| Jul 5, 2008 |
Police Officers Get Bail After Grow-Op Bust A City of Vaughan notice taped yesterday on the front door of an alleged former marijuana grow operation deems the suburban house unfit to occupy. ...This municipal order may cause a problem for Toronto Police Constable Kevin Bourne, 33. Police arrested him on Thursday, accusing him of taking part in a marijuana grow-op drug ring. Yesterday a court released him on $50,000 bail and ordered he reside in the Vania Drive house he lived in with his wife, Wendi, and their toddler son. |
| Jul 5, 2008 |
Police Turf War Sank B.C. Hells Angels Investigation Animosity between the RCMP and the Organized Crime Agency of B.C. resulted in the failure of a multi-million-dollar investigation into the Hells Angels, a former lead investigator with the OCABC has alleged in a wrongful dismissal suit. |
| Jul 5, 2008 |
On The Frontlines Of The War Against Drugs Special Report: Oakville Beaver reporter David Lea sheds some light on the secret life of an undercover cop with the Halton Regional police Drug and Morality Bureau. Who is morally qualified to work for a "Morality Bureau"? Why does such a thing exist in this century? |
| Jul 5, 2008 |
Grow Op Accused Had Licence to Grow Marijuana The fire department is calling on the federal government to disclose locations of authorized medical marijuana growers, after a police raid revealed a potentially dangerous grow op. |
| Jul 5, 2008 |
Drug Testing Beneficial For Companies With Dangerous Work Sites From a single phone interview, John Chiasson secured a lucrative job on a Fort McMurray construction project. There was only one catch: The offer was conditional on passing a drug test. Chiasson had smoked marijuana five days before the test. He figured it would have cleared his system. He was wrong. ...Drug testing is justified to accomplish the legitimate goal of a safe workplace free of impairment. Cannabis can be detected for almost 30 days - crack only 24-48 hours... no wonder there is such a crack problem in Fort McMurray. |
| Jul 4, 2008 |
Accused Pair in Grow-Op Free After Judge Compares Them to Photo Mr. Stern also said the Crown had relied entirely on circumstantial evidence. "What the Crown tried to do was say, look at the photos on the wall, and you can conclude the two people in photos are the accused," he said. |
| Jul 4, 2008 |
High on Postal Service According to the lists obtained by Sun Media, packages with illicit items have been destined for big cities and small towns from coast to coast. Shipment sizes range from a few joints or bottles of booze to a large-scale drug haul worth $1 million. But the most common illicit shipments contain marijuana. |
| Jul 2, 2008 |
Rupert Cops Raid Tomato Grow-Op Red-faced drug cops looking for a marijuana grow-op came up with a tomato grow-op instead. Prince Rupert commercial fisherman Bruce Aleksich said yesterday that about 15 Mounties burst into his business last Thursday, only to find 400 tomato plants in various stages of growth. As more people begin to grow their own food, rooting out "grow-ops" will become impossible. |