Top Stories (2008) -
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| Jun 28, 2008 |
Fatties For All There is enough serious crime out there for our already under-funded police force to tackle. Abuse of dangerous drugs like OxyContin comes to mind. Violence against women is a huge issue which remains largely unaddressed. Some corporate crime in this city doesn't even get investigated. I don't think police should be wasting their time chasing around after two-bit grow-ops and small-time smugglers. ( Granted, Pearce seems to have been called up to the majors. ) We, the dope smokers of Newfoundland and Labrador, should be given some recognition and some respect. |
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| Jun 28, 2008 |
Bar Owner Fears His Business Could Go to Pot After Human Rights Ruling TORONTO - A sports bar owner said he risks breaking the law and could lose his licence if he signs an agreement to settle a complaint at the Ontario Human Rights Commission to allow a patron to smoke medical marijuana outside the bar's front door. |
| Jun 27, 2008 |
Witness Denies Trucker Smoked Pot Before Heading Out on Run to Toronto The ex-common-law partner of a Quebec transport driver denied he smoked marijuana prior to an accident that killed one person and seriously injured another. |
| Jun 26, 2008 |
Not Your Average Joe You won't see Joe Adams carrying marijuana plants out of a busted grow house along with police. He doesn't fight fires that erupt from the crazily wired buildings, either. But the Garden City man has helped shut down a dozen big marijuana growing operations across Niagara - and likely helped save the lives of firefighters and police officers |
| Jun 25, 2008 |
Search Warrants Challenged A local lawyer has finished his arguments in a case that could change the way search warrants are handled across British Columbia and invalidate thousands of search warrants issued in the past six years, calling the police investigations and subsequent court cases into question |
| Jun 25, 2008 |
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Growers Breeding New Hemp HEMP growers in the Dauphin region are going back to some of the original hemp breeds in the area from the 18th century to come up with new varieties. |
| Jun 24, 2008 |
Medical Pot User Faces Charges A LOCAL man faces two marijuana charges for seizures made before he obtained a federal licence allowing him to grow and possess the drug. |
| Jun 24, 2008 |
Crown Alleges Truck Driver Impaired By Marijuana In Fatal Crash Driving a vehicle while stoned on marijuana is as criminal and dangerous as driving while impaired by alcohol. That's what the Crown hopes to prove in a case against a Montreal truck driver who's accused of killing one person and seriously injuring another in an accident on Highway 401 four years ago while allegedly high on pot. |
| Jun 20, 2008 |
Man Sues To Get Bill Over Pot Grow-op Returned A landlord billed almost $13,000 by the District of Mission to clean up a rental property used for a marijuana grow-op is suing the district to get the money back. |
| Jun 20, 2008 |
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Thermal Camera Improves Police Plane's Eyesight The Saskatoon Police Service's eye in the sky is about to become sharper with the addition of a thermal imaging camera to the police plane. It allows police officers to spot a suspect running at night through backyards or a hidden grow operation. |
| Jun 19, 2008 |
Pot Grow Ops Keeping Police, Fire Busy With up to 250 marijuana grow ops in Ottawa at any given time, Gauthier said his team could be making multiple busts each day, but they have to concentrate on the most important cases. It seems grow operators are becoming more cunning each year. |
| Jun 19, 2008 |
Legit Grower Takes Helm At Pot Club The Mid-Island Compassion Society continues its slow growth under new management, and the risk of criminal charges have been reduced since a licensed medicinal marijuana user took over for founder James Younger three weeks ago. |
| Jun 19, 2008 |
$40 Pot Charge Has Law in Turmoil Clifford Long's constitutional saga began in September 2005 when he was a passenger in a car stopped by police for a seatbelt infraction. |
| Jun 17, 2008 |
Use of Marijuana for Medical Reasons Has Its Downers Researchers analysed 31 studies from around the world conducted over the past 40 years and found that while nearly 97 per cent of adverse events were not serious or life-threatening, medicinal marijuana users still have an 86-per-cent increase in the rate of non-serious adverse effects, such as drowsiness and dizziness, compared to non-users. |
| Jun 17, 2008 |
Judge Reluctantly Hands Out Suspended Sentence While clearly not happy with the joint sentence submission made by the Crown and defense laywers, Grand Falls provincial court Judge Jacques Desjardins did however grant the request for an 18-month suspended sentence to be served in the community for 26-year-old Berthony Julien of Montreal on Tuesday, June 3. Julien had pleaded guilty during an earlier court appearance to possession of cannabis marijuana for the purpose of trafficking on March 9, 2007 near Woodstock. |
| Jun 16, 2008 |
Police Get New Powers To Nab Drivers On Drugs Marijuana, crack cocaine or too much pain medication? It's been tough for police to tell what a person is high on, especially when they're behind the wheel -- but that's about to change. Police forces across the province are gearing up for July 2 when a new federal law takes effect that gives them additional powers to boot drug-impaired drivers off the road. |
| Jun 14, 2008 |
Parasiris 'Relieved' Upon Learning His Fate Parasiris and his wife both testified they had no idea it was the police who had broken into their home. Both said they didn't hear officers shout "Police!" until after Tessier had been shot. <a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=34eba880-bfd3-437e-bcd7-a047e3a6474e" target="_blank">As one writer put it: "If you can't trust armed masked raiders who burst into your home in the middle of the night, who can you trust?"</a> |
| Jun 12, 2008 |
BC's Heavy Rain Threatens $1-Billion In Marijuana British Columbia's marijuana industry is poised to lose $1-billion this year if the constant rainy weather battering the region doesn't stop, activist Marc Emery said yesterday. |
| Jun 10, 2008 |
Health Canada Taking Bids On Pot Contract The federal department is inviting firms from across the country to submit bids on a contract to cultivate and distribute medical marijuana for the next seven years, with options for two one-year extensions. |
| Jun 6, 2008 |
Judge Throws Major Drug Bust Case Out Of Court A major Winnipeg drug bust has been thrown out of court after a judge found police had no right to conduct a gunpoint takedown of a suspected dealer. The 2004 arrest -- in which a large quantity of marijuana and meth was found inside a vehicle in St. Vital -- was deemed an excessive show of force by police and a "serious" breach of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. |