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| Jan 4, 2006 |
Raid Charge Stayed
Mandeep Sandhu, a former executive member of the Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca federal Liberal riding association, was charged with conspiracy to traffic in marijuana in Sept. 2004. His laywer, Richard Peck, confirmed those charges were stayed on or about Nov. 7. Sandhu's cousin, Victoria police Constable Ravinder Singh ( Rob ) Dosanjh, was also charged last Dec. 2004 with obstruction of justice for allegedly counselling Sandhu "make false statements to law-enforcement officials" about the origin of money seized during a police search of his residence. A hearing for three other men charged in connection with the raid is scheduled for Friday in Vancouver. It pays to be a Liberal - provincial, federal... doesn't matter... you're covered, and the media is there to help in any way. |
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| Dec 26, 2005 |
Sovereign In Name Only
Here's the issue: If there is evidence of his guilt, Emery should have been charged here. If Canadian authorities have no evidence, they've no reason to co-operate with the U.S. ( Parenthetically, when U.S. warships visit Esquimalt, B.C., the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service routinely works sting operations in Victoria to discourage their sailors from buying drugs there -- meaning U.S. law-enforcement agents are operational on Canadian soil. Conscious of sensitivities, the Victoria police did make arrests. ) |
| Dec 17, 2005 |
Variety Of Methods Help Users Get High
Some local marijuana users are connoisseurs it seems, according to a new demand for pot-related devices. |
| Dec 15, 2005 |
This Man Loves Herb More Than You
Edmonton-reared David Malmo-Levine was our keynote pot activist in the '90s, writing for The Gateway, organizing wild rallies and handing me lit joints on television as police stood at the edge of Gazebo Park, staring. |
| Dec 7, 2005 |
Judge May Ban Police
A judge vowed yesterday to limit the number of off-duty Winnipeg police officers who have flooded a misconduct hearing and literally surrounded three men who claim they were assaulted by police. A frightening look at police mentality... |
| Nov 29, 2005 |
Botched Raid Battle Expected To End
A Calgary woman's five-year fight against several police officers who bungled a drug raid at her rented southwest home is expected to come to an end today. |
| Nov 24, 2005 |
Why Blacks Won't Talk To Police
I asked for a show of hands of how many had been stopped by police for no apparent reason. Seventeen of the 19 males raised their hands. [Remember the mantra... the police are our friends.. we pay them to serve and protect us...] |
| Nov 23, 2005 |
Cops Cope With Growing Problem
Five years ago, 95 per cent of Ontario Provincial Police drug enforcement was proactive work. Now, it's 95 per cent reactive, and more than half of the workload centres around marijuana, Det. Insp. Frank Elbers said at OPP headquarters yesterday. [Duh, so what's the logical answer?] |
| Nov 20, 2005 |
Pot and Your Pooch
Dogs have been getting high on B.C. Bud for years, according to several local veterinarians who have treated pets who have ingested marijuana.However, there have been no cannabis-related deaths, says Brocklehouse. "They'd have to eat a helluva lot," says Shaw, speculating on what it would take before a canine OD-ed on marijuana, but that could change with any reconfiguration of street cannabis. |
| Nov 12, 2005 |
Activist Accused Of Trying To Hijack Forum
A pot activist who used a crowded rural forum to confront police Chief Brian Mullan says he'll keep speaking out at future meetings, despite being blasted by an irate city councillor. Councillor Margaret McCarthy says she had to tell two men to "sit down and shut up" because they tried to "hijack" the meeting this week in the old Flamborough town hall. [They just can't handle the truth...] |
| Nov 12, 2005 |
Meet The Marijuana User Next Door
Surprise: The Rank And File Of Canada's Multi-Billion-Dollar Pot Industry Look A lot Like You And Me Ever wondered how your neighbours managed to afford that Land Rover or the cash to cover their kids' private school tuition? Maybe they have a sideline: a secret, subterranean income booster in the form of a marijuana grow operation. To some that might sound scandalous, while others might wonder why they hadn't thought of it themselves. |
| Nov 10, 2005 |
Police Rules Weren't Followed, Inquest Told
The night Heather Benson died in RCMP custody, some regulations were not followed, a coroner's inquest heard Tuesday. Benson died while being transported by the RCMP from Tagish to Whitehorse, when the police cruiser rolled off the road and into the ditch. She was thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene of the accident as a result of chest wounds, on Sept. 27, 2003. Const. Jeff Monkman, who was driving the car, was convicted of careless driving in a trial held last February and fined $1,000. [This sums up everything that is wrong with the system as we know it] |
| Nov 8, 2005 |
LTE: Why Not Legalize Theft, Burglary, Rape?
If legalizing is equal to less crimes and less court times, then why not legalize theft, burglary, rape? Our courts would havea less burden and judges can go on longer holidays. We can cut the police force in half and save money. [This so-called logic defies normal intelligence... in the school of life 101, most of us can differentiate between something we do to ourselves versus something done to us by others... BIG DIFFERENCE] |
| Nov 2, 2005 |
Mountie Charged With Assault After Lillooet Home Raided
[ A Lillooet Mountie has been charged with four counts of assault with a weapon.It is alleged a police officer used excessive force by Tasering a 19-year-old woman in her back as she lay on the ground face down during a drug raid Feb. 5. The woman's dog was also allegedly Tasered during the raid. Police said they found trace amounts of cocaine on a scale, plus four ecstasy pills in a coat and a bag of marijuana in the woman's home. [ DO YOU AGREE WITH THE WAY YOUR MONEY PAYS THE SALARY OF PEOPLE HIRED TO "SERVE AND PROTECT" US? WHO PROTECTS US FROM THEM? ] |
| Nov 1, 2005 |
Toking Diplomacy
If you were the guy everyone called the prince of pot and the U.S. drug czar came to town rattling his saber, you'd probably have the sense to stay out of his way. At the very least, you wouldn't go out of your way to antagonize him, let alone pay $500 for the privilege. |
| Nov 1, 2005 |
Felger In Street Scuffle
Tim Felger is running in Abbotsford for council and for mayor in Mission. His call to legalize marijuana and for harm reduction are emblazoned on his windows. Randall Severson admits he kicked the counter in Felger's office. "That was a bad move on my part. I was frustrated. The signs and the messages really bother me. He promotes violence and hatred and sexual immorality," said Severson. [Seems he uses the same leap in logic that the cops/government do...] |
| Nov 1, 2005 |
Randall Severson admits he kicked the counter in Felger's office.
A surprise police sweep at Cardinal Carter secondary school in Leamington resulted in one student being caught with drug paraphernalia and trace amounts of cannabis. [Consider the time, cost, resources, and more importantly the right to terrorize hundreds of students to send a "message", especially since no drugs were found. Kids are getting the message all right, but not the one intended... the message they get is they have no rights, no privacy and adults are authoritation #%*^@'s ] |
| Oct 31, 2005 |
Civic Election Gone To Pot
The alleged pot supplier to the Da Kine Smoke and Beverage Shop on Commercial Drive, which sold marijuana over the counter, is one of 36 candidates battling for 10 seats on city council in the November civic election. [The headline gets an F for being so typically cliche. Give us a break.] |
| Oct 27, 2005 |
This Bud's For All Of Us
Bud Inc., by Ian Mulgrew ( Random House Canada, 304 pages, $35 ) After a week in Vancouver I realized that Mulgrew's new book will open the eyes of quite a few people when it comes out next month. Prohibition has failed. The police and courts are overwhelmed. The cultivators are laughing all the way to an offshore account. The only hope is that Uncle Paul and some of his colleagues will come to the glaringly obvious conclusion that Ian Mulgrew spells out again and again. Legalize it. |
| Oct 24, 2005 |
Harmless? Never!
More than 2,000 Canadians go to jail annually for simple possession of marijuana and some segments of society believe this is a useless waste of public funds and police resources....The drug has become more potent and dangerous than it was a generation ago. It is damaging. [Good ol' Texas North...dissing a herb that has no fatalities in it's thousands of years of use...] |
| Oct 22, 2005 |
Beating the Drug Police
Just three months after selling his first bag of fake pee from Herbal Essentials, store owner Kelly Hermansen is moving between 35 and 50 units a week of it, along with other drug-masking products. Although most customers are marijuana smokers, a drug that can stay in the system up to a month, other shoppers are meth and cocaine users, Hermansen says. [Cat & mouse, cops & robbers, the war on some substances goes on and on and on] |
| Oct 7, 2005 |
Officer To Stand Trial On Drug Charges
A police officer facing numerous charges spanning several years and jurisdictions will stand trial on local charges next week, a judge has ruled, despite a bid from the crown for more time to scrutinize new information brought forth by the defence. Ned Maodus, 41, a former resident of Mono, is a senior drug investigator with Metro Toronto Police who, along with five other officers, faces drug related charges and allegations of wrongdoing. |
| Sep 24, 2005 |
CN BC:
Smith Beats Marijuana Cookie Rap
Ted Smith, Victoria's high-profile champion of medical marijuana, has beaten a trafficking charge on appeal....On Thursday, Smith received a letter from the federal Department of Justice saying it had reviewed his appeal and decided he should be granted a new trial. The Crown, however, has determined it will not proceed and will ask the Court of Appeal to enter an acquittal. [There is something very wrong with society when baking cookies for ill people can land you in jail] |
| Sep 22, 2005 |
CN ON:
Charge Withdrawn Against Local Marijuana Activist
Rick Reimer said authorities withdrew a charge of being intoxicated in a public place during a court appearance last week in Annapolis Royal, N.S. Mr. Reimer, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, has a medical exemption from Health Canada to use marijuana to alleviate the symptoms of his disease. He was smoking a marijuana cigarette when he asked an RCMP officer to check in with security when entering the festival grounds. |
| Sep 19, 2005 |
Police Losing Battle Over Pot, Says Prof
Police are losing the war against pot and it's time to make it legal and regulate the cultivation and use of it, says Eugene Oscapella, an Ottawa University criminology teacher who co-founded the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy. |