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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Sep 22, 2005	CN ON: Charge Withdrawn Against Local Marijuana Activist Rick Reimer said authorities withdrew a charge of being intoxicated in a public place during a court appearance last week in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.
Sep 19, 2005	CN SN: Pot Laws Protested At Weekend Event A couple of hundred people protested Canada's pot laws by hanging out in a downtown Saskatoon park Saturday afternoon....Saskatoon's event was one of more than 40 protests around the globe. Many of the events overseas were staged at Canadian embassies or consulates.
Sep 16, 2005	CN NT: Pot Party Candidate Charged With Trafficking "It's Really A Badge Of Honour For Us Rather Than A Stigma" Nunavut's Marijuana Party candidate appeared in court this week to face long-standing charges of drug trafficking and money laundering.
Sep 14, 2005	Spokesperson Denied Agent Status Two Pasqua First Nation men charged in connection with a large marijuana grow operation found on the reserve in August were told Tuesday that their spokesperson, who was seeking to represent them legally in court, would not be given agent status.
Sep 11, 2005	Pot Activist Rallies Support Vancouver -- Marc Emery took a quick hit from a joint as his fans smoked and screamed for his freedomin front of the U.S. consulate.... Today, 40 cities around the world, from Warsaw, Moscow, Russia, London, Paris, Madrid, Italy, they are rallying at Canadian consulates around the world. In Melbourne, Australia, and Sydney, Canadian embassies are being picketed!"
Sep 9, 2005	Crohn's Relief Brought Pot Activist To Cause She was suffering with agonizing symptoms and side effects when an old friend recommended marijuana to ease her afflictions. She said it worked and she hasn't used prescription drugs or had surgery since 1996.
Sep 9, 2005	Da Kine Doors Open On Sunday, Business Licence Or Not: Despite his troubles in obtaining a business licence from the City of Abbotsford, marijuana activist Tim Felger says he'll open his downtown Da Kine store on Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
Sep 8, 2005	Judge Scolds Officer For Lying In Court A metro man who admitted in court to being involved in criminal activity will not be prosecuted on a slew of drug and weapons charges because a Halifax Regional Police officer lied on the stand and officers unlawfully searched the man's home. [Every once in awhile, justice prevails still]
Sep 8, 2005	Chong Says He Was Targeted For His Hippie Persona Edmonton-born Tommy Chong rose to fame in the 1970s as one half of the dope-smoking comedy duo Cheech and Chong. In 2003, Chong was charged in the United States with conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia and sentenced to prison, what he now calls an assault on his civil liberties. [The powers-that-be have been trying to systematically rid the world of counter-culture types since the 60's... it is just getting more fierce now. ]
Aug 30, 2005	CN BC: Judge Sets Aside Bail Conditions For The Sake Of Love Flashing a thumbs up from the prisoner's dock to a handful of supporters, Briere was ecstatic at the ruling that will allow him to run for Vancouver city council in November and paves the way for him to see his lover Carol Gwilt, who also faces drug and money-laundering charges for her role at the Commercial Drive cafe.
Aug 26, 2005	Police Didn't Violate Pot Advocate's Rights - Judge A judge yesterday threw out arguments that police violated the constitutional rights of pro-marijuana advocate Marc-Boris St-Maurice when they joined the Bloc Pot party he founded and arrested him at the party's cafe.
Aug 24, 2005	Pot Issue The 'Perfect Storm' The Marc Emery case, in which Canada appears complicit with the United States in bringing to "justice" Vancouver's most prominent potrepreneur, may bring this still-peripheral issue to the front burner of Canadian politics.
Aug 22, 2005	Marijuana Mayhem Ont - Three people face charges after a scuffle with police at Hamilton's marijuana cafe.
Aug 22, 2005	CN ON: Up in Smoke: Pot Users Blaze A Trail Hamilton - City Hall was the scene of a marijuana smoke out over the weekend as 300 users lit up to celebrate Canabian Day.
Aug 13, 2005	Legalize Pot, Focus Sights On Crystal Meth The arguments for legalizing pot to better fight hard drugs are so strong that Ottawa's failure to move in that direction seems to be due to outside pressure. <strong>Either it's organized crime, hoping to keep pot illegal to keep profits flowing, or it's police agencies -- domestic or American -- nervous that their budgets will be slashed if this bogeyman is removed. </strong> [Only police and organized crime support prohibition, yet that seems to be all it takes]
Aug 5, 2005	US WA: <h3>DEA Chief admits politcal persecution in Emery seed case</h3> <strong>US WA: Column: Pursuit of Drug Case All Smoke, No Fire</strong><br> Seeking to stop his extradition to the United States -- where he faces charges of trafficking in marijuana seeds -- Emery's legal team could use Tandy's words to telling effect: Their client is being prosecuted for his beliefs. "Today's arrest of Mark ( sic ) Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement." "Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on." [Targeting citizens for their political views and trying to silence them is against the rules.... but when has that ever mattered? Will the government of Canada do the right thing? Not something we could ever count on.]
Jul 29, 2005	BCMP Headquarters Raided ordered by U.S. - Emery & others arrested Police raided a marijuana seed store run by the B.C. Marijuana Party leader in Vancouver Friday, apparently at the request of U.S. authorities in Seattle. At a news conference in Seattle, U.S. authorities announced they've asked for Emery to be extradited to the U.S. to face drug charges. [ Any illusion that Canada is a sovereign nation is now dead and gone]
Jul 26, 2005	'Football Fields' Of Pot Discovered Police in Northern Ontario have charged a Toronto man after they found marijuana fields stretching "three football fields in length" in what is considered to be one of Canada's largest pot busts.
Jun 11, 2005	How To Cheat On A Urine Test EDMONTON - Keeping a job used to be about minding your Ps and Qs. These days, some people are minding their pee. "We're not talking just typical party people. We're talking mothers, fathers, secretaries, grandparents, everybody."
Jun 5, 2005	CN ON: York Police Target Stores Selling Drug Accessories "Just because certain crimes aren't seen as a threat to public safety, does that mean we should stop enforcing it?" [Through perseverance and diligence, will they ever be able to stomp out cannabis culture?]
Jun 2, 2005	NB: Pregnant Woman Gets A Year For Selling Pot A New Brunswick judge has sentenced a pregnant woman to a year in prison, even though she will have to give birth while in jail in August, and also has three other children at home. [Another blow to reason, logic, justice, enlightenment and humanity in general. <a href="http://lynnwood.ca/" target="_blank">FREE LYNN WOOD</a> - donations toward her legal costs can be made through <a href="http://mumm.ca/donation.htm" target="_blank">MUMM</a>, Please help.]

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