News - Police (411 items)
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| Jun 1, 2005 |
CN ARTIC:
Police dismantle drug pipeline to the North
ARTIC: Dozens of suspects appeared in court today in connection with the massive dismantling of a criminal ring that trafficked marijuana from Montreal to the Far North. ... Gordon McGregor, the president of the police chief's association of aboriginal communities, said the drug ring has created enormous social problems in the communities affected. "We see high rates of suicide, we see a lot more violence, and we see more lot more situations where weapons are involved," McGregor told reported today. [The northern communities should file a class action suit stating prohibition opens them to greater societal harm, and they need protection against such an unjust law. If there is problems of that magnitude associated with cannabis, than without a supply of non-toxic, less harmful herb , their communities are more susceptible to greater harm and violence from <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v00/n1718/a04.html"> gasoline sniffing</a>, alcohol, and eventually crystal meth, which is easier to smuggle. |
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| May 29, 2005 |
CN ON:
Averse To Pot Laws, Poet Objects In Rhyme
A poetic pot activist rhymed out his reasons for battling Canada's marijuana laws at a rally yesterday ... "There's a little poem I've got, that makes a case for pot. Though a poet I am not, I've given this much thought. Is there hard data? A lot. What's pot's greatest danger? Getting caught," |
| May 27, 2005 |
CN BC:
Marijuana Party Candidate Claims Company Fired Him
The Marijuana party's Shuswap candidate believes he lost his job because of his election attempt. "It's all fun and games until somebody loses a job," |
| May 27, 2005 |
CN BC:
Hippie Capital Tunes In
The Counter-Culture '60s Come Alive In A New Vancouver Museum Display ... The coffee table contains the essentials of the day: a hookah pipe and a stash basket. |
| May 24, 2005 |
Mary Jane And Me
TV shows where people are smoking marijuana are entertaining for some, but offending to those who say they promote drug use. ..."[The shows are] just reflecting a consensus reality that has emerged over the last 40 or 50 years in North America, that says the use of marijuana is not a serious problem and the worst thing about marijuana are the laws against it," he said. |
| May 24, 2005 |
Skier Tokes Prior To Hitting Slopes
While most students in the cafeteria are studying for final exams, James Hillier is figuring out his travel budget for an upcoming skiing competition in the USA. This Langara student specializes in half pipe and skis slope style but Hillier almost always competes under the influence of marijuana. |
| May 17, 2005 |
Police Must Reinstate Drug-Addicted Officer
A drug-addicted Toronto police officer is being allowed to keep his job. Mr. Kelly, an undercover drug squad officer with an otherwise perfect record, was fired last fall after becoming addicted to cocaine. [If only all coke addicts were so lucky] |
| May 12, 2005 |
Who's Your Puff Mama?
Puff Mama's sunday-night ganja and grub revue headlined by Global Marijuana March MC Watermelon would have impressed Jay Gatsby himself. A warm-hearted med-cannabis baker, Puff Mama - who refuses to use her other name - throws grass-infused, in-the-know fundraisers featuring her delectable edibles and Wayward Comedy Show. |
| May 12, 2005 |
Crown Right Not To Charge Cops Who Tasered Teen: Prof
Fryingpan was 16 years old and passed out drunk in the back of a car in the parking lot of a north-end townhouse project on Oct. 5, 2002 when police were called. The teen was shocked six times in 66 seconds by Const. Mike Wasylyshen, the son of then-chief Bob Wasylyshen. [To serve and protect... the police are our friends...] |
| May 11, 2005 |
Abduction Linked To Pot Smuggling
Police believe the May 2 kidnapping is related to shipping of marijuana to the U.S., said Abbotsford police Const. Shinder Kirk "We have seen over the past several years that the drug trade is extremely lucrative, that organized groups, or even unorganized groups, will do anything to protect their trade from competitors," Kirk said. "And marijuana is no exception." [They forget to mention how prohibition-related crime like this could be avoided...] |
| May 10, 2005 |
Crusaders Promote Pot With Flagpole Prank
Spirits were flying high in the downtown civic square on the weekend, when someone hoisted a mock Canadian flag with a cannabis leaf up a City Hall flagpole. [The cannabis leaf flag is as common as the real flag...so it's surprising anyone noticed the change] |
| May 10, 2005 |
Police Sweep Of Carter High School Yields No Evidence Of Illegal Drugs
Leamington police came up empty-handed after their third drug sweep this year at Cardinal Carter Secondary School. Leamington officers, assisted by the OPP and its canine unit searched the school Friday, but found no illegal drugs. [So we can all agree this is more about accustomizing kids to terrorizing authority than drugs?] |
| May 9, 2005 |
CN SN:
Marijuana Activists Join Global Protest
SASKATCHEWAN - Marijuana Activists From Saskatoon Joined A Global Protest Saturday. About a dozen people marched from Broadway Avenue to city hall Saturday afternoon to raise awareness of what organizers call state-sponsored discrimination. [Lifting the bonds of oppression has never been an easy task for any group, but perserverence has it's rewards eventually...] |
| May 8, 2005 |
Downtown Pot Rally Brings Whiff Of The '60s
Close to 3,000 people celebrated cannabis culture as part of the sixth "Global Million Marijuana March," marked in more than 200 cities worldwide. "We want to see it legalized and decriminalized," said organizer Franklin Skanks. He believes legalizing pot would bring in more revenue via "sin taxes," boost tourism and help shut down organized marijuana grow-ops. |
| May 8, 2005 |
Grow-Op Bust Ends In Death
A 45-YEAR-OLD woman, apparently trying to elude police, plunged 15 storeys to her death at an apartm [or..Prohibition claims another life...] |
| May 7, 2005 |
With A Bong In His Heart
Dominic Cramer is running late. But when you preside over a growing retail empire rooted in marijuana, being time-challenged comes with the turf. Make no mistake, though, Cramer is no ordinary pothead. |
| May 5, 2005 |
The Longley And Winding Road
Who is Blair Longley? "I am like a grandfather of the Marijuana Party. I was the first person back in Vancouver in 1987 to get away with publicly cultivating pot and be let off, acquitted, even though I was clearly doing it. There was absolutely no doubt about it, but I was let go. The whole story is very amusing." |
| May 5, 2005 |
CN AB:
Global March Supports Effort To Legalize Marijuana
Marijuana has been garnering a lot of negative media attention in Calgary recently due to the burgeoning numbers of grow-ops police are busting and concern over organized crime involvement in the industry....But a group of Calgary pot users will be trying to send out a different message on May 7. They'll be participating in Global Marijuana March, a worldwide protest to legalize pot, which first began in New York City in 1996 and has since spread to 37 countries and 181 cities. |
| May 4, 2005 |
Pot Bust Tactic Challenged
Police busted Marc-Boris St-Maurice for pot possession last year after taking out memberships in the pro-marijuana political party he founded and infiltrating its clubhouse, Cafe Marijane. [...making the streets safer...it would be funny if it weren't so pathetic what the cops won't do...] |
| May 4, 2005 |
Cop Gets Eight-year Sentence
A Superior court judge has sentenced a veteran Peel Regional Police officer to eight years in prison after the 60-year-old admitted to stealing nearly $3 million worth of cocaine and hash from a police storage facility just months before he was to retire. |
| May 4, 2005 |
Police Board Suggesting Cameras To Curb Crime
In an effort to put a stop to criminal and anti-social behaviour after-hours on Scott Street, the Police Services Board wants the town to install a surveillance system in the downtown area. [Big Brother has eyes everywhere..] |
| Apr 25, 2005 |
Gone To Pot
More than 500 people gathered there -- at the seat of government and lawful authority in Manitoba -- to listen to music, play a bit of Frisbee, giggle perhaps more than usual and get high on dope. ... And yet the police did nothing except mark time. Enforcement of the Criminal Code should not be arbitrary. Arbitrary enforcement brings the justice system into disrepute...The law should be made to reflect the current reality. It was not illegal on Wednesday. It cannot be illegal today and should not be illegal tomorrow. |
| Apr 24, 2005 |
For Pot Smokers, It's Always 4:20
A private security staffer drove his car across the grounds, in an apparent attempt at intimidation. It didn't work. "What's all the fuss," asked one MLA of the crowd. 4:20. "Well, better than nine-eleven," he said. [Well said] |
| Apr 22, 2005 |
Scuffle At Pro-marijuana Rally Results In Charges
An RCMP officer escaped injury during a scuffle with a man arrested at a pro-marijuana rally outside Red Deer's city hall, say police. |
| Apr 21, 2005 |
Pot Users Light Up Outside Legislature
MORE than 500 pot smokers spent yesterday afternoon smoking joints and lounging on the Legislative Building grounds as part of an annual call for the legalization of marijuana. |