News - Police (411 items)
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| Apr 21, 2005 |
Victoria's Top Toker Can't Join Smoke-In
Pot aroma wafts over City Hall in sixth annual joint jubilee Victoria's best-known pot advocate was one of the few who didn't light up Thursday afternoon outside City Hall. It's not that Ted Smith didn't want to join revelers in the annual marijuana 4/20 celebrations -- it's just that a few police officers were keeping an eye on Centennial Square, and Smith is already facing drug charges. |
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| Apr 20, 2005 |
Police Beating 'Shamed' Officer
After being yelled at by Const. Raymond Gardner, who told Desjardins the police weren't about to lose control of Granville Street to drug dealers and that the people there were tired of their activities and the area being unsafe, Peters said Desjardins received "a flurry" of short, punches from the five officers. He fell to the ground and "turtled up" in an effort to protect himself with his arms covering his head, and knees drawn up to his chest. The officers then began to deliver short kicks to his body, with Kojima moving his head from side to side with the inside of his boot much like a "small child trying to control a soccer ball." [To serve and protect. eh?] |
| Apr 19, 2005 |
Smokin' Up The Joint
Tomorrow is World Marijuana Day. You won't find it on the calendar. Actually, you won't find it anywhere but on the Internet. |
| Apr 18, 2005 |
New Drug Dogs Join Police Force
The Medicine Hat police have added a couple new members to their force -- two seven-week-old chocolate Labrador dogs that will eventually aid in keeping drugs out of schools. [Not only is are the police not our "friends" anymore, they are making sure that even dogs can no longer be considered "man's best friend" when they are used for this purpose...] |
| Apr 16, 2005 |
Up In Smoke
A Sick Guelph Man Fears The Future After Police Confiscate His Crop Of What He Argues Is Legal Marijuana, Prescribed To Ease His Many Ailments. |
| Apr 8, 2005 |
Marijuana-joint Sharing Linked To Spread Of Potentially
The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is warning people not to share marijuana joints because the practice is resulting in the spread of meningococcal disease, which is potentially fatal. |
| Apr 7, 2005 |
And Marijuana For All
By Alan Young. I am becoming embarrassed by the endless pot debate in Canada. Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan recently stated that marijuana smokers are stupid ( Was this her way of saying she smokes the herb? ), but the true imbecility lies in the irresolute and confused response of our governemt to a no-brainer issue of public policy. |
| Apr 6, 2005 |
Reefer Refugees
No American Has Ever Been Granted Canadian Refugee Status Because of the War on Drugs, but the Times They May Be Changing. |
| Apr 2, 2005 |
It's Time For Intelligent Responses To Marijuana
It is difficult to imagine a less intelligent strategy for responding to drugs than the laws that are currently in place. They reward organized crime, endanger the lives of police and citizens, corrupt legitimate businesses by encouraging money laundering, provide the major source of corruption among our police, and create a heavy burden on our justice system. |
| Apr 1, 2005 |
CN ON:
Pot Activists Sound Off At Meeting
A town hall meeting about illegal marijuana grow ops in Scarborough grew heated last night when activists supporting the legalization of cannabis challenged the information being presented by a parade of local politicians and police. |
| Apr 1, 2005 |
Think Before Un-inviting A Guest
By yanking Emery from the invitation list, Warawa has created greater flak than if he had just let Emery come and debate. The new MP said he didn't want the situation to become politicized. Well, it's Canada and it's pot. There is little that is more political, more of a hot-button issue, than that. |
| Mar 30, 2005 |
The Heat Is On
And while police still build their cases the old-fashioned way, they also rely on a little help from technology. It sounds a little sci-fi and comes with its own controversy, but the Saanich police department's thermal imager helps turn hunches into search warrants. [More rights gone to make tracking victimless "crime" easier.... a theme that we see repeating over and over ] |
| Mar 18, 2005 |
CN QU:
Bloc Pot Leader Complains Of Police Sting
The leader of the Bloc Pot told a Quebec Court hearing yesterday that undercover Montreal police officers secretly joined the pro-marijuana political party to find evidence against users of the illegal drug. The police have infiltrated Narcotics Anonymous meetings and everything else, so it should be no surprise. |
| Mar 15, 2005 |
CN ON:
York Constable, Husband Face Drug Charges
A York Regional Police officer has been suspended from duty and, along with her husband, is facing drug charges. |
| Mar 12, 2005 |
Canada Can't Handle Cannabis Legalization
Is marijuana a gateway drug to harder narcotics? The Canadian Chiefs of Police believe it is. One can safely assume they have the figures to back that up. Assume all you want, but all credible studies and thousands of years of use show cannabis is NOT a gateway drug. |
| Mar 9, 2005 |
CN ON:
Is Pot Plant Flag Causing A Problem?
The controversial flag looks similar to Canada's national flag but where the red maple leaf should be there is instead the image of a marijuana plant. The flag has been displayed in the front window of Redfearn's adult shop Parties and Affairs for four years. "They are only now waking up to it? That cracks me up," she said. |
| Mar 3, 2005 |
CN AB:
CN AB: Four Mounties Shot Dead
Gunman Kills Four Mounties: A Police Raid on an Alberta Marijuana Operation Goes Terribly Wrong, Shocking the National and Touching Off Calls for A Crackdown [( PROPAGANDA ALERT: All the headlines scream "Killed in grow op raid", though no plant numbers are given,,,, that is a first. <br><br> Regardless of the FACT that this incident was NOT related to a cannabis crop - the pot was successfully investigated the night before, the RCMP were there about the stolen cars but this will always be imbedded in the public mind as a grow op raid gone back. <br> More commentary: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070323232916/http://www.bcrevolution.ca/shooting_coverup.htm" target="_blank">Shooting coveup?</a> <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/hailofbullets/" target="_blank">Fifth Estate Documentary: Hail of Bullets</a>] |
| Feb 28, 2005 |
Marijuana Party Head Joins Liberals
The head of the Marijuana Canada party has resigned to join the Liberals. Marc-Boris St-Maurice, who led the party from its inception in 2000 until December of 2004, said he will make a formal announcement on Tuesday |
| Feb 21, 2005 |
CN NK:
Pot caf? owner found guilty of trafficking
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The owner of the Cannabis Caf? in Saint John has been found guilty of drug trafficking, after a judge rejected the defence that she was running a compassion club. |
| Feb 17, 2005 |
CN BC:
Pot Party Looks For Candidates
If the thought of legalizing marijuana is high on your list of priorities, consider becoming a Marijuana Party candidate in the May 17 B.C. election. |
| Feb 15, 2005 |
A Genuine Joint
The Hot Box Cafe isn't some trendy side-street eatery on Bloor West. It is Toronto's first and only marijuana cafe, tailored to the city's 'high' society. Nestled between Kensington Carpets and open-air grocery stores in the heart of Kensington Market, it's a place where patrons can sit down for a coffee and smoke a joint. Customers are encouraged to bring and smoke their own weed in the cafe. |
| Feb 3, 2005 |
So You Want to Grow Your Own Pot
I, as a proud pot-smoking Canadian, have been a trifle disturbed by some of the anti-drug rhetoric floating around lately. We've seen such gems as Anne McLellan labelling all pot smokers as "stupid" and the shameless use of an American national tragedy to push an inane anti-drug agenda: namely, advertisements linking drug use to terrorism. This is spin that makes dervishes look amateur. [How can you tell this is NOT from mainstream media ?] |
| Feb 3, 2005 |
CN BC:
Drug-Trafficking Charge Dismissed Over Police Arrest
'Ends Do Not Always Justify Means,' Judge Says Of Cocaine Bust. Drug-trafficking charges against a Vancouver man found with 24 kilograms of cocaine have been dismissed because of "planned and deliberate" Charter violations by Vancouver police. |
| Feb 2, 2005 |
CN BC:
Victoria pot activist fined $500
A medical marijuana activist was fined $500 Wednesday for lighting up five joints at a pro-pot rally. Leon Edward (Ted) Smith, 35, was found guilty of marijuana trafficking after he lit up five marijuana joints at a pro-marijuana rally at the University of Victoria in November 2000. |
| Jan 28, 2005 |
CN BC:
RCMP Reach Settlement With Off-Duty Policeman
Who should wave him over and ask to see his driver's licence and vehicle registration but a tall man with a thick Texan accent? "We have different freedoms than they do down there. You don't want your police meshing to the point where we start taking on the policies of another police jurisdiction." [Disturbing trend - more US cops coming over the border ] |