News - Police (419 items)
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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>] |