News - Police (419 items)
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| 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 |
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| 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 ] |
| Jan 26, 2005 |
I'll Take Police Over Landlords, Thanks
I don't think a bylaw that encourages landlords to be any more paranoid or nosy is a good idea. Of equal concern for tenants is that landlords are not very good at recognizing innocent tenants. Worse, many landlords are not familiar with the Residential Tenancy Act, and a concept called the right to "quiet and peaceful enjoyment of property." [Of course if you are wealthy enough to afford your own home, you live in a less intrusive world than your less fortunate counterparts. Is it class war when those who make these laws have a choice to live under them, while for others there is no choice?] |
| Jan 25, 2005 |
PUB LTE: Injustice Being Done To Cannabis Activists
When did sharing cannabis with friends and political supporters become "trafficking?" Though the law technically allows convictions even where no money is exchanged, there is a terrible injustice being done |
| Jan 25, 2005 |
CN BC:
Bail Set At $150,000 For Marijuana Activist
Abbotsford's self-proclaimed marijuana activist Tim Felger will have to pay a $150,000 bail to get of out jail and allow Abbotsford police to search his property any time if he is released. |
| Jan 23, 2005 |
CN ON:
Orleans Smoke Shop Raises Profile Of Cannabis
It's called Puffalot: A new store on St. Joseph Boulevard in Orleans that sells pipes, rolling paper, gram scales, and bongs ( multiple-user water pipes ) -- everything needed to smoke marijuana, except the actual weed. |
| Jan 22, 2005 |
CN BC:
Pot Inc.
Big Businesses Have Sprung Up Around the Fuzzy Legal Boundaries of Marijuana Cultivation in Canada. Are Some Crossing The Line?.... the government is supplying roughly 1,000 people with marijuana...compassion clubs... are illegally supplying nearly 10,000 |
| Jan 21, 2005 |
CN BC:
They Make Millions Helping Pot Growers
The owners of Advanced Nutrients beat back legal challenges even as they improve yields for B.C. bud |
| Jan 20, 2005 |
CN QU:
Coffee Pot Closed
To little fanfare, the Coffee Pot, the Latin Quarter pot-smoking lounge and restaurant, closed its doors last month....business was so slow that he had no choice but to shut its doors just before Christmas. |
| Jan 20, 2005 |
Around The Bong With Tommy Chong
"It's a gift from God to make us feel better; something to help us appreciate things. People just need to figure that out." |
| Jan 15, 2005 |
CN ON:
Man Dies as Police Raid Home
"The officers were attempting to arrest a man inside the home and became involved in a struggle with him," the statement read. "At approximately 2:07 a.m., police requested an ambulance because the man was having trouble breathing." |
| Jan 14, 2005 |
Drug Dog Educates
The jury is in - roughly 95% of my readers say they've got no problem with a drug dog being deployed in Edmonton's senior and junior high schools...To me, police should have to have probable cause before launching any search. Otherwise we're headed for a Communist-style, police-state society where authorities have sweeping powers to randomly search your vehicle, office and home. [Disturbing trend - we are led to believe, or it is true, there is wide acceptance of totalitarianism] |
| Jan 13, 2005 |
Cannabis For Connoisseurs
Pot Guru Ed Rosenthal Releases The Second Volume Of His Big Book Of Buds |
| Jan 12, 2005 |
Who's Paranoid?
In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly eat. Cigarettes kill. Marijuana doesn't. And by the way, there is not a single study that says second-hand marijuana smoke causes cancer. |
| Jan 8, 2005 |
CN BC:
Medical Pot Advocate Guilty Of Trafficking
Medical Pot Advocate Guilty Of Trafficking </a> The charge against Smith arises from a March 21, 2002 search of the club's Johnson Street offices. Police seized marijuana, cookies, massage oils and salves. The cookies, oils and salves were tested by Health Canada and shown to include cannabis resin, a prohibited substance. He was handed a nine-month conditional discharge. |
| Jan 4, 2005 |
CN BC:
Police Get Nod For Silly Raid, Translink Ranks As Dumbest
"This raid is not going to put these sorts of operations out of business. Marijuana is being sold under the counter all over this city and Da Kine's Caf,'s main mistake was that they were quite public about how they were in fact doing it," said BCCLA president John Russell. "The war on marijuana is over and the police have lost it." |