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Munchies Available At Medical Marijuana Expo
Ivy Lovell's gourmet cookies and brownies are guaranteed to give you a buzz. She was one of dozens of vendors at a medical marijuana show at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre called Treating Yourself Expo that opened Friday and runs all weekend. | |
| Jan 23, 2009 |
Band Bangs Drum For Pot Reform
A 10-member, underground rock band that calls itself the Indus Guys - -- or In Disguise -- has launched a website promoting a series of original songs singing the praises of pot, as well as a political plea for Canadians to call their MPs and demand an end to 81 years of marijuana prohibition. See: <a href="http://indusguys.com/" target="_blank">Indus Guys</a> |
| Dec 6, 2008 |
Man Given Second Hearing In Bid To Recover $156,800 US Seized By Police
A man seeking the return of $156,800 US seized by police will get another chance to argue his case before a judge. ...Struss appealed. This week, B.C. Supreme Justice Paul Williamson sent the matter back for a new hearing. He found the trial judge erred by ruling that an RCMP officer was competent to give evidence on banking practices -- evidence relied upon by the judge in making her decision. |
| Dec 2, 2008 |
'Weed King' Found Guilty
A medical-marijuana activist known as DaWeedKing and his wife were found guilty Monday of cultivating 27 pot plants, almost 44 months after they were arrested at their Albert Road home. ...Fred Pritchard said outside court that he was disappointed the medical-marijuana aspect of his activities -- he has previously run the Marijuana Compassion Club of Windsor under the moniker DaWeedKing - -- was not brought out at trial. |
| Nov 28, 2008 |
Illicit Drugs Should Be Legal, Officer Says
David Bratzer and I share at least one opinion in common: That it costs us a pointless fortune to maintain the charade of having effective drug laws in Canada. ....in fact, Bratzer, a constable, is one of only two active police officers in Canada who does public speaking on behalf of the U.S.-based non-profit organization Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ( LEAP ). |
| Nov 26, 2008 |
Mayor's Marijuana Work Still An Issue For Media
Mayor elect Brian Taylor said he's aware and sensitive to the fact that many residents are opposed to his marijuana advocacy and promised to keep his two lives separate. "I've made some concessions in terms of my civil rights," he said, in an interview. "But I'm not going to give up my right to campaign against marijuana prohibition." |
| Nov 25, 2008 |
Kindred Pot Gathering
A small crowd of pot activists lit up on the steps of Old City Hall yesterday morning to protest against last week's police raid on the Kindred Cafe, a local hangout for medicinal and recreational marijuana smokers. |
| Nov 24, 2008 |
Pot Cafe Owner To Turn Himself In Medical Marijuana Supporters To Rally
Dominic Cramer, owner of the coffee shop raided by Toronto police last week on suspicion of marijuana trafficking, will turn himself in at 52 Division this evening, says his lawyer, Alan Young..."To the best of my knowledge it's a case about edibles that allegedly involved marijuana," Young said. |
| Nov 22, 2008 |
Kindred Apathy For T.O. Dope Cafe
The Kindred Cafe - busted in a drug raid Thursday evening - has been particularly popular with registered medical marijuana users, those actually issued with Health Canada cards designating their status. |
| Nov 22, 2008 |
Police Target Pot-friendly 'Yongesterdam'
Police flooded the burgeoning counterculture neighbourhood known as Yongesterdam late on Thursday, raiding an openly marijuana-friendly cafe after undercover officers allegedly purchased a mug of hot chocolate and snacks laced with drugs. |
| Nov 21, 2008 |
Drug Issues Keep Police, Resource Providers Busy
Const. Gary O'Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman, said police are kept busy dealing with issues that arise from the use and trade of legal and illegal drugs, as well as the related homelessness, addiction and petty crime issues. "A significant amount of our time is dealing with drug issues," he said. [The answer seems so obvious] |
| Nov 20, 2008 |
Defelice Released From Prison Pending Appeal
After being sentenced to one year in prison on October 14, Holy Smoke Culture Shop co-owner Paul DeFelice has been released from Kamloops Regional Correction Centre since October 22, pending an appeal on his conviction. |
| Nov 20, 2008 |
Smoke Clears For Hempyz
Hempyz is legitimate. After refusing the pot plant novelty store a business licence, Langley City has done an about-face. "I went to City Hall on Nov. 6 to dispute the $100 per day fines [for operating a business without a licence] and staff asked me if I would like to fill out a business license," said Hempyz owner Randy Caine. |
| Nov 19, 2008 |
Appeal Date Set For Pot Priests
Church of the Universe co-founders Michael Baldasaro and Walter Tucker are hoping the date of their next court appearance is a sign of success. They were told earlier this week the Ontario Court of Appeal will hear the appeals on their marijuana trafficking convictions and sentences next year on April 20. |
| Nov 15, 2008 |
Errors Quash Drugs Case
A Quebec Court judge yesterday accused the Crown and police of using abusive tactics and placed a stay of proceedings on drug-trafficking charges against two people in a high-profile investigation. In doing so, Judge Gilles Garneau essentially tossed out the cases against Antal Babos, 42, and Sergio Piccirilli, 48, at the Laval courthouse yesterday. |
| Nov 7, 2008 |
Store Dumps Hemp Stock
Once the smoke cleared in the fight between the City and a hemp store, the owner got his licence. A Langley City employee hand delivered a business licence to Hempyz store late Thursday afternoon. Owner Randy Caine said once he and the City came to an agreement that he would not sell hemp products, City staff assisted him in reapplying, and the licence was quickly approved. |
| Nov 7, 2008 |
Charged Officer Faces Court
The trial is scheduled to begin next week for a Peel Regional Police officer arrested in late 2005 over allegations he was attempting to traffic cocaine. Officials with the Public Prosecution Service of Canada ( PPSC ), the federal government organization responsible for prosecutions on behalf of the Attorney General of Canada, indicated that Cst. Sheldon Cook, 39, will appear in a Brampton courtroom Monday. |
| Nov 6, 2008 |
Drugged Daze In The Don
I've Become My Own Worst Nightmare, A Medpot Horror Story NOW writer and med pot activist Matt Mernagh, who suffers from fibromyalgia, scoliosis and arthritic pain, was arrested August 16 with 37 plants and charged with possession of marijuana, possession for the purposes of trafficking and production of marijuana. The trial date has not been set. The following is an account of his 13 days in the Don Jail. |
| Oct 28, 2008 |
Drug Case Evidence Tossed
It seemed a stroke of luck for Halifax Regional Police that a pair of officers responding to a car accident last year found a large quantity of drugs and a loaded handgun stashed in one of the damaged vehicles. But their luck changed Monday when a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge ruled that the constables lied to Christopher Henderson in order to search his car because they knew they had no grounds for a warrant. |
| Oct 22, 2008 |
Cops To Keep Eye On Pot-Dealing Cafe
Quebec City police warn they will closely monitor the activities of a cafe that plans to sell marijuana. The operators of Montreal's Compassion Club say they will open a second shop today in the provincial capital to respond to growing demand for "medicinal" marijuana. |
| Oct 22, 2008 |
Message Sent
Provincial Court Judge Gives Paul Defelice One Year in Jail to Send a Message to Community About Drug Trafficking They argued they provided a necessary service to a town with a reputation for smoking pot, but the sentence handed out to the first of four men found guilty of selling marijuana from their downtown business showed the judge thought the community could do without it. |
| Oct 10, 2008 |
OPP Offer Warning About Marijuana Resin
The Ontario Province Police Drug Enforcement Section is warning the public about the dangers of the production of marijuana resin following charges laid in connection an explosion at a duplex in Ingersoll. The production of marijuana resin is achieved by the soaking marijuana in an organic solvent. [This would not happen in a regulated market] |
| Oct 5, 2008 |
No Shortage Of Illegal Pot Groomers
VANCOUVER - There's green to be made clipping and trimming the green leaves in British Columbia's marijuana industry. The prospect of tax-free income is driving some people into temporary work as "clippers" for indoor and outdoor grow operations. |
| Sep 29, 2008 |
BC:
Holy Smoke Four' Convicted of Marijuana Trafficking
Legalization Fight: Judge shoots down defence arguments in case involving downtown Nelson business; prosecutor says no remorse from four men should lead to a harsh sentence A guilty verdict came down Friday in Nelson Provincial Court for the four men charged with marijuana trafficking out of the Holy Smoke Culture Shop on Baker Street in Nelson. |
| Sep 27, 2008 |
NS:
Maccan's Marijuana Maverick Enters Race
AMHERST - The marijuana maverick is back to take a second crack at becoming MP for Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley. Rick Simpson, the Maccan man who believes he has found the cure for cancer in a marijuana paste he calls hemp oil, said Friday that he filed the necessary paperwork with the riding's returning officer earlier this week. "I'm running to get my message out," Mr. Simpson said. "I want to see lives saved and get the country on its feet and straightened out. Hemp is the answer to all our problems." |