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Feb 11, 2008	ON: Pot Smoker Fights Bar Ban A man who uses "medical marijuana" [sic] to deal with pain from a neck injury he suffered in Mississauga nearly two decades ago is appealing to the Ontario Human Rights Commission for the right to smoke up in front of a Burlington sports bar he frequents. .."He wants me outside his bar by 100 feet. I just want to be treated like every other ( tobacco ) smoker," whom he says are often within 10 feet of the bar's front doors.
Feb 11, 2008	QU: A Little Science With Your Cafe, Madame? Tomorrow night, Montrealers will get a chance to share their thoughts and concerns at a Cafe Scientifique, an informal gathering where members of the public can chat with leading researchers in a setting that is less intimidating than a classroom or a doctor's office. ....The CIHR Cafe Scientifique's "Drugs: the Good, the Bad and the Useful" takes place tomorrow at 6 p.m. at O Patro Vys, 356 Mount Royal Ave. E. ( corner St. Denis St. ). Admission is free.
Feb 9, 2008	Elaborate Grow-Op Defence One To Remember Agecoutay as much as argues he can grow whatever he wants. He claims to be chief and spiritual leader of his own sovereign nation. As such, he makes his own laws on his own territory. Among his legislative initiatives, for example, is the sale over the Internet of memberships in his First Nation for $10,500. The fee is justified by Agecoutay's claim that members are exempt from Canadian taxes. Three of his co-accused are tax deniers from out of province who met Agecoutay through his website. The other two are Agecoutay's brothers, all three residing on the reserve. Apparently there is some jurisdictional overlap between the Pasqua First Nation and Agecoutay's First Nation.
Feb 9, 2008	Behind The Toronto Police Scandal Years Of Investigation Went Into A Case That, Thanks To Judge's Ruling, May Never Go To Trial Dozens of police officers under suspicion. A million pages of documents. Thousands of interviews. Hundreds of criminal charges. Easily the worst scandal in Toronto police history. And then it fell apart. Charges were stayed because the prosecutors took too long in handing over the mountain of evidence to the defence. [An definitive work on this subject]
Jan 25, 2008	The Pot Circus Comes to the Courthouse First the cops took their pot. Now they want to take their church. Weed worshippers Walter Tucker and Michael Baldasaro, reverends in the Church of the Universe, were served yesterday with an application by the attorney general to forfeit the Barton Street building the brothers call both home and church. The AG is going after the house worth about $98,000 as "offence-related property" since Tucker and Baldasaro were convicted of selling $70 worth of marijuana to an undercover police officer.
Jan 22, 2008	Tips On Grow-Ops Draining Crime Stoppers Marijuana Is Slowly Bleeding Crime Stoppers Of Niagara. "We're not funded by the government, we are not an arm of the police," said Crime Stoppers of Niagara chairman Stu Black. "We get our money through donations." ...With some funding from the Niagara Regional Police Services Board, Crime Stoppers hosted a training conference in June that raised enough money to get the organization out of trouble.
Jan 10, 2008	BC: Driving High As the Counterattack Road Check season winds down, Saanich police were surprised by one memorable night that saw the number of drivers caught driving while high on marijuana exceed those caught for drinking and driving.
Jan 9, 2008	The Prince of Pot Deserves B.C. Support Emery is scheduled for an extradition hearing Jan. 21. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency wants to take him across the border and try him on charges relating to the marijuana seed business he ran flagrantly and successfully in Vancouver for years.
Jan 8, 2008	Why Is Canada Copying Failure? Author: Larry Campbell: Is there really anyone anywhere in Canada who believes that U.S. drug policies are working? Or that they are deserving of being copied here? This is the direction Prime Minister Stephen Harper would have us go. More prisons and more people in prisons has not worked for our southern neighbours, and there is no logic behind the move to increase criminal penalties for drugs.
Dec 18, 2007	AB: 'Cannabis Is the Least of Our Problems' Lethbridge - A pro-marijuana group took its protest to Lethbridge streets Monday. Warmly-dressed protesters rallied in front of MP Rick Casson's office, after parading their signs through the city centre. They were opposing the Conservative government's plans for compulsory jail terms for people selling street drugs.
Dec 17, 2007	Canadian National Demonstration Against Bill C-26 <div align="center"><img src="http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v164/33/32/627761996/n627761996_480861_9881.jpg" /></div> <blockquote>ALSO: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjwpo1HCRhw" target="_blank"> Criminal lawyer Kirk Tousaw explains why the proposed changes to Canada's marijuana laws are bad for the entire country, and how you can help to stop them</a></blockquote>
Dec 13, 2007	Compassion Pleaded After Drugs Convictions Pete Young said he wasn't trying to hide anything -- he was offering marijuana from a downtown location to ease people's pain. He said doctors knew. So did the police.
Dec 12, 2007	BC: Drug Laws Draconian Victoria - Protesters are set to gather Monday, December 17, at MP offices in Victoria and across Canada to speak out against proposed drug laws they say are draconian and ineffective. The Conservatives' Bill C-26 would entrench the criminalization of cannabis and require minimum mandatory prison terms for people caught with pot.
Dec 11, 2007	Marijuana Activists Will Gather At MP Offices An exciting new grass-roots political campaign is beginning to grow across Canada. In response to the Americanization of Canadian drug policy by the Conservative Party of Canada, ordinary Canadians are standing up to ask a simple question: Why? On November 20th, 2007 the Conservative government of Canada introduced Bill C-26, imposing mandatory minimum jail sentences for cannabis ( marijuana ) offences in an attempt to appear "tough" on crime.
Dec 6, 2007	Police Officer Loses Appeal, Must Resign Over Cocaine An Ottawa police officer ordered to resign after stealing crack cocaine for his own use has lost an appeal to keep his job.
Dec 4, 2007	Bill C-2 Second Reading Debate Adjourned (1520) The second key area is impaired driving. Bill C-2 proposes long-overdue reforms to address impaired driving, which unfortunately remains a serious problem in Canada. The bill does so in three ways: First, it addresses drug impaired driving by proposing the necessary legislative framework for the drug recognition expert, or DRE program. These reforms would permit police to demand roadside physical sobriety tests. Where those tests reveal impairment, but the person is not impaired by alcohol, police could then demand that the person perform other tests administered by a drug recognition expert and to provide a sample of body fluids to be analyzed for the presence of a drug.
Dec 3, 2007	NS: Simpson Facing Charges of Trafficking, Sentencing AMHERST - Within minutes of his Supreme Court sentencing for counts of possession, trafficking and producing marijuana being adjourned, Rickey Logan Simpson was taken into custody and faces additional charges of trafficking the same substance. Crown attorney Paul Drysdale told Justice Felix Cacchione that two officers from Amherst Police Department, including Sgt. Tim Hunter, were at the back of the courtroom to take Simpson into custody where he would be charged with trafficking marijuana.
Nov 30, 2007	Ministers Guilty Of Trafficking 'Sacrament' Hamilton's high priest of pot, who turns 75 next month, faces a possible jail sentence after being convicted of selling the holy sacrament to an undercover police officer. A Superior Court jury deliberated eight hours Wednesday night before finding Walter Tucker and fellow minister of pot, Michael Baldasaro, 58, guilty of all five charges. They will be sentenced Jan. 24.
Nov 21, 2007	Just Your Average Ganja-Growing Soccer Mom Showcase Television Helps Break More Taboos With Cult Favourite Weeds NEXT TIME YOU light a spliff and sit in front of the tube, why not flip to a show that portrays the industry of the reefer you're enjoying? A new phase in the presence of marijuana in the entertainment media seems to be signaled by the rising popularity of Weeds, the blazed comedy/drama carried by the cable network Showcase
Nov 17, 2007	The Dangers of Keeping Pot Illegal The benefits to Canada's justice system of legalizing marijuana would be immediate. Police would have more time to investigate real crime, including cracking down on harder drugs. The courts wouldn't be bogged down by trivial pot charges. Jail cells could be reserved for actual criminals.
Nov 15, 2007	Toking Your Way To Success So last week a swiss study was published saying teens who use only cannabis appear to function better than those who also use tobacco, and are more socially driven and have no more psychosocial problems than those who abstain from both substances.
Nov 15, 2007	Pot Activists Hail Ruling (Invalid law) Marijuana activists are hailing a recent court ruling as the beginning of the end of Canada's prohibition on pot, but the Crown dismisses the decision as non-binding. A trial judge in Oshawa, Ont., threw out charges of simple possession of marijuana against three young men on Oct. 19, relying on a previous court ruling that found Canada's pot law unconstitutional. In making his decision, Judge Norman Edmondson cited a decision last July by a fellow judge of the Ontario Court of Justice. [ See: <a href="http://thepotlawhasfallen.ca/" target="_blank">http://thepotlawhasfallen.ca/</a>, especially if you have been charged with possession of cannabis ]
Nov 10, 2007	Pot Search Legal A dreadlocked Toronto human rights worker has lost a "test case" against Canadian border officials after claiming he was targeted for a Pearson airport drug search because of his hairstyle.
Nov 9, 2007	Drunks Put End to Pot Meetings The smoke has cleared and it was alcohol that killed the marijuana bash. After 12 years, the world's largest weekly pot rally has been stubbed out because of drinking.
Nov 1, 2007	Suspended Driver Sues A driver given a 24-hour suspension because police suspected he was high on marijuana is suing to have the ban removed from his records. Jugveer Singh Purewal says in a petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court that he told a Surrey police officer he was not under the influence of drugs when he was pulled over early Sept. 14 and suspended from driving for 24 hours. Purewal said the officer didn't administer a sobriety test and he was denied the opportunity to dispute the ban because there is no mechanism to do so when a 24-hour driving suspension is based on suspected drug use.

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