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| 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. |
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| 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. |
| Oct 24, 2007 |
Party Has High Hopes
A user of medicinal marijuana in Regina has joined the race for a seat in Saskatchewan's legislature to push for a greener society -- and he doesn't mean the environment. Tom Shapiro, 51, has let his name stand as Saskatchewan Marijuana Party candidate for the riding of Regina Coronation Park. |
| Oct 22, 2007 |
A Criminal Mind: Juries Can Nullify, Just Don't Tell
The common law recognizes the jury's power not to convict when a law is unfair, or when it would unfairly impact upon the accused. This is known as jury nullification. The trilogy of Canadian cases from the Supreme Court of Canada that have dealt with this are R. v. Morgentaler ( 1988 ), R. v. Latimer ( 2001 ), and the recent case of R. v. Krieger ( 2006 ). |
| Oct 22, 2007 |
Pro-Pot Protest Nets Just 60 People
Police were out in full force for a contingent of mostly teenagers protesting to decriminalize marijuana during Saturday's pro-pot rally. About 60 people marched up Pitt Street to Domino's Pizza near Tollgate Road for the first-ever Walk 4 Weed demonstration. It was a far cry from the hundreds who were expected to attend, but that didn't stop organizers from forging ahead with the peaceful demonstration. [So does police intimidation work?] |
| Oct 19, 2007 |
ONTARIO JUDGE RULES CANNABIS PROHIBITION INVALID
<strong>Today in an Oshawa Court, the trial judge in the 'Tom, Dick, and Harry' case dismissed the charges against them, for simple possession of marijuana. He said that in his view the marijuana prohibition had no valid force or effect. ...He said the cases against Tom, Dick, and Harry, are dismissed because the law is not there to charge them or convict them. The exact terms of his decision will be available later, after an exchange of faxes with the Court house. </strong> [Every person arrested for a cannabis offense should read this important information and make their lawyer aware of it - this is a federal law and should be applied the same across the country] |
| Oct 16, 2007 |
ON:
Pro-pot Protest Planned
Protesters calling for the decriminalization of one of Canada's most readily-available illegal drugs are planning a massive march through Cornwall this weekend. Organizers of the first annual "Walk 4 Weed," which is being promoted by local pro-pot group Cannabis Cornwall, are hoping at least 400 people will peacefully march through the city Saturday afternoon. |
| Oct 14, 2007 |
OPP Officer Charged Following Drug Raid
A longtime local OPP officer, now working in northern Ontario, is charged following a drug raid by the provincial police near Thunder Bay. Det.-Const. Lynn MacKay, who worked in London for years under her married name, Lynn Pretty, before joining the Nipigon OPP, was charged along with her boyfriend following an Oct. 5 raid on a house that netted $6,000 worth of marijuana. |
| Oct 11, 2007 |
Marijuana Party Candidate Gets Three Months For Trafficking
VANCOUVER - Former Marijuana Party candidate Marc Boyer has been sentenced to three months in jail after pleading guilty in Vancouver Provincial Court to possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. |
| Oct 4, 2007 |
Med Pot's Slow Access?
As the Montreal Compassion Centre gets ready to celebrate the official opening of their new digs on 72 Rachel E. this Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m., relations between the benevolent marijuana distribution organization and the bureaucrats running Health Canada's Medical Marijuana Access program remain as stilted as ever. |
| Oct 3, 2007 |
Club Head Wants Quebec To Run Medical Marijuana Access
The founder of the Montreal Compassion Club wants Quebec to take over the administration of the federal Medical Marijuana Access program in the province. Marc-Boris St-Maurice said yesterday the program is "an embarrassing oxymoron." He complained about major delays processing applications, licence renewals and changes of address. |
| Oct 3, 2007 |
BC:
US War Deserter Is Held After Pot Arrest In Nelson
NELSON - A U.S. army deserter has been arrested in Nelson. Robin Long, 24, was arrested by police on a countrywide warrant on Monday. Long, who is from Ontario, was in Nelson visiting friends and staying with fellow war resisters. But Nelson police Chief Dan Maluta said Long was arrested as a result of regular police work, not because they were targeting war resisters. |
| Oct 1, 2007 |
Tory Pot Smokers Should Be The First To Turn Themselves Into Police!
Stephen Harper is about to declare another 'War on drugs.' Statistics show that roughly 16.8% of Canadians use marijuana / cannabis. You therefore have to assume that there MUST be a couple of Conservative Members of Parliament who fit into the 16.8% number. ... It is time for EVERY card carrying member of the Conservative Party of Canada who uses cannabis to lead by example and turn themselves into the police immediately whether or not they support Harper's new initiative. |
| Sep 30, 2007 |
Tories to Drug Users: The Party's Over
Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: "the party's over" for illicit drug users. "In the next few days, we're going to be back in the business of an anti-drug strategy," Clement told The Canadian Press. "In that sense, the party's over." Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Halifax all reported increases of between 20% and 50% in 2006 of arrests for possession of cannabis, compared with the previous year. As a result thousands of people were charged with a criminal offence that, under the previous Liberal government, was on the verge of being classified as a misdemeanour. |
| Sep 29, 2007 |
Cannabis Culture Lights Up the Festival
Films About Marijuana Are Challenging Viewers' Thoughts About the Politics Behind the Drug VANCOUVER -- Nick Wilson was 26, developing a documentary - his first - - about online infidelity, when he had a conversation with his 68-year-old aunt that sent him in a new direction. Aunt Wendy had seen a news story on TV about the Vancouver marijuana activist Marc Emery and she was incensed. Why were U.S. authorities after him? And why would Canada even consider extraditing a Canadian to face up to life in prison, simply for selling marijuana seeds? |
| Sep 27, 2007 |
ON:
Time For City To Grow Op
After three hours punching each other silly over issues like amending the fireworks bylaw, the licensing and standards committee is finally ready to hear my deputation September 11. I'm here on behalf of the Canadian Cannabis Society to speak to the final agenda item: how the city plans to police pot and divvy up the proceeds of grow op busts. |
| Sep 17, 2007 |
AB:
'Prince of Pot' Gets White Hat
Canada's "Prince of Pot" has joined the ranks of singer Dolly Parton, Prince Philip and Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean. Arriving at the Calgary airport for a two-day visit Saturday, Canada's best-known marijuana activist, Marc Emery, was white-hatted by the Calgary Airport's official White Hat Volunteers. |
| Sep 17, 2007 |
AG Increases Use of Forfeiture Powers to Seize Assets
The Ministry of the Attorney General has increased its use of sweeping provincial civil forfeiture powers in the past year to seize assets, including people's homes, even if criminal proceedings have been stayed or withdrawn because of Charter violations. ...A report issued recently by the attorney general's office stated that $3.6 million in property has been seized in the past four years in 170 proceedings. Nearly $1 million has been distributed to crime victims and more than $900,000 transferred to municipal police forces. [More US-style war on civil liberties] |
| Sep 12, 2007 |
Senior Officer Charged In Arrest, Strip Search
EDMONTON - A city police officer has been charged with unlawful exercise of authority for arresting and strip searching the son of lawyer Tom Engel after evidence of the alleged crime -- a marijuana cigarette -- was thrown away. |