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| Jul 18, 2007 |
Marijuana Maverick Says It's About Rights
Two weeks ago a civil suit, launched by Reimer, was thrown out of court with Ottawa Justice C. McKinnon saying that Reimer "was the author of his own misfortune."... "It's not publicity," says Reimer, who's been lighting up joints on a daily basis since he was 13. "What I want to do is to make sure people stand up for their right." With tears filling his eyes, he adds, "I love my county; it's getting less and less free all the time and it's very scary." |
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| Jul 13, 2007 |
The Police Aren't Experts On Drug Use
When the renowned social scientists of the Canadian Police Association testified to a Senate committee on illicit drugs, they claimed there is lots of evidence that liberal drug policies lead to greater drug use. "Legalization and permissiveness will increase drug use and abuse substantially," a spokesman told the senators. ..The experts I listen to are scientists. "Existing research seems to indicate that there is little apparent relationship between severity of sanctions prescribed for drug use and prevalence or frequency of use," concluded a 2001 report by a panel of the National Research Council, one of the U.S. National Academies of Science, probably the most esteemed scientific body in the world. |
| Jul 11, 2007 |
CFL Gone To Pot, Ex-Player Says
A Lot Of Players In The Cfl Smoke A Lot Of Marijuana. This is the word from Sean Millington, who spent 13 seasons as a running back with the B.C. Lions, Edmonton Eskimos, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto Argonauts and who has been a member of the CBC's CFL broadcast crew off and on since 2003. ...Millington claims that, unlike NFLers, CFLers generally don't get paid enough to be able to afford drugs -- except for marijuana. |
| Jul 11, 2007 |
Legalizing Pot Makes Sense
What's really remarkable about Canada's status as a cannabis capital is that if you were to set out looking for reasons to worry about it - -- reasons that do not amount to disliking it for its own sake -- you would have an awfully hard time finding them....That would seem to leave very little, aside from the omnipresent trade and travel considerations that come from being a neighbour of the U.S., to stand logically in the way of decriminalization. |
| Jul 9, 2007 |
An Apology Required
WINNIPEG police officers were understandably dismayed that the man accused of shooting the officers in December has been released on bail, the judge having been convinced Daniell Anderson was neither a risk to the community or of fleeing. Their abusive comments, however, directed toward the judge are unacceptable and the officers must formally apologize to Court of Queen's Bench Justice Karen Simonsen. ...One officer was heard to say someone -- Daniell Anderson? -- should have been killed, while the mutterings of others called into disrepute the justice system. Said in the heat of the moment, they were nonetheless alarming remarks. |
| Jul 6, 2007 |
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Police Officer Arrested During Series Of Raids
Toronto police have accused one of their own officers of helping an Eastern European organized crime group charged with importing and exporting marijuana and cocaine between Canada and the United States. |
| Jul 6, 2007 |
Pot Documentary Has Local Filmmaker On A Roll
A Kelowna man's documentary film about the marijuana industry is making waves on the film festival circuit. The Union: the business of getting high, won outstanding feature documentary honours at the Winnipeg International Film Festival last month. Next month, it is slated to appear at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. |
| Jul 5, 2007 |
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Home-Grow Registry Wanted
Real estate agents and local police are working together to ensure potential homeowners don't get duped into buying a home once used in an illegal drug operation. |
| Jun 28, 2007 |
Punting Pot
Inmates Use Footballs And Baseballs To Smuggle In Drugs Guards at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre foiled a bizarre attempt to smuggle drugs in a football. On Saturday night, a prisoner doing cleanup duty triggered an alarm when he got too close to a fence line at the jail, sending guards scurrying to the scene, where they grabbed the inmate and discovered a football filled with tobacco, said Solicitor General spokesman Christine Skjerven. |
| Jun 27, 2007 |
Gatineau Officer To Remain Jailed Until Trial
A Gatineau police officer charged with possession of narcotics will be detained until his trial. At the end of a day-long bail hearing, Justice Jules Barriere ruled that Peter Vranas, 41, should not be released, to "maintain the confidence of the public in the administration of justice." |
| Jun 26, 2007 |
MB:
Local Energy-Drink Maker Pitches To Pot-Heads
Clarus Canadian Springs is carrying Bong Water Energized Sports Drinks, a line of beverages where references to marijuana and the drug subculture abound. Bong Water is the brainchild of Growth Capital Group. The drinks are made with Clarus's own spring water. Bong Water comes in four versions -- the Original Bong Water 420 Chronic Tonic, Purple Haze, Green Dreams and Rasta Cherry. The drinks are available at stores in Canada and the U.S. |
| Jun 22, 2007 |
QU: Gatineau Officer Arrested On Cocaine Charge
A Gatineau police officer has been charged with drug-related offences after more than two kilograms of cocaine was found in the car he was in late Wednesday. Peter Vranas, 41, remained calm as he was remanded yesterday. The 20-year veteran of the force will remain behind bars until his bail hearing, which is scheduled for Tuesday at the Gatineau courthouse. |
| Jun 14, 2007 |
Raids Terrify Children
Here's a different perspective on yesterday's police raids. It comes from Andrene, who is 10 years old and experienced the first minutes at the end of police guns after officers burst into her bedroom just before dawn. She was there with her mother, Sharon Mitchell, 32, and baby sister, Alexandra, 2. Down the hall in another bedroom were her cousin, Joanna, 9, and Joanna's mother, Charmaine Osbourne, 30. "This morning, the police officers, they came and they were kicking down the doors," said Andrene in a solemn voice. "And they came in with their guns and they were pointing at my sister and me. "My sister got scared and she was crying." |
| Jun 13, 2007 |
SN: Student Suspended For Opinion On Pot
REGINA ( SNN ) -- Kieran King says he has never smoked pot, but his views on marijuana have led to his suspension from Wawota Parkland School. King said he was threatened with police action by principal Susan Wilson after telling friends at the school that marijuana was less harmful than alcohol. "In my opinion, cannabis is safer than they say, it is not worse than alcohol or tobacco," said King, a 15-year-old Grade 10 student. Wilson accused King of using and selling marijuana at school, according to a media release issued by the Saskatchewan Marijuana Party. King has offered to submit to a voluntary drug test to prove otherwise. "I've never smoked marijuana. I've never even seen it," said King, an honours student. [Incredible courage by a young person who chose not to conform. ] |
| Jun 9, 2007 |
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Students Face Drug Charges
Nine teenagers are facing drug-related charges after a newly formed police team swooped in on a Guelph high school yesterday morning. |
| Jun 8, 2007 |
BC:
Judge Nixes Cops For Hydro Inspections
"We only use police for safety issues," she said. "If they don't like the fact that it's the police that are working with our firefighters, then that's fine; we'll have somebody else. "But at the end of the day we want to make sure our firefighters are protected and are safe and that whole team of B.C. Hydro personnel as well, their safety is first and foremost. That's the reason why we had the police there, and the only reason. The police aren't there to lay charges; the police aren't there to execute warrants. We're there because it's a fire safety issue." [Talk about mixed messages..it is a legal issue when the police alone shut down cannabis cultivation, but it is a fire safety issue when other civil servants are enforcing prohibition] |
| May 30, 2007 |
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Party Ends in Punishment for Police Officers
A Peel Regional Police officer has been demoted for "unwanted sexual touching" involving a woman he was with while he and another officer were partying in Ottawa. ...Ho Sue allowed one of the women "to blow the marijuana smoke into his mouth as they were kissing," according to the disciplinary report. |
| May 30, 2007 |
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Officer Defends Himself
An Ontario Provincial Police constable named in a million-dollar lawsuit believes he used a reasonable amount of force when arresting Rick Reimer March 27, 2002. Constable Tim Broder, a member of the Killaloe OPP detachment, testified in his own defence Tuesday during the second day of the civil trial at Pembroke's Superior Court. Mr. Reimer is suing Const. Broder, Killaloe OPP Sgt. Dwayne Sears and the province's Crown, claiming wrongful arrest and the use of excessive force in two arrests March 27, 2002 in the parking lot of the Killaloe court. |
| May 26, 2007 |
Little Interest In Drug Debate
There was no moderator, one of three panelists left halfway through the debate and only two dozen audience members turned up. But that didn't stop the LEAP debate on drug prohibition Tuesday night at Matsqui Centennial Auditorium. There to discuss the issue was retired Vancouver judge Jerry Paradis, former Vancouver police officer Tony Smith and Chief Constable Ian Mackenzie of the Abbotsford Police Department. |
| May 26, 2007 |
Legalize Pot To Halt Violence, Group Urges
Legalizing drugs as a way to combat the drug trade may go against traditional views, but it's an idea with its share of supporters. A Packet & Times story last week in which a member of the Huronia combined forces drug unit talked about violence in relation to drugs received many responses. One was from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ( LEAP ), an organization comprised of current and former police officers, attorneys, judges and corrections workers. The organization is in favour of legalizing drugs as a way to take the drug trade off the streets and into a regulated environment. "We're not starry-eyed utopians who think we aren't going to have any problems," said LEAP founding secretary John Gayder, who works in law enforcement in Niagara Falls. |
| May 26, 2007 |
Vaporizing The Threat Of A Weed Bust
On a weekend afternoon at the Hot Box Cafe in Kensington Market, three young women are sipping greenish blender drinks. Up on a chalkboard are the house rules, which include "no smoking" and, in big, capital letters, "BYOP." |
| May 23, 2007 |
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Strip Search Deemed Illegal
A woman arrested for drug possession had her drinking and driving charge dismissed in Sarnia court Tuesday because she was the subject of an unlawful police strip search. But she... was fined $600 for possession of cocaine and marijuana that was discovered during her arrest for impaired driving at an April 13, 2006 RIDE check in Sarnia. |
| May 22, 2007 |
Random Searches Tested In Court
Did Police Breach Student's Rights By Visiting School With Drug Sniffer Dog A case that began when officers showed up at a Sarnia high school with "Chief" the drug-sniffing dog is about to test the limits of police powers in Canada. The Crown appeal, to be heard today by the Supreme Court of Canada, will help determine whether police can use sniffer dogs to conduct random searches of schools and other public places, such as parks, sports stadiums, beaches and malls. At issue is whether an unannounced police visit to St. Patrick's high school in November 2002 amounted to an unreasonable search and seizure under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. |
| May 11, 2007 |
RCMP Alleges Pot Politician A Reefer Recidivist
Police charged Ed deVries in Iqaluit with trafficking in a controlled substance, conspiracy to traffic and breach of undertaking, May 2. He was released from custody and will appear in court July 3. Police seized several pounds of marijuana, said Cpl. Randy Slawson. DeVries, 48, recently served a six-month sentence for trafficking marijuana and laundering the proceeds of crime, after police intercepted a filing cabinet in 2003 full of marijuana sent from Ontario to Iqaluit, addressed to a company owned by deVries. |
| May 10, 2007 |
Pot Prince Blesses Herbal Affair
Thousands upon thousands of tokers are demonstrating the normalization of cannabis at the Saturday, May 5, Global Marijuana March and fest with some hardcore puffing.... But the presence of Prince of Pot Marc Emery, facing extradition for selling pot seeds stateside, as lead parade marshall helps ensure the smokefest's hard edge. Emery's canna-celeb cachet has enthusiasts asking for photos and autographs. Here are 20,000 people proving they aren't criminals but a marijuana marketplace requiring regulation and taxation. Pre-march, vendors in the park get lots of excited attention. |