Archive for February, 2007
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Monday, February 26th, 2007Oak Bay News The situation that led to the resignation of an Oak Bay police constable will not lead to any new instruction for officers. “This was a unique situation that would not require any additional training,” said police chief Ben Andersen. Const. Rochelle Eveleigh was disciplined last spring for allegedly alerting a suspect that [...]
LSD Research in Weyburn to Beginning of Psychedelic Era
Monday, February 26th, 2007prarie post The psychedelic era did not begin in New York. Nor did it get its start in London or Paris. Instead, it began in Saskatchewan – Weyburn, to be exact. Psychedelic was a term coined by Dr. Humphry F. Osmond from the use of lysergic acid diethylamide – better known as LSD – in [...]
Grow-Op
Friday, February 23rd, 2007GROW-OP BYLAW GETS FIRST TEST The City of Penticton’s new anti-grow-op legislation is getting its first test after RCMP seized 250 pot plants, weapons and a quantity of dried marijuana from a local home. Under the bylaw, adopted by Penticton council last April, landlords could face a maximum $5,000 fine upon conviction and be liable [...]
Stop Export of “BC Bud”
Friday, February 23rd, 2007Ottawa Citizen U.S. Drug Boss: Canada Urged to Crack Down on Marijuana Use. U.S. “drug czar” John Walters wants Canadian officials to crack down on marijuana use, stop the export of “B.C. bud” to the U.S., and co-operate with extradition requests. That tough approach to drugs was tempered somewhat yesterday by the director of the [...]
Hemp Shop Owner Delays Plans To Open Medicinal Room
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007Brantford expositer Feb 20/07 REGINA – A Saskatchewan hemp shop owner says he will delay opening a smoking room for medical marijuana users until he knows if it’s legal. Dean Foster, who owns Field of Dreams in Regina, had planned to open what he calls a marijuana “inhalation room” last week and even sent out [...]
Marijuana Advocate Ken Gorman Dies in Shooting
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007Feb 18, 2007 4:36 pm US/Mountain Raj Chohan Reporting (CBS4) DENVER A Denver man known as a pioneer in the fight for Colorado’s medical marijuana law was shot and killed Saturday night after his house was broken into. Ken Gorman, an outspoken advocate for legalizing marijuana, grew pot in his home on the 1,000 block [...]
RCMP Storm Six Houses, Bust Grow Operations
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007Abbotsford News Feb 20/07 Mission RCMP stormed six houses Friday in an offensive sweep targeting marijuana grow operations in the district, and uncovered thousands of plants, three young children, and some malnourished animals. The blitz followed the detachment’s Drug Investigative Team executing five other warrants earlier in the week, which resulted in the seizure of [...]
Minor Respitory Complications, No Decrease in Pulmonary Function Associated With Long Term Marijuana Smoking, Study Says
Friday, February 16th, 2007February 15, 2007 – West Haven, CT, USAWest Haven, CT: Long-term smoking of cannabis is associated with an elevated risk of respiratory complications, including an increase in cough, sputum production, and wheezing, but not a decline in pulmonary function, according to a review published in the February issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
Toothbrush Linked Man to Bunker
Friday, February 16th, 2007Winnipegfreepress A used toothbrush proved to be the proverbial smoking gun which links a Manitoba man to a bizarre underground drug lair, the province’s highest court has ruled. Police seized the item during a 2001 raid of eight railway cars which had been buried three metres beneath the earth on a rural property near Dauphin. [...]
Canada Urged To Process Afghan Poppies Into Medicine For Third World
Friday, February 16th, 2007OTTAWA – Canada should spearhead an international effort to license opium production in Afghanistan for peaceful pharmaceutical uses to combat the country’s chronic economic dependence on the illegal narcotic, deputy Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff said Thursday. Ignatieff endorsed the proposal of the controversial London-based think-tank, the Senlis Council, which has called for a pilot project [...]
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