Archive for June, 2007
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Friday, June 29th, 2007The Province, BC 28 Jun 2007 HEAD-SHOP OWNERS DISMISS CALL TO CRIMINALIZE SALVIA A new push to criminalize a little-known herbal hallucinogenic drug isn’t giving Chris Bennett cold sweats just yet. In fact, the Vancouver head-shop owner says any controversy over salvia divinorum probably will be good for his business. “Whenever I get a little [...]
Illegally in the country and convicted of stealing electricity
Friday, June 29th, 2007Calgary Herald, AB 28 Jun 2007 Jason van Rassel MARIJUANA GROWER DEPORTED Man Connected To More Than A Dozen Grow Ops Authorities have deported a man convicted for his role in a network of more than a dozen Calgary-area marijuana grow ops. Canada Border Services Agency officers handed over Lai Guan Tan, 34, to foreign [...]
Measure G – attempts to control number of plants patients grow
Friday, June 29th, 2007Willits News, CA 27 Jun 2007 Mike A’Dair DELBAR, WATTENBURGER DISAGREE ON POT PLANT LIMITS Supervisors Michael Delbar and Jim Wattenburger could not reach agreement Monday on the number of plants to recommend as the maximum permissible in the committee’s draft medical marijuana possession guidelines resolution. Wattenburger favored setting the limit at 12 mature female [...]
Man says marijuana helped his stomache
Friday, June 29th, 2007Sunstar Dumaguete, Philippines 27 Jun 2007 YC CHAIRMAN SAYS HE DIDN’T KNOW MARIJUANA IS ILLEGAL Ignorance of the law, feigned or not, landed Youth Council chairman Ringi dela Cerna of Dalaupon Tayasan in jail after he was caught growing marijuana in his land. Dela Cerna told police that all he knows is that marijuana is [...]
Grant Krieger is a free man today
Thursday, June 28th, 2007The Calgary Herald, AB June 28, 2007 Judge orders pot crusader Krieger to be released on bail Medicinal marijuana crusader Grant Krieger was expected to be released from jail Wednesday night, after his lawyer succeeded in getting him bail until an appeal of his most recent conviction is heard. Justice Peter Martin ordered the controversial [...]
Cannabis in the kitchen – but of course
Thursday, June 28th, 2007The Associated Press June 27, 2007 Indonesian VP OKs Marijuana As Spice JAKARTA, Indonesia — Marijuana possession should remain a crime in Indonesia, but chefs who use the herb as a traditional way to season curries should not be arrested, the country’s vice president told local reporters. Cooks in parts of Indonesia _ a nation [...]
Patients should be allowed freedom to access better quality cannabis
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Vue Weekly, AB Jun 28, 2007 Connie Howard MS sufferers are still enduring reefer madness News that medical marijuana user and activist Grant Krieger has been sent to prison on a trafficking charge is no real surprise, but it is profoundly disappointing. Krieger has a marijuana licence for his multiple sclerosis (MS), and in March [...]
Judge in favour of harsher punishment
Thursday, June 28th, 2007The Vancouver Province, BC June 28, 2007 Stuart Hunter Judge wishes he could have jailed man over grow-op. Law should provide a deterrent, he says. A West Vancouver man has been handed a conditional sentence with house arrest for his role in a 362-plant marijuana grow-op. Provincial Court Judge Doug Moss said he’d have liked [...]
Sometimes size does matter
Thursday, June 28th, 2007The Burnaby Now, BC 23 Jun 2007 Eric Johnson, Amsterdam ‘JOINT’ COUNT MISLEADING Dear Editor: Re: RCMP target grow ops, Burnaby NOW, June 13: “Cpl. Jane Baptista of the Burnaby RCMP noted the plants would have made more than 192,000 joints.” How does she know? A “joint” is not a standard of weight and measure [...]
Poll favours legalization of marijuana
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Angus Reid Global Monitor: Polls & Research June 28, 2007 Canadians Support Marijuana Legalization (Angus Reid Global Monitor) – Many adults in Canada believe the consumption of cannabis should be permitted by law, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. 55 per cent of respondents think marijuana should be legalized in the country, but [...]
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