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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 bit of TV coverage on [...]
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 officials last week.
Although agency officials didn’t [...]
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 plants, and 18 immature 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 a medicinal plant [...]
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 Krieger to be released [...]
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 that executes drug traffickers [...]
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 of this year the [...]
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 to have sent Warren William [...]
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 of any type.
The same amount of [...]
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 less than 10 [...]