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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Regina Leader-Post, SN 19 Jan 2008 Janet French and Mark Ferguson HEALTH BOARD MEMBER FACES DRUG CHARGES SASKATOON — A member of the Saskatoon Regional Health Authority faces drug charges after police seized more than $200,000 worth of illegal substances Thursday night. Eric Braun, who’s also president of the 25th Street Theatre Centre, covered his [...]
Old-fashioned views on marijuana in desperate need of a reality check
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Sudbury Star, ON 18 Jan 2008 TOO MUCH ENERGY WASTED ON POT PROMOTER Such are the curiosities of the Canadian – and American – justice systems that Marc Emery, Canada’s so-called “prince of pot” is likely headed to jail for longer than some violent offenders. It’s another signal that old-fashioned views on marijuana are in [...]
Court decision could open the door for talented horticulturists
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Edmonton Sun, AB 13 Jan 2008 Brookes Merritt POT ‘NOT EASY TO GROW WELL’ New Ruling Means Sick Get Better Access: Local Marijuana Activist A local marijuana activist says ailing Edmontonians should have easier access to the prehistoric herb now that a “barbaric” federal pot law has gone up in smoke. Former mayoral candidate Dave [...]
Canada will not extradite a suspected murder, but they will extradite a seed salesman
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008National Post, Canada 15 Jan 2008 EMERY SHOULD BE A FREE MAN Drug policy in Canada, particularly as it pertains to marijuana, is stuck in a sort of legal no-man’s-land. Politicians want to appear tough on crime, but at the same time are loath to make criminals out of the hundreds of thousands of Canadians [...]
Emery does the honorable thing
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008National Post, Canada 15 Jan 2008 Ian Mulgrew POT ‘PRINCE’ FAVOURS JAIL TIME IN CANADA VANCOUVER – Marc Emery, Vancouver’s self-styled Prince of Pot, has tentatively agreed to a five-year prison term in a plea bargain over U.S. money laundering and marijuana seed-selling charges. Facing an extradition hearing Jan. 21 and the all-but-certain prospect of [...]
Patients must have a safe, local means to get their medicine, says dispensary owner
Monday, January 14th, 2008The Tribune, CA 11 Jan 2008 Stephen Curran POT DISPENSARY IN TEMPLETON GETS THE GREEN LIGHT FROM COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION Two Delays and Six Months Later, Planners Vote 3-2 to Allow the Controversial Shop to Open It took nearly six months, but the county Planning Commission decided Thursday to allow a controversial medical marijuana dispensary [...]
Health Authority estimates 5,000 people on the Downtown Eastside need treatment
Monday, January 14th, 2008Vancouver Sun, BC 12 Jan 2008 Daphne Bramham A NEVER-ENDING TALE OF POLITICAL NEGLECT Principals Of All Three Levels Of Government Have Pretended For Decades That One Stop-Gap Measure Is A Solution A decade and several elections ago, the three levels of government and their many and varied agencies agreed that an integrated approach was [...]
Man arrested for using marijuana to control painful symptoms of MS
Monday, January 14th, 2008The Sun Times, ON 12 Jan 2008 Scott Dunn MAN ARRESTED IN RAID SAYS POT FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES Case Yet To Go To Court A Meaford man who was busted last week says he’s not a drug trafficker, but was growing and using pot for medicinal purposes – with his doctor’s knowledge but without a [...]
Study group did not view marijuana as a “high risk” drug
Monday, January 14th, 2008Ottawa Sun, ON 12 Jan 2008 Christina Spencer MARIJUANA DAZES DOCS New Study Reveals Doctors’ Knowledge Of Drug Comes Directly From Patients Physicians who approve the use of medicinal marijuana say their clinical knowledge of the drug is hazy and they rely heavily on their patients to help them craft treatment plans, according to in-depth [...]
Ruling opens door for designated producers licensed by HC to supply marijuana for up to 50 patients
Monday, January 14th, 2008Regina Leader-Post, SN 12 Jan 2008 Anne Kyle DECISION PROVIDES OPTIONS Medical marijuana users like Tom Shapiro will now have more choices when it comes to finding a supplier as a result of a Federal Court ruling striking down a key government regulation governing the controversial program. The Regina man, who was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS [...]
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