Archive for March, 2008
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008Thu, 28 Feb 2008 Review, The (CN ON) Corey Larocque CRIME BILL’S PASSAGE REMOVES ONE CONSERVATIVE CONFIDENCE ISSUE Justice Minister Threatened Election If Senate Delayed Bill Past Saturday Two out of three ain’t bad for the federal Conservative government which, two weeks ago, faced a possible defeat over three different issues. But Royal Assent for [...]
Act allows authorities to inflict punishment on the parents and the snatched child
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Wed, 27 Feb 2008 North Shore News (CN BC) Jerry Paradis ALBERTA: THE NANNY STATE Ever thought what it would be like to have your child taken forcibly from your home? Not by kidnappers, but by agents of your provincial government? Not many people have. However, as an ex-toiler in the vineyards of the Goddess [...]
Police team up with Hydro to bust grow ops
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Tue, 26 Feb 2008 Comox Valley Echo (CN BC) Philip Round POWERFUL DRIVE TO UNCOVER POT GROW OPS B.C. Hydro Sharing Electricity Use Details With City And RCMP High Hydro readings are helping pinpoint properties in Courtenay where illegal grow-op activity could be taking place. The electricity stats are powering a drive to track down [...]
Lack of education has led hemp to be banned
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Tue, 26 Feb 2008 Daily Campus, The (UConn, CT Edu) Greg Pivarnik HEMP PROHIBITION DOES NOTHING BUT HARM In order to fully understand the opposition to marijuana reform, it is important to investigate who already benefits from the status quo prohibition. Besides recreation, there are many other uses for marijuana. Many people benefit, while many [...]
Patients can’t find a doctor who will endorse their MMAD application
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Wed, 27 Feb 2008 Monday Magazine (CN BC) Jason Youmans DOUBTFUL DOCTORS Since the current incarnation of Canada’s medical marijuana program was established, doctors have been forced by Health Canada to act as sentinel for a product whose complexities, methods of delivery and side effects they have little firsthand information-a situation that leaves many physicians [...]
MMAD was found unconstitutional
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Wed, 27 Feb 2008 Monday Magazine (CN BC) Jason Youmans ILLUSION OF ACCESS It is only thanks to favourable decisions by a handful of committed lawyers and sympathetic judges that Canada boasts even the anaemic national medical cannabis program it has today. The slow march toward establishing the rights of the sick to access therapeutic [...]
Barriers remain once a Personal-use Production Licence is issued
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Wed, 27 Feb 2008 Monday Magazine (CN BC) Jason Youmans TICKET TO TOKE . Authorization to Possess ( ATP ): Grants licencee per-mission to possess an amount of marijuana consistent with the recommendations of the endorsing physician. . Personal-use Production Licence ( PPL ): A personal use production licence permits the holder to legally cultivate [...]
Ottawa wages war on sick citizens
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Wed, 27 Feb 2008 National Post (Canada) Brian Preston EIGHT YEARS OF REEFER MADNESS Why Can’t Ottawa Deliver a Sensible, Humane Medicinal-Marijuana Program? Jim Kerr was making lunch one Friday afternoon last month when seven police officers burst in, put him up against the wall and handcuffed him. “I have multiple sclerosis and grow marijuana [...]
Will Canada regulate where medical marijuana can be used?
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Tue, 26 Feb 2008 Canadian Champion, The (CN ON) Tim Whitnell MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE LAWS GONE TO POT? Turner Pushing For Reform Of Law Surrounding Use In Public Halton’s Member of Parliament has convinced Canada’s health minister to re-examine the use of medical marijuana in public places following recent news reports of a Burlington bar [...]
Credibility of information used in search warrant open to question
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Mon, 25 Feb 2008 Law Times (CN ON) Ron Stang CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE LAUNCHED OVER SEARCH WARRANT WINDSOR – Windsor defence lawyer Frank Miller has brought a constitutional challenge over the way Windsor police put together search warrants in drug cases, citing s. 8 of the Charter, which protects against unreasonable search or seizure. Miller brought [...]
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