Archive for June, 2009
Outdoor pot crops thrive on Vancouver Island
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009The Daily News
http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/news/story.html?id=f9c58899-c6c7-4b16-a02e-8f0c064243e8
Outdoor pot crops thrive on Vancouver Island
Dustin Walker, Daily News
Published: Saturday, June 20, 2009
An RCMP helicopter pilot stands in a marijuana
crop field found on Vancouver Island.
Photograph by : Canwest News Service
Ideal weather, forestry layoffs and a crackdown on indoor marijuna-growing operations may motivate more people to plant crops deep within the woods [...]
Cabinet tweaks medical marijuana rules after losing court case
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009Court challenge aims to legalize all cannabis use
Advocates say previous rule a ‘mockery’
Shannon Kari, National Post
Published: Monday, June 01, 2009
Mario Anzuoni, Reuters
Health Canada has faced court challenges over medical marijuana eight times and has lost all of them. In each case the decision came because the court felt regulations were too restrictive for those …
Medical [...]
Emery Ready To Go To Jail
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009B.C. judge agrees to delay of Marc Emery U.S. extradition hearing
By Keith Fraser, The Province
May 25, 2009 1:04 PM
Pot activist Marc Emery, pictured lighting up at Vancouver’s 4/20 rally on April 20, has been
granted another delay to his extradition hearing over U.S. charges related to the sale of
marijuana seeds.
Photograph by: Jack Simpson file, for The [...]
Fight C-15: It Is Almost Law
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009For more info on C-15 see:
http://forums.cannabisculture.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1506559&page=all
C-15 has been passed and is now going to the Senate. This happened today.
http://parl.gc.ca/40/2/parlbus/chambus/senate/deb-E/043db_2009-06-09-e.htm?Language=E&Parl=40&Ses=2
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
Bill to Amend—First Reading
The Hon. the Speaker informed the Senate that a message had been
received from the House of Commons with Bill C-15, An Act to amend the
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act [...]