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From The Media Awareness Project - Canadian News

    • BC: PUB LTE: Editorial's Criticism Of Cheech And Chong
    • Kamloops Daily News, 23 Jul 2010 - I am disappointed to see educated reporters like yourselves jump to conclusions so quickly and fail to see the bigger picture (Cheech and Chong, Just Say So Long, We Say editorial, July 20). First, you branded two extremely successful international comedians simply as stoners and as such took the same ignorant route that our prime minister and policy makers have for the last 50 years.
    • BC: PUB LTE: It's Time To Legalize And Tax Marijuana
    • Nanaimo Daily News, 30 Jul 2010 - Re: 'Nanaimo needs supervised drug site, says researcher' (Daily News, July 27) While the benefits of supervised drug sites are understandable, I think they are a band-aid on a larger problem and our members of Parliament need to reassess a "war on drugs" that is being lost.
    • NK: PUB LTE: Charge Against Guy With Prescription For Pot
    • Daily Gleaner, 30 Jul 2010 - Re: Medical marijuana I read with interest the story about the case in the Woodstock area of Todd Leclair standing trial for marijuana possession despite having been issued a prescription for the drug for medical use.
    • NK: PUB LTE: Marijuana Isn't A Narcotic
    • Daily Gleaner, 30 Jul 2010 - Re: Drug case in Woodstock Your readers may wish to note that cannabis, contrary to the story of July 27 by Bryan Tait, is anything but a narcotic. This misinformation clouds the perception of Earth's most versatile and useful plant. No other medicine approaches its capacity to maintain or restore health.
    • BC: LTE: Use Of Marijuana Must Be Stopped
    • Nanaimo News Bulletin, 29 Jul 2010 - To the Editor, Re: If gambling is good, why not legaize pot?, Letters, July 27. Chris Foulds would have us believe marijuana is harmless.
    • BC: Crack Cocaine Addicts Just Can't Quit
    • Campbell River Mirror, 30 Jul 2010 - Even if they wanted to, the city's crack cocaine users can't "get clean" because there are few treatment programs available. The findings were released in a new study which relyed on interviews with crack users in Campbell River, Nanaimo and Prince George.
    • ON: PUB LTE: Marijuana Serves A Medical Purpose
    • Guelph Mercury, 28 Jul 2010 - Re: The Cannabis Club of Guelph had to suspend its public service to its patients because of the police raids earlier this year. My wife has fibromyalgia and for years her quality of life was not very good at all. There was a point when she took my kids tobogganing then she could not move for almost three days. She would have sensory overload and not be able to listen to her children speak to her without extreme pain. She could not use stairs more than a couple of times a day and my kids and I pretty much lost our wife and mother for years battling this disease.
    • ON: One Pot Club Raid Case Withdrawn
    • Guelph Mercury, 29 Jul 2010 - GUELPH - The Crown has withdrawn its case against one of four people charged with drug trafficking when a Guelph compassion club was raided by police this spring. On May 6, 31-year-old Nicole Freeborn was arrested and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking after city police searched the Medical Cannabis Club of Guelph on Baker Street, as well as five other addresses on Dublin Street, London Road, Arrow Road and Quebec Street.
    • BC: LTE: Your Home, Your Rights (1 of 3)
    • Monday Magazine, 29 Jul 2010 - Re: "Pot Shot" July 22-28 Unfortunately, the unnecessary and abusive eviction process inflicted on subsidised housing resident Christina Goluch is not unique. Too often, subsidised housing residents living on low income or suffering from some form of disability suffer bullying abuse or have their rights trampled by uncaring or over-zealous social housing agencies. Often, the victim is medically challenged or a senior.

From The Media Awareness Project - Cannabis Canada

    • ON: One Pot Club Raid Case Withdrawn
    • Guelph Mercury, 29 Jul 2010 - GUELPH - The Crown has withdrawn its case against one of four people charged with drug trafficking when a Guelph compassion club was raided by police this spring. On May 6, 31-year-old Nicole Freeborn was arrested and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking after city police searched the Medical Cannabis Club of Guelph on Baker Street, as well as five other addresses on Dublin Street, London Road, Arrow Road and Quebec Street.
    • ON: Synthetic Marijuana Causing Outcry
    • Toronto Sun, 29 Jul 2010 - BOSTON - An herb and chemical blend dubbed K2 that is sold legally in the U.S. as incense but produces a marijuana-like high when smoked is landing a rising number of people in emergency rooms, doctors said. The surge in calls to poison control centers across the country has spurred 10 states to ban K2 and other similar brands of so-called synthetic marijuana products.
    • BC: Cops Collar Hundreds Of Stoned Motorists This Year
    • Vancouver Courier, 28 Jul 2010 - Majority Of Suspensions Involve Marijuana And Cocaine More than 240 motorists in the city were given 24-hour roadside suspensions this year for suspicion of driving a vehicle while under the influence of drugs.
    • ON: OPP Haul Early Harvest
    • Packet & Times, 28 Jul 2010 - What they saw was alarming, and apparently, a little out of season. An OPP helicopter swooped down from the skies to deliver a big net of marijuana to officers on the ground, who loaded the crop into a van parked at a peaceful sideroad in Severn Township.
    • BC: Couple Facing Drug Charges Won't Be Prosecuted
    • Terrace Standard, 28 Jul 2010 - Charges against a couple facing drug charges in court for the past two years have been stayed. Diana and Jeffrey Kennedy had their charges stayed after their defence lawyer, Don Skogstad of Nelson, made a charter of rights argument which questioned the police execution of the search warrant.
    • BC: Column: Examine Idea Of Marijuana Legalization
    • Nanaimo Daily News, 26 Jul 2010 - Forget the collapse of the housing market in the United States -- and recent statistics show it remains in the tank -- which means B.C.'s moribund forest industry will remain on life support, voters in California this fall could spell the death knell for a thriving B.C. industry. It looks as though some Californians have taken legendary Reggae singer Peter Tosh's song 'Legalize It' literally and are running with it. If passed in November, a state-wide voter initiative would legalize the cultivation, possession and sale of marijuana.
    • BC: Editorial: Let's Put Fighting Drugs In Some Context
    • Nanaimo Daily News, 26 Jul 2010 - Growing marijuana remains a crime in Canada. Under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act it is listed as one of the substances that it is illegal to cultivate. In B.C., enforcing that particular part of the CDSA has become a herculean task. Never mind Gabriola Island, where the RCMP are asking for help from the public in busting those dealing in drugs of all types; all over B.C. the reality is that growing marijuana is for the most part easy and highly lucrative.
    • BC: Ban-Happy Town Targets Medicinal Marijuana
    • Globe and Mail, 20 Jul 2010 - Pitt Meadows Mayor Says B.C. Community Tired of Grow-Op Houses Burning Down and Threatening Homes The bucolic Fraser Valley community of Pitt Meadows may be the ban-happy capital of Canada. The list of outlawed activities in a place where Ipsos Reid found 98 per cent of residents pleased with their quality of life is long and wide.
    • BC: Federal Exemptee Fights Weed-Smoke Eviction
    • Monday Magazine, 22 Jul 2010 - FEDERAL EXEMPTEE FIGHTS WEED-SMOKE EVICTION An Esquimalt woman says a local social housing organization is trying to evict her from her home of two-and-a-half years for using cannabis to treat her chronic conditions.