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Current Affairs 2006 - Cultivation (72 items)
| Feb 18, 2006 | True Justice Is Blind An Orangeville area man is charged after police bust a marijuana grow-op in his home, seizing almost 600 plants. A judge with the Ontario Superior Court later tosses out the charges after expressing criticism of the investigating officer's methods....An Ontario Provincial Police officer identified Nguyen and other Vietnamese Canadian community members through a land title search. He focused on them because of previous incidents of Vietnamese Canadians being involved in grow-ops.
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| Feb 17, 2006 | Medical Marijuana User Clears Foul-Up A licensed medical marijuana user has had a criminal charge for pot production dropped -- and has had all his growing equipment returned by city police -- after a bureaucratic bungle left him without his medication for weeks.
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| Feb 3, 2006 | Marijuana Activists Fuming Over Arrest Medical marijuana advocates are angry over the treatment of a Regina AIDS patient who was arrested after his marijuana licence expired.
Tom Shapiro was handcuffed, along with his wife and son, for four hours while police tried to determine his status in Health Canada's medical marijuana program, said an official with the Canadian AIDS Society.
[Welcome to the new Conservative government and the way things will be done now. Oh, where did some of the biggest websites like Overgrow.com go?} |
| Jan 26, 2006 | Home Grow-Op His Right, Says Spurned Renter A B.C. medical marijuana user has taken his right to grow pot in a rental home to the Human Rights Tribunal.
Vandale Smith told a landlord he intended to grow marijuana in the rental home, and was licensed to do so by Health Canada.
[Discrimination, persecution... all the hallmarks are there] |
| Jan 26, 2006 | Growing For The Neighbourhood The Fraser Institute estimates there are 17,500 grow-ops in the province, part of a multi-billion dollar provincial industry they estimate could translate into $2 billion of annual tax revenue....About 50,000 Canadians are arrested each year for marijuana-related offences and hundreds of thousands of Canadians already have criminal records for simple possession of marijuana.
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| Jan 25, 2006 | CN NS: Pot Charges Result In Challenge To Charter AMHERST -- A Maccan man who says he was growing marijuana to help himself and 300 others with medical conditions is launching a Charter of Rights challenge in the hopes of squashing several drug charges that have been laid against him.... The charter challenge will be filed with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court on March 6.
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| Jan 21, 2006 | CN NS: No Progress For Man Trying To Get Pot Back TRURO -- John Cook will have to wait another couple of months to get his pot back from the authorities.
The medicinal marijuana activist from Halifax has been trying since May 2005 to get a 500-gram package of marijuana -- valued at $7,500 - -- back from police. Officers seized it as he was trying to ship it by bus last January to one of his clients in Springhill.
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| Jan 19, 2006 | 'Legal' Dope Faces Major Medical Hurdle Medicinal marijuana may be legal in Canada, but try finding a doctor who will sign the paper to get it, says a B.C. woman who has been looking for more than a year.
[The public needs to know about the dysfunctional state of the medical cannabis program] |
| Jan 12, 2006 | Family Flees Grow-Rip But Homeowner Gets Charged For The owner of a house on Bridgeport Road received the fright of a lifetime on Friday during a home invasion....The 30-year-old is also the mother of the two toddlers, a boy and a girl ages two and three, who were placed in the care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development after what police believe was an attempted grow-rip....In this case, with Wu being the owner, RCMP investigators may have an opportunity to use proceeds of crime legislation in an attempt to have the home, assessed last year at $472,000, forfeited. ...A new city bylaw empowers the city to bill homeowners the cost of responding to and cleaning up marijuana grow ops.
[Persecute, prosecute, scatter the family.. how much more damage can they impose?] |
| Jan 12, 2006 | Activist Takes Pot Law To Top Court Test of rare defence seeking 'jury nullification';
Although judges are supposed to encourage jurors to stick to the letter of the law, Krieger's lawyer, John Hook, argues the Supreme Court formally recognized jury nullification in the 1988 acquittal of abortion doctor Henry Morgentaler.
At the time, the bench described the jury's power as "the citizen's ultimate protection against oppressive laws and the oppressive enforcement of the law."
[ Usually we don't hear about SCC decisions for at least six months after the hearing.] |
| Jan 10, 2006 | Rent-A-Narc Takes Aim at Grow-Ops The cash-for-tips program is the first in North America to seek private donations from companies and individuals to offset the costs of new police officers, Vern Nielsen, the board's vice-president, said Monday.
Starting in July, three new RCMP constables will work exclusively on Crime Stoppers tips that point to drugs and property crimes in the Central Okanagan. Private donors have contributed more than $60,000 to the $250,000 annual cost of the three officers. A public fundraising campaign begins in February to make up the shortfall.
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| Jan 4, 2006 | Outdoor Pot Farms A Growing Problem Since the start of 2005, police in Ontario have raided 15 farm-sized pot fields, with each property housing between 7,000 and 24,000 plants.
Overall, the Orillia-based OPP Drug Enforcement Section is reporting a 100 per cent increase in the number of plants seized over the past year.
Between January and September, officers dismantled more than 600 grow operations and uprooted in excess of 400,000 plants.
Seizures in areas surrounding Bancroft, Matheson, Iroquois Falls, and Kincardine are up 600 per cent, Elbers said.
Plants cut from the earth by officers wielding hefty steel blades are hauled away by helicopter in massive nets capable of holding 2,500 lbs of the freshly-fallen foliage.
Maybe someday those involved in eradication efforts, will actually stop to think of what they are doing/trying to acheive, etc.. and recognize the futility of it all...but when their jobs depend on not understanding, it will be more of the same until critical mass prevails... |
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