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Questions and Answers on Cannabis (39 & 27)

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Mayerthorpe Marijuana Connection Inappropriate, Top Cop Says

karlis — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800

RCMP Commissioner Giuliano (Zack) ZaccardelliFive days after the deaths of four RCMP officers during an auto-part theft investigation, officials are admitting that they made a mistake when they blamed the deaths on pot.

Operation Green Merchant

karlis — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

The DEA believed that High Times magazine, pot seed merchants, indoor pot growers, pot journalists and hydroponics equipment manufacturers were a criminal conspiracy worthy of a nationwide takedown.

Hydropanic

karlis — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

In 1989, the US Drug Enforcement Agency tried to destroy the indoor gardening industry, asserting it was nothing more than a "sleazy front" for marijuana growers.

A Long Walk To Freedom

karlis — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Loretta Nall leaves the Alabama Capitol buildingDear Supporters, Reformers, True American Patriots and Friends...
First, I want to thank each and every one of you who came to my aid a few months ago after the U.S. D.E.A. persuaded Canadian authorities to arrest my close friend and employer Marc Emery.

Emery Fights Back, DEA expands attack

karlis — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Marc Emery, the cannabis seed seller who is viewed as a drug kingpin by the US government, emerged from jail on August 5 a week after Canadian police acting under orders from the DEA kidnapped him from a public street in Halifax on July 29.
He emerged from jail barred from operating his seed business, which has closed permanently, but greeted as a hero-martyr by a burgeoning marijuana activism community energized by the arrest of Emery, his assistant Marijuana Man, and his close associate Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek.

All three have now been freed from jail.

Emery, global war, & sovereignty

karlis — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700

With cannabis seed entrepreneur and political activist Marc Emery rumored to be on the verge of being let out of jail only a few days after being arrested at the request of the DEA, it's time to take note of US government's tendency to arrest, kidnap, imprison, torture, or kill people, regardless of their nationality or guilt, using a variety of time-tested methods for doing so.

BCMP Decries Loss of Canadian Sovereignty

karlis — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Imprisoned activist Marc EmeryToday the offices of the BC Marijuana Party, a registered political party in British Columbia, were caught up in a DEA-instigated raid. The raid is a dramatic example of the loss of Canadian sovereignty to the US drug war.

Ending fear

karlis — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Steven McWilliams"I love my country, but I fear my government."

"You'll get my gun when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of it."
Every time I travel to the United States, I see those words on bumper stickers adorning motor vehicles.

Sex, Drugs, and Activism

karlis — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

William Perry at his storefrontTalking to people who just got arrested happens too frequently when you're a pot journalist, and it's usually disheartening. They're angry, depressed, and afraid.
But talking to William Perry last week after police in Maple Ridge, British Columbia raided his Guilty Pleasures sex gear and pot paraphernalia shop was inspiring.

Tremors follow Raich ruling

karlis — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Before the raid...A few weeks ago, Cannabis Culture publisher Marc Emery was excitedly putting together a major series of articles devoted to medical marijuana.

Vancouver: The New Cannabis Reality

karlis — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Vancouver, Canada ? home of an expanding network of multi-media reality artists and alternative activist-entrepreneurs who blend wild life with marijuana politics.
Consider a hit television show on the internet network that calls itself "Pot-TV." Originating from a basement studio in downtown Vancouver, the network broadcasts guerilla video about the culture of cannabis, including shows that tell people how to grow the illegal plant.

UK cannabis opponents go bonkers

karlis — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

British Prime Minister Tony BlairAt the beginning of May, we reported that British Prime Minister Tony Blair, faced with a tough re-election campaign, was making troublesome noises about reversing a statutory reclassification of cannabis implemented by his government in January, 2004.

Boje free ? for now

karlis — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Renee Boje with son ShivaCannabis activist and political refugee Renee Boje surrendered herself to the custody of Canadian authorities Friday morning, June 17, not knowing if a US extradition request would be honored and she would be taken away from her husband, son, and friends in Vancouver where she has lived for nearly eight years.

Pot refugee granted bail in B.C.

karlis — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Vancouver ? A California woman who has been denied refugee status and ordered to return to the United States to face marijuana charges was granted bail on Friday as she fights her extradition.
Renee Boje's case was adjourned until Sept. 30 in B.C. Supreme Court.

Ms. Boje, who fled to British Columbia in 1998, lives in Vancouver with her Canadian pot-activist husband Chris Bennett and their child.

Renee Boje ordered out of Canada

karlis — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Renee BojeIn the heady days after Californians passed Proposition 215, the precedent-setting medical marijuana law, a young artist named Renee Boje worked on cannabis literature and activism with medical cannabis advocates Peter McWilliams and Todd McCormick in Southern California.
Today, nearly ten years later, Boje is a pawn in the drug war rivalry between the United States and Canada.

Grow guru on world's most progressive TV show

karlis — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Grow guru Ed RosenthalCannabis Culture is the world's best marijuana magazine in part because the solar system's most experienced cultivation expert and pot book author, Ed Rosenthal, provides exclusive ganja growing information in every issue of the legendary magazine.

Alabama's pot prisoners

karlis — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Greetings Cannabis Culture readers. Some of you will know me as the President of the US Marijuana Party, and others will recognize me as one-time anchor for Pot TV News. I'm Loretta Nall, and I became involved in drug policy reform in Alabama in September of 2002.

Lynn Wood jailed

karlis — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Jim and Lynn WoodToday, Lynn Wood, formerly of HEMP NB & The Cannabis Caf?, was jailed immediately for one year following her sentencing in a St. John courtroom. Lynn Wood is several months pregnant and has three children with husband Jim Wood.

The passion of Corby

karlis — Mon, 30 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Schapelle Corby: languishing in an Indonesian prison over potSchapelle Corby, 27, is a telegenic symbol of the global drug war's ultimate goal: to kill people who use plant drugs, and to kill their plants.

Beware new federal drug laws

karlis — Fri, 27 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Cannabis Culture's journalists are psychic.

A couple of years ago, they warned you about the US Government's Operation TIPS and VIPS.

Drug war in Afghanistan

karlis — Thu, 26 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

AfghanistanWill we ever suck from the hose of an Afghani desert opium hookah?

Will we again see the gooey-black sheen of traditional Afghani hashish, available as it used to be, in Dutch cannabis coffeeshops?

Victory -- marijuana will remain legal in Alaska!

karlis — Tue, 17 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

We did it! The Marijuana Policy Project and our allies in Alaska have successfully beaten back efforts to re-criminalize marijuana in Alaska. After months of round-the-clock lobbying and grassroots organizing, marijuana will remain safe and legal in Alaska.

Death for pot

karlis — Mon, 16 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Somewhere in Bali a young Australian woman sits alone in a cold, dark cell, awaiting a decision on her execution.
27-year-old Schapelle Leigh Corby has been charged with smuggling marijuana into the Indonesian island of Bali, and now Indonesian authorities wish to see her murdered, shot to death by a firing squad of 12 men. Corby's life and the lives of those who love her have become a living nightmare.

North American lockdown

karlis — Thu, 12 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Travel, driving, voting, banking and virtually every other part of American life will be part of a government surveillance database if "REAL ID" legislation created by US Republican James Sensenbrenner becomes law.
And travelers between US and Canada will be running a gauntlet of government officials, military soldiers, police and citizen vigilantes if right-wing members of Congress and the US public get their way.