Anti-drug Legislation

New Laws Will Have Little Impact On Gangs

jeremiah — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:32:53 -0800

Drug war protesters outside Stephen Harper's roundtable discussion on gang violence in Vancouver. (Photo by Dave Douglas)Premier Gordon Campbell has packed away his Dirty Harry rhetoric, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's police photo ops are over, the cabinet boys are back from their whirlwind tour of Ottawa and the gang violence continues unabated. What did you expect? Nothing announced by the federal government last week will have an impact on the current urban gang problem. Sorry. But true.

Legal Weed: A Pot Of Gold?

karlis — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

The answer to that question has been partly provided by economics professor Jeffrey Miron, whose recent report on the fiscal impact of marijuana prohibition was endorsed by 550 of the world's leading economists, including Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman.

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 whirlwind first week

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

Ms. Loretta NallAs you know, I formally announced my candidacy for Governor on September 29. I am very happy to report that the response to my announcement from the media and the public in Alabama has been remarkable.

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.

Cannabis Culture News Roundup - September 18th 2005

karlis — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Marc Emery speaks in Vancouver on September 10thA look at some of the recent and current events in the cannabis community.

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.

Prepare to be searched

karlis — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

The US constitution contains clear language requiring government officials to obtain a search warrant signed by a judge based on evidence of "probable cause" that the person to be searched has committed a crime.
Here's what the founding document of the United States says:

Med-pot struggles in New England

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

Rhode IslandNEW YORK CITY? This month, Rhode Island could become the 11th American state to legalize medical marijuana. The state Senate voted 28-6 on June 30 to override Gov. Donald Carcieri's veto of a medical-marijuana bill, and the House, which earlier passed the bill by a 52-10 margin, is expected to vote on the override within two weeks.

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.

Help drug police waste time

karlis — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Did you read the article on the Cannabis Culture website that explained how Hitler's five step identification and eradication program that he used against the Jews in Nazi Germany was now being used against the marijuana culture worldwide?

Drug warriors use ecocides & herbicide

karlis — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Indiana Congressman Dan BurtonIndiana Republican Congressman Dan Burton hates marijuana. Just look what it did to his little boy Danny Jr.
Of course, marijuana is a plant that lacks the ability to do anything to anybody on its own. In the case of little baby Burton, the pot plant was more like a rape victim.

Bombed in London

karlis — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

In the olden days, they said the sun never set on the British Empire.
Nowadays, reports a cannabis advocate from the UK, the empire is gone, the sun has long ago set, and most citizens of the emerald isles have lost all faith in their government.

Last week's London bombings are the latest karmic blow to a country that finds itself governed by leaders who seem incapable of telling the truth.

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.

Hard times for High Times

karlis — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

In the retail marijuana paraphernalia business, it's all about pipes, bongs, detox supplies, papers, and lighters. Literature, like marijuana growing books or magazines, such as Cannabis Culture and High Times, are the "window dressing." They call them first Amendment materials, or reading paraphernalia.

A July 4th Moment

karlis — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Thomas JeffersonOn July 4, 1776, a group of farmers, landholders, elites, and rebels published "The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies."

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.

Canadian Med-Pot Regulations change

karlis — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

MMAR Still Unconstitutional After Latest Amendments

Since its inception in 2001, Health Canada's medical marijuana program has failed to fulfill its mandate from the Ontario Supreme Court Parker case to ensure that those who use cannabis as a medicine do not have to choose between their liberty and their health.₁ Only 821 medical cannabis users in Canada, out of an estimated 500,000, are doing so legally.

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.