Guelph Mercury, 29 Jul 2010 - GUELPH - The Crown has withdrawn its case against one of four people charged with drug trafficking when a Guelph compassion club was raided by police this spring.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.
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.
CN 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.
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.
CN 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.
CN 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.
CN 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.
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.
CN 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.