Marijuana News Articles for March 2005

Marijuana Party candidate unwelcome at pot meeting
By: Amanda Trott, Aldergrove Star (CN BC), 03-31-05

Coming to a drugstore near you? - Drug companies work feverishly on a spray version of pot for MS sufferers
By: Karen Kleiss, Edmonton Journal (CN AB), 03-28-05

Judge defends pot sentences
By: Frank Peebles, Prince George Citizen (CN BC), 03-29-05

Mounties addicted to anti-pot ideology - Medical marijuana patients offended by RCMP drug-awareness campaign
By: Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun (CN BC), 03-29-05

Hemp: The new soy: Seeds of hemp plant promoted as good source of protein
By: Pamela Durkin, Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC), 03-28-05

Marijuana users likely single, well-educated, study finds
Author: CanWest News Service, National Post (Canada), 03-28-05

Weed ban going to pot
By: Dan Arnold and Robbie Schuett, Calgary Herald (CN AB), 03-27-05

Hey, man, we just sell the lights - Gardening suppliers face increased scrutiny as police try to curb urban pot production
By: Colin Freeze, Globe and Mail (Canada), 03-26-05

Second-hand smoke of the tokin' kind - Munchies aside, Thane Burnett ponders the medicinal effects of cannabis, and ponders and ... zzz
By: Thane Burnett, Toronto Sun (CN ON), 03-25-05

Returning pot activist to U.S. a death sentence, his wife pleads - Steve Kubby, who has cancer, is appealing a decision to refuse him and his family refugee status
By: Gerry Bellett, Vancouver Sun (CN BC), 03-25-05

Giving up the fight on pot not an option
By: Greg Knill, Mission City Record (CN BC), 03-24-05

What's your poison?
By: Nelly Elayoubi, Ottawa Sun (CN ON), 03-24-05

Legalize pot: everyone's smokin' and growin' it already
By: Tim Tyler, Maple Ridge News (CN BC), 03-23-05

Logic goes up in smoke
By: Greg Knill, Surrey Leader (CN BC), 03-23-05

Pot ban still irks athletes - Many say personal habits unchanged, others support new rule
By: Claire Crighton, The Mcgill Daily (CN QU Edu), 03-21-05

Got the munchies?
By: Nicholas Kohler, National Post (Canada), 03-21-05

Scans that read your mind fuel ethical worries
By: Robin McKie - Science Editor, The Observer (UK), 03-20-05

How science is skewed to fuel fears of marijuana - Reports that the drug causes psychosis have been exaggerated
By: Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen (CN ON), 03-20-05

Legalizing pot only answer to nightmare
By: Ian Mulgrew, Windsor Star (CN ON), 03-19-05

Going to pot over pot
By: Boyd's Town, The Outlook (CN BC), 03-17-05

Grass Niagara's new cash crop
By: Christina Blizzard, Toronto Sun (CN ON), 03-16-05

It's time to legalize marijuana - $19.5-billion business in Canada. Prohibition law erodes confidence in police and undermines respect for the courts
By: Ian Mulgrew, Montreal Gazette (CN QU), 03-16-05

Second Thought - The decriminalization strategy
By: Geraint Osborne, The Camrose Booster (CN AB), 03-15-05

Marijuana producer avoids jail - City's first pot grower since RCMP killings sentenced
By: Kevin Martin, The Calgary Sun, (CN AB), 03-12-05

Cookie lady charges dropped - Cannabis-loaded gingersnaps caused stir at Wreck Beach
By: Gerry Bellett, Vancouver Sun (CN BC), 03-12-05

U.S. drug czar links Canadian weed to soaring hospitalization of users
By: Tom Blackwell, Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC), 03-11-05

Canadian pot addicting our youth, U.S. drug czar says
Source: Metro (CN ON), 03-11-05

Canada could be a world leader in smarter drug strategies
Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC), 03-11-05

Marijuana industry booming in Canada - Ontario police have seen a 250 percent increase in indoor pot operations.
By: Susan Bourette, Christian Science Monitor (US), 03-11-05 (Just for a little variety and Southern perspective...check this one!)

Prohibition has not worked here or in U.S.
By: Andrew Holota, Mission City Record (CN BC), 03-10-05

Progressive pot laws a Dutch dream
By: Alanna Goldstein, The Silhouette (CN ON Edu), 03-10-05

Pro-pot advocates at work They pounce on fact there was no grow-op at farm
By: the Editor frankbucholtz, Langley Times (CN BC), 03-09-05

RCMP tragedy must be examined with a cool head
By: Dustin Jay Walker, Jasper Booster (CN AB), 03-09-05

MPs get set for pot fight - Decriminalization, grow-op penalties among legislation's contentious issues
By: Kathleen Harris, Winnipeg Sun (CN MB), 03-09-05

To get rid of grow-ops, try thinking like grown-ups
By: Charles Gordon, Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC), 03-08-05

I was too quick to blame deaths on drugs, RCMP chief admits- Zaccardelli says he condemned grow-ops without knowing full story of ill-fated raid on farm
By: Allan Woods, Ottawa Citizen (CN ON), 03-08-05

Growers demonized, pot patrons complain - Real issue is decriminalization, advocates say
By: Stuart Hunter, National Post (Canada), 03-08-05

What they died for
By: Colby Cosh, National Post (Canada), 03-07-05

Marijuana reform must go further
Source: National Post (Canada), 03-07-05

Pro-pot members criticize media
By: Brookes Merritt, Edmonton Sun (CN AB), 03-06-05

Up in smoke?
Author: Sun Media, Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB), 03-06-05

Decriminalizing pot is the best way to smoke out dangerous criminals
By: Joe Keithley, The Province (CN BC), 03-06-05

Up in smoke
By: Mike Parker, here (Saint John, CN NK), 03-05-05

Pot not the problem here
By: Greg Weston, Ottawa Sun (CN ON), 03-05-05

Grit minister will vote to legalize marijuana
By: Ian Bailey, The StarPhoenix (CN SN), 03-05-05

Weapons rare in marijuana raids, Vancouver police say
By: Maurice Bridge, Vancouver Sun (CN BC), 03-05-05

Massacre changes political tone - Deaths of RCMP officers fuel tough talk against crime, overwhelm other issues
By: Graham Thomson, Edmonton Journal (CN AB), 03-05-05

Newest Liberal lets up on pro-marijuana agenda
By: Allan Woods, Ottawa Citizen (CN ON), 03-05-05

Alcock favours legalized marijuana - Only way to stop criminals, minister says, is for state to control drug traffic
By: Ian Bailey, with files from Anne Dawson and Peter O'Neil, Ottawa Citizen (CN ON), 03-05-05

Pot Penalties driving the violence
Editorial: Matt Bowen, Toronto Star (CN ON), 03-05-05

Growing indoors is easy, inexpensive - Authorities not tipped off if hydro bills are paid
By: Peter Kuitenbrouwer, National Post (Canada), 03-05-05

Museum speaker brews up fascinating look at prohibition
By: Grant Warkentin, Campbell River Mirror (CN BC), 03-04-05

Pot leaders set to battle B.C. Solicitor General
By: Leanna Jantzi, Abbotsford Times (CN BC), 03-04-05

Feds' pot pooh-poohed - About one-third of users send it back
By: Sutton Eaves, The Province (CN BC), 03-03-05

Public convinced gov't will legalize marijuana: Poll
Source: Hacker Press Ltd., Abbotsford News (CN BC), 03-01-05

Newest Liberal set to 'smoke out' support for legalizing marijuana - Former Marijuana Party leader takes his mission mainstream
By: Joe Paraskevas, Ottawa Citizen (CN ON), 03-01-05