Marijuana News Articles for October 2004

Jail weighed for pot crusader - Defence compares grower to Mandela
By: Mike McIntyre, Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB), 10-30-04

Heat detectors don't infringe privacy: top court
By: Kirk Makin, Globe and Mail, 10-29-04

Pot harvest promoted at book-store signing
By: Mark Browne, Victoria News - Weekend Edition (CN BC), 10-29-04

Supreme Court limits search of suspects - Refuses to hold re-hearing of Manitoba drug case
By: Mike McIntyre, Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB), 10-29-04

Province developing law to help tackle grow-ops
By:Mia Rabson, Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB), 10-29-04

The politics of pot
By: Kerry Diotte, Edmonton Sun (CN AB), 10-28-04

Hemp is the word - Mike Fata's little idea has grown into a million-dollar operation.
By: Jim Timlick, The Metro (CN MB), 10-27-04

Friend grew pot for dying man
By: Keith Lacey, Northern Life (CN ON), 10-26-04

Mining for Marijuana - RCMP to start combing abandoned mine sites looking for grow ops
By: Kathy Kiel, Nelson Daily News (CN BC), 10-26-04

Court backs pot growers
By: Sam Pazzano, Toronto Sun (CN ON), 10-26-04

Police ask for help in fighting grow ops - Average citizens called best tool in 'community issue'
By: Bruce Owen, Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB), 10-22-04

Breaking the slacker-stoner image
By: Brendan Burrows, Imprint (CN ON Edu), 10-22-04

Drug awareness committee set to lobby gov't
By: Chris Munkedal, The Fort Saskatchewan Record (CN AB), 10-22-04

MARIJUANA 'DECRIM' BILL COMES STAMPED - 'MADE IN THE USA' SAYS NORML CANADA
Source: www.norml.ca, 10-22-04

Low pot priority not discussed
Source: 2004 Hacker Press Ltd., Abbotsford News (CN BC), 10-21-04

Seized dope gear sold to crooks
By: Alan Cairns, Toronto Sun (CN ON), 10-21-04

1,000-plus GTA grow ops - THAT'S ONLY THE POT HOUSES COPS KNOW ABOUT
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON), 10-21-04

Toronto Police say there are telltale signs of a grow house:
By: Sun staff, Toronto Sun (CN ON), 10-20-04

Legal pot murder on justice: T.O.'s top cop
By: Alan Findlay, Ottawa Sun (CN ON), 10-20-04

Will doctors become agents for the cops?
By: Mindelle Jacobs, Edmonton Sun (CN AB), 10-20-04

Grow-ops targeted - Province moves to toughen hydro legislation
Source: Torstar News Service, Metro (CN ON), 10-20-04

Fantino thinks legal pot stinks
By: Cassandra Szklarski, Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB), 10-20-04

Legalize pot, end grow houses - Grow houses are bad, bad places.
Source: Source: The Brock Press (CN ON Edu), 10-19-04

Vancouver pot cafe owner released on bail for second time
Source: Canadian Press, Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC), 10-19-04

'Prince of Pot' plans expansion of Marijuana party into Sask.
By: Darren Bernhardt, StarPhoenix, The (CN SN), 10-19-04

Judge gives pot addict last chance
By: Jane Sims, London Free Press (CN ON), 10-17-04

Pierre Berton offers 40 years of rolling expertise - 'prefer cone-shaped joint'
By: Joseph Brean, National Post (Canada), 10-16-04

Hydroponics grow things 'perfectly'
By, Harley Richards, Red Deer Advocate (CN AB), 10-15-04

Marijuana use, trafficking remains illegal
By: Colleen Greenwood, Summerland Review (CN BC), 10-14-04

Grow-ops in business because of prohibition
By: Jody Pressman, Windsor Star (CN ON), 10-14-04

Pot to be decriminalized, but police get new powers
Author: CanWest News Service, Edmonton Journal (CN AB), 10-14-04

Marijuana bill to kick off Liberal agenda
By: Elizabeth Thompson, Montreal Gazette (CN QU), 10-14-04

Nobody buying prescription marijuana - Dutch health ministry can't unload its stash
Author: Associated Press, Edmonton Journal (CN AB), 10-13-04

Market glut leaves Dutch government awash in pot
Author: Associated Press, Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC), 10-13-04

'Prince of Pot' laments jail life - Towel theft distressing, but Emery enjoyed hotel stay during temporary absence
By: Betty Ann Adam, The StarPhoenix, 10-12-04

Kwinter's marijuana mistake has aides rushing to clear air
Compiled by: Robert Benzie, Richard Brennan, Rob Ferguson and Caroline Mallan, Queen's Park Bureau, Toronto Star (CN ON), 10-11-04

MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVOCATES LIKELY TO GET A BREAK UNDER KERRY - DEMOCRAT SAYS HE WOULD STOP POT CLUB RAIDS PUSHED BY BUSH
By: Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle (CA), 10-10-04

Teens know marijuana is safer to use than alcohol - Re: Teens prefer marijuana to heavy drinking, survey shows, OCT. 7.
By: Russell Barth, Ottawa Citizen (CN ON), 10-10-04

Medical pot backer admits to grow op - Pleads guilty after judge allows drug evidence
By: Mike McIntyre, Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB), 10-09-04

Raid kills mom, pop's grow-op - Police confiscation just 'theft' to neo-hippie farming parents
By: Chris Johnson, Vancouver Sun (CN BC), 10-08-04

Hopes high for legal pot business - Couple blazes trail for growers of compassionate cannabis
By: Petti Fong, Vancouver Sun (CN BC), 10-08-04

Meter readers can help find grow-ops - Kwinter: Bill to let utilities cut power to suspect homes
By: Lee Greenberg and Vito Pilieci, Ottawa Citizen (CN ON), 10-08-04

Bill would let utilities cut off power to those suspected of growing pot
By: Richard Mackie, Globe and Mail, 10-08-04

Mixed messages on the pot issue
By: Tom Fletcher, Smithers Interior News (CN BC), 10-07-04

B.C. town really was going to pot- 100 DRUG COPS RAID SLEEPY SEYMOUR ARM
Source: Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON), 10-07-04

Pot trial up in smoke
By: Adrian Letourneau, Source: Martlet (CN BC Edu), 10-07-04

Canadian kids toking: study
Source: Red Deer Advocate (CN AB), 10-06-04

Canada's youth on top when it comes to pot use, study finds
By: Sheryl Ubelacker, Toronto Star (CN ON), 10-0604

Youth spurn smokes but turn to pot
By: Jennifer Pritchett - Kingston Whig-Standard (CN ON), 10-03-04