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EDMONTON -- Usually, says Don Dickson of the Calgary Real Estate Board, only the Christmas lunch is so well-attended. But last month, 526 real estate agents showed up at one of the board's seminars. The topic? Marijuana grow-ops. "It was pretty amazing," said Mr. Dickson, president of the board. "It's obviously a topic of great concern." Real estate agents aren't the only ones alarmed by the increasing number of quiet, suburban homes being used to grow lucrative crops of high-quality marijuana. No longer solely the concern of law enforcement, the rapid spread of such grow-ops is changing the way agencies from insurers to municipalities do business. "What origin…
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Ottawa ? The federal election will kill the bill to decriminalize marijuana, leaving one of Jean Chrétien's legacy issues out in the cold and pot smokers still facing potential jail terms, government insiders say. The controversial legislation, which is awaiting a final vote in the House of Commons, will not make it through Parliament in the one week left in the session before Prime Minister Paul Martin is expected to drop the writ to begin an election campaign. The proposed law, Bill C-10, would have removed jail terms for the simple possession of less than 15 grams of marijuana. Those caught with pot in that quantity would have faced the equivalent of a traffic tick…
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Costa Rican National Police have seized 2,475 kg of compressed marijuana in the country's southern locality, the authorities said on Friday. The drugs were found on Thursday night on a truck parked on theoutskirts of San Vito de Coto Brus. Informed by confidential clues and reports, police found 42 plastic sacks covered by sacks of organic fertilizers on the truck.Each of the 42 sacks had 50 packages with one kg of marijuana each. Besides, the police found another 15 sacks with 25 packages with one kg each. The seized compressed marijuana totaled 2,475 kg, valued over 10.6 million US dollars in the national market. Two Costa Ricans, Valverde Palma, 28, and …
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Police in Chhattisgarh claim to have seized 24 kg of marijuana from the vehicle of former state minister and tribal leader Manoj Mandawi. The banned narcotic was found hidden in Mandawi's Tata Sumo vehicle Thursday during a routine check in Charama in the tribal district of Kanker, 210 km from here. Four people, including the former Congress minister's driver, have been arrested. According to Kanker's Deputy Superintendent of Police Dasrath Dekate, police were trying to ascertain Mandawi's role in marijuana smuggling as the seized vehicle was registered under his name. "It is a very serious matter and we will not allow anyone to go scot-free," Dekate told IANS. …
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Hong Kong customs officers on Friday seized 1.45 million HK dollars worth of suspected cannabis resin from an incoming passenger at the Hong Kong International Airport, the HK customs authority said Saturday. About 12:40 p.m. Friday, Customs officers intercepted and searched a 30-year-old Nepalese woman, who had arrived from Katmandu, Nepal. The officers, with the assistance of an Ion Scanner, found 9.1 kg of cannabis resin inside her luggage and theheels of her shoes. The woman will later be charged with trafficking in dangerous drugs and will appear in Tsuen Wan Magistrates' Court on Monday. Under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, the maximum penalty for drug traf…
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A police swoop on a Hawke's Bay property yesterday led to the seizure of several barrels of cannabis with an estimated street value of "several hundred thousand" dollars. The potent cannabis heads were found packed in plastic barrels and hidden in a horse float on the rural property at Fernhill, 10km northwest of Hastings. "It was a substantial haul. We are talking multiple kilos of the stuff here," Detective Senior Sergeant Bill Gregory of the Napier CIB said. The swoop was part of a day-long operation by a 17-strong team of detectives and uniformed police, raiding 10 properties in Napier and its environs. Three men were arrested and charged with cultivation …
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Cannabis remains Northland's drug of choice despite the prevalence of methamphetamine, a senior police officer says. Inspector Rex Knight said pure methamphetamine, or P, was popular now, but any police team that ignored cannabis "does so at its peril". Mr Knight is acting Whangarei and Kaipara area commander, and for the past 4-1/2 years has been Northland road policing manager and operations manager. On Wednesday he presented a monthly report on Whangarei's crime scene to the Whangarei District Council. Mr Knight said that while P was very popular in Northland, there was an increasing trend back to very large cannabis plantations of very large plants. "Me…
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Legalization of marijuana will be a hot issue in the looming federal election, according to the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. Kirk Tousaw, the BCCLA's policy director, pointed out that for the first time in Canadian history, one of the three major political parties has pot legalization as one of its election platforms. "The NDP wants pot legalized -- they say it should be available in licensed outlets," said Tousaw, whose organization is holding a conference Saturday to examine how Canada would look in a post pot-prohibition era. The Liberal Party is seeking to reduce penalties for pot possession, while the Conservative Party wants to retain the status quo. …
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Marijuana users chanted "we love weed" as they marched through the streets of downtown Toronto on Saturday, smoking their hearts out and calling for Ottawa to legalize the drug. About 1,000 demonstrators rallied at the Ontario legislature and later marched through some of Toronto's busiest streets with a police escort. They were led by Alison Myrden, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and is wheelchair bound. She has long fought for legalized marijuana to ease her pain. Protest is important to raise public awareness about the medicinal benefits of marijuana, Myrden said. "People don't understand that sick people still don't have an affordable quality sourc…
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The Republican leader of the State Senate said yesterday he was warming to legalizing the use of medical marijuana, opening the door for movement on an issue that has been stalled here for years. The new sentiment from Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Brunswick) came on a day when Assembly Democrats offered a measure that earned support from key medical and health associations and after TV personality Montel Williams met with legislative leaders. Bruno said his change of heart may be in part due to his own bout with prostate cancer last year. "Your life experiences can add to how you legislate," Bruno said, adding that he would closely review the measure. The…
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Marijuana Plants Found Growing At Fla. Day Care POSTED: 6:03 am EDT May 3, 2004 UPDATED: 6:51 am EDT May 3, 2004 FORT MYERS -- Authorities in the Fort Myers area are looking for the operator of a local day-care center after marijuana plants were found growing on property. Lee County deputies said they initially went to Cynthia Boesenberg's house to find someone who was wanted on felony warrants. However, they discovered several marijuana plants growing in her back yard. Investigators got a search warrant and eventually found evidence indicating that the illegal drug was being sold from the home. Most of the family was spending the weekend in the Florida Keys…
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BARDSTOWN, Ky. -- A man and woman were arrested after an employee at a photo lab saw pictures of a toddler posing with a pot pipe. John R. Gray, 20, and Elizabeth Lyvers, 24, were charged with first-degree unlawful transaction with a minor, a felony. Police also charged Gray with one count of marijuana possession and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia. The photographs appeared to show Lyvers's son, who is about three, smoking marijuana from a water pipe, authorities said. Police said the couple maintain the water pipe did not contain marijuana. Police searched the couple's home last Sunday after the Kroger photo lab in Bardstown turned over the film an…
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TWO of Scotland’s leading private schools have admitted relaxing the ‘zero tolerance’ approach to drugs that has seen dozens of pupils across the country expelled in recent years. Loretto and Merchiston Castle say they no longer automatically throw out youngsters caught in possession of drugs provided they agree to random tests in future. The schools deny taking a liberal stance, insisting the move is an ‘enlightened’ reaction to the modern day reality of young people and drug use. Most private schools have adopted an increasingly hard line in recent years, and there have been several occasions where pupils were expelled for possession of cannabis. But there i…
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Over 600 South Africans are marching in Cape Town to call for the legalisation of cannabis and highlight its potential use in low-cost housing and medicine, the main organiser said. Andre du Plessis on Saturday said the aim was also to highlight the many uses of cannabis and stressed that the vast majority of the marchers were professionals and not beatniks or hippies. Cannabis, or marijuana, is colloquially called "grass" in several countries. "We will be discussing cannabis and its potential in South Africa's industrial sector, in agriculture and in health and from the criminal and police perspective." Du Plessis, an information technology engineer, said he had …
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Blair chilled out as film director smoked cannabis: report LONDON (AFP) - US film director Robert Altman told a British newspaper that he smoked cannabis in front of British Prime Minister Tony Blair without any objection at a rock star's party. In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Robert Altman -- the 79-year-old director of "Gosford Park" and "Short Cuts" -- said he lit up while dining at rock star Dave Stewart's mansion but added that Blair did not partake. The pair met during Blair's first term of office while the veteran director was in Britain filming the oscar-winning "Gosford Park". "We were sitting there smoking grass. He was sitting across from m…
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