Another BC NDP candidate resigns after marijuana video surfaces
The News Review:
- Another BC NDP candidate resigns after marijuana video surfaces
- Gibbs faces ban after cannabis incident
- Dynamic Alert Negotiates With Medical Cannabis Research …
- Ontario. Grow-op bust yields $1.6M in marijuana
- Trucker found with hundreds of pounds of marijuana
- Voters consider allowing marijuana to ease pain
Another BC NDP candidate resigns after marijuana video surfaces
Vancouver Sun, Canada
NDP candidate to step down over drug use this week. The video, apparently recorded in 2005 and still available on Google Video, shows Tousaw taking part with marijuana activist Marc Emery in a competition judging various strains of marijuana. “Every vote counts,” Tousaw says at one point in the video.
Gibbs faces ban after cannabis incident
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
One of his former teachers, Paul Dobson, is not surprised he has found himself in trouble again. “He was the most brilliant sportsman but he came last in every exam he ever wrote,” he said. “He’s not a thinking man at all – he’s a spur-of-the-moment fellow, so if somebody says to him: `Have some cannabis’ he’s not going to think: `Well, what are the consequences, what about this past thing that I’ve got hanging over me. “But he’s a delightful kid – even though he’s 27, he’s still a boy, with all a boy’s thoughtlessness and carelessness, and all a boy’s worry about his exterior, how his hair’s cut or what sunglasses he’s wearing; that sort of childish trivia. ” However, a source close to the South African team who maintains that Gibbs is “held in very high affection” by his team-mates, says there have been signs of a new maturity in the player since his six-month ban, following his admission last year that he had accepted Cronje’s offer of $15,000 to get himself out for fewer than 20 in a one-day international against India in 1996 (he went on to make 74). “He’s changed over the last year.
Dynamic Alert Negotiates With Medical Cannabis Research …
MarketWatch
Cowan is a freelance writer who has been retired for the last 5 years. He is a former (1992 to 1995) CEO of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law (NORML. Cowan also has a BA from Yale University in Economics (1962). Prior to running NORML, Cowan served on the boards of several publicly owned companies and has extensive experience in corporate finance and has held various management positions in manufacturing and natural resources.
Ontario. Grow-op bust yields $1.6M in marijuana
Ottawa Citizen, Canada
Grow-op bust yields $1. 6M in marijuanaCitizen News ServicesPublished:Saturday, September 20, 2008Three people have been charged after York Regional Police confiscated more than 1,600 plants by raiding two marijuana grow operations in Vaughan, north of Toronto. The busts, which took place Thursday, yielded 1,625 plants and just under 22 kilograms of dried marijuana. The value of the seized drugs is about $1. Charged are 45-year-old Xuan Hai Do of Vaughan, Duy Quang Do, 21, of Toronto and 45-year-old Van Thiet Nguyen of Toronto.
Trucker found with hundreds of pounds of marijuana
Canada.com, Canada
inc–>Trucker found with hundreds of pounds of marijuanaLeader-PostPublished:Friday, September 19, 2008REGINA — More than 260 pounds of marijuana were seized by the RCMP during a traffic stop near Swift Current on Wednesday. An eastbound semi was stopped at around 5 p. about 55 km east of the city. During the stop, officers discovered the drugs.
Voters consider allowing marijuana to ease pain
MLive.com, MI
4 whether they want their state greener. Not with an environmental plan but with the leaves of medical marijuana. Proposal 1 would establish marijuana as a legal remedy for some illnesses. Growing, possessing, selling or using marijuana is illegal under state and federal laws. Marijuana alleviates the pain associated with cancer, glaucoma, HIV and AIDS and many other ailments, according to marijuana proponents. Critics say smoking itself is unhealthy and the proposal would encourage recreational use.