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Ban-happy town targets medicinal marijuana

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 8:06pm
By: Rod Mickleburgh , Globe and Mail
 
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.
 
Be gone massage parlours, X-rated video stores, strip joints, hydroponic retail outlets, nuclear power plants, used car lots, and even giant advertising icons perched on top of buildings. Existing municipal bylaws ban them all.
 
Now, in a move considered a first in Canada, the municipality is set to add yet another activity banned within its borders – the production of marijuana for medical purposes.
 

B.C. heroin addict returns to street after province seizes her home

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 4:29pm
By John Colebourn, Vancouver Province
 
VANCOUVER -- On a crisp March morning, Marianne Christine Sullivan sits on a dock in East Vancouver and talks about being homeless and broke after the government of British Columbia took her $562,000 home under civil-forfeiture legislation.
 
She says it has been days since she had her last fix of heroin. With a clear head, she now faces the fact she has lost her home because of legislation being used by B.C. police departments to get rid of troublesome households, and she lives and works on the streets.
 

Tales of waste and futility

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Wed, 12/23/2009 - 7:33pm
By Kirk Tousaw
 

CBC News - British Columbia - Drug ingredients seized in B.C. bust

The RCMP said the year-long investigation culminated in the seizure of about 20 barrels of the chemicals needed to make the drugs, as well as 14,000 ecstasy pills, more than $250,000 in cash and seven guns.

Seven men and two women ranging in age from 32 to 53 from Richmond, Vancouver and Abbotsford could face a variety of charges including conspiracy to produce a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of trafficking. Link to story here.

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