POLITICAL ACTIVIST JACOB HUNTER ARRESTED AT JUSTICE MINISTER'S OFFICE
10 June 2010
For Immediate Release
Jacob Hunter, the Foundation's Policy Director, was arrested today at Justice Minister Rob Nicholson's constituency office in Niagara, ON. Mr. Hunter was there as part of a continuing series of protests being held at the offices of Conservative Members of Parliament by supporters of Marc Emery, a Canadian citizen a political activist recently extradited from Canada to the United States. Another individual was apparently also arrested at the scene. This is the first protest at which arrests have been made.
As reports of my arrest showed up online on Monday night, Marc Emery noted that "It wasn't about postering. It was a warrant for production & trafficking."
Well, I was arrested while putting up posters, just not for putting up posters, as some have suggested...
I was out for two hours that night, with my ladder, bucket of wood glue and water, a paint brush, and my bag of posters.
REGINA — Police recently had to return marijuana grow equipment they seized from a licensed producer during a large drug bust in southern Saskatchewan in early December.
Alida resident Darcy Germain, 41, was one of 28 people arrested as part of a lengthy police investigation that targeted drug trafficking in Estevan and surrounding areas. Germain — who says he grows and uses marijuana for chronic pain — was charged with two counts of drug trafficking.
He isn't facing charges in relation to drug production, which is why an Estevan Provincial Court judge agreed on March 8 to issue an order for the return of Germain's property, said the Estevan lawyer who represented Germain at that court appearance.
Today should turn out to be a very good St. Paddy's Day for Colin Olmstead, since he'll be getting a whole lot of green from the Arapahoe County DA's office -- and by green, we mean two pounds of pot.
Olmstead had the marijuana confiscated in Arapahoe County over a year ago during a routine traffic stop. His lawyer, Rob Corry, says he was in the process of delivering the pot to a dispensary called Cherry Creek Health, but didn't say anything about that to the officers at the time out of respect for his patients' confidentiality.
Medical marijuana user Paul McClain said he is right.
"If, according to the law, that it works," he said, "then I'm going to be exonerated."
Springfield police Sgt. Tom Borchers said he is right.
"Well it's our belief that he'll be convicted based on the definition of the law," Borchers said.
McClain goes to trial next month on a ticket for illegal marijuana possession. Officers found a sack of weed and pipes in his backpack during a search last month at the Springfield Justice Center, the city's police station.
At the root of the dispute: Can Oregon's 26,000 registered medical marijuana users carry the drug with them wherever they go?
PROVIDENCE — They are on the front lines of the marijuana debate, the ones who decide who should be allowed to smoke, ingest or inhale what is still an illegal drug in Rhode Island without fear of arrest.
They include neurologists, oncologists, infectious disease specialists, more than one family clinic doctor, the medical director of a drug-abuse addiction center and a psychiatrist running for mayor of Providence who is a conservative on most other issues, but not the politics of marijuana for a patient prone to nausea, anxiety and panic attacks.
Altogether, 355 Rhode Island doctors have signed state forms asking the Department of Health to issue marijuana-use cards to at least one of their patients.
But 21 of those doctors account for more than a third of the 1,347 medical marijuana cards issued so far, according to the Department of Health.
Original post, Wednesday, March. 3, 4:22 p.m. (updates below): I’ve just been informed by Candi Cooper that the Williamson County Sheriff’s Department raided the Never Get Busted headquarters in Travis County at approximately 6 p.m. on Tuesday night. Barry Cooper has been taken into custody.
Officers allegedly seized their computers, phones and other digital media. Barry is allegedly being charged with a misdemeanor offense. Candi claimed the charge is making a false report to a police officer, in relation to a sting operation her husband recently carried out against an officer in Liberty Hill, Texas.
In his sting operation against Liberty Hill Police Captain George Nassour, Cooper did make someone in Cooper’s crew made anonymous phone calls regarding a suspicious package possibly containing drug paraphernalia, as a way of testing the officer to see if he would steal the money. Cooper alleges that Nassour did in fact steal $45 from the trap bag, thereby committing a felony by tampering with evidence. The Liberty Hill Police Chief confirmed that an investigation was underway following a confrontation with Cooper.
A very close friend was arrested for possessing a small twig today. Umm..yes, you read correctly, a twig. Her car was impounded, she was frisked, brought in for questioning, embarrassed, fined thousands of dollars, detained for hours, her vehicle was illegally searched for 20 minutes and nothing found. She was fingerprinted twice and called derogatory names all because she had a non-smokeable twig from a naturally occurring plant, called Marijuana.
Clearly our tax dollars were hard at work for this huge bust. Quite worth paying three police offers and tying up the court system. After all, there’s quotas to meet and money to be made. Just think….Had that stem gotten into the wrong hands, someone might have made a cup of tea with it and written a poem or even more horrific, order Chinese food and giggled.
Oh and let’s not forget her additional charge for paraphernalia. A Pipe? Rolling papers? A bong you may ask? Nope, a small cardboard box that her earrings came in. Yes, a cardboard jewelry box. Now I have seen a lot of cool MacGyver-like contraptions at parties but not an earring box. Their decisive powers are baffling.
Don Pio says he spent two hours in custody for possessing marijuana he depends on for his health.
Pio, 35, says he has a medical condition that requires him to smoke pot every 40 minutes or so. He had marijuana on his breath when he followed his wife into Kelowna Law Courts on Friday – an odour that landed him in handcuffs on the floor of a sheriff‘s van and later in a jail cell.
“It was harsh, man. The worst morning of my life. I have no (criminal) record,” he said on Sunday.
“They arrested me for smelling like pot.”
No medication controls his shaking and nausea better than cannabis, Pio said. Last December, Health Canada granted him a medicinal-marijuana card based on his doctor‘s prescription. The document, which features Pio‘s photo, name and address, permits him to use cannabis to suppress his symptoms.
A persistent blogger annoys police -- and winds up in jail.
A 34-YEAR-OLD woman, the mother of a 12-year-old girl, has been locked up in a Virginia jail for three weeks and could remain there for at least another month. Her crime? Blogging about the police.
Elisha Strom, who appears unable to make the $750 bail, was arrested outside Charlottesville on July 16 when police raided her house, confiscating notebooks, computers and camera equipment. Although the Charlottesville police chief, Timothy J. Longo Sr., had previously written to Ms. Strom warning her that her blog posts were interfering with the work of a local drug enforcement task force, she was not charged with obstruction of justice or any similar offense. Rather, she was indicted on a single count of identifying a police officer with intent to harass, a felony under state law. Read more »
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by Chris Goodwin, Cannabis Culture
REGINA — Police recently had to return marijuana grow equipment they seized from a licensed producer during a large drug bust in southern Saskatchewan in early December.
By Joel Warner
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A very close friend was arrested for possessing a small twig today. Umm..yes, you read correctly, a twig. Her car was impounded, she was frisked, brought in for questioning, embarrassed, fined thousands of dollars, detained for hours, her vehicle was illegally searched for 20 minutes and nothing found. She was fingerprinted twice and called derogatory names all because she had a non-smokeable twig from a naturally occurring plant, called Marijuana.
