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Surrey watching nearby ban on medical marijuana grow-ops

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 3:51pm
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Surrey is watching closely as the City of Pitt Meadows prepares to ban people from growing medical marijuana in that municipality.
 
Health Canada allows the medicinal use of marijuana for several conditions, including severe pain or muscle spasms from multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury or disease, pain or nausea from cancer or HIV and seizures from epilepsy.
 
Tonight (Tuesday), Pitt Meadows will hold a public hearing on a bylaw amendment that would ban the growing of marijuana for medical purposes.
 
It would become the first city in Canada to disallow the federally sanctioned activity. Read more »

BC Court of Appeal Unanimous - Warantless Electrical Searches Unconstitutional

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 11:19am
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By Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun
 
British common law has long held “the house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress” and the B.C. Court of Appeal says that principle still holds.
 
Stamping out marijuana grow operations might be a laudable societal goal, but in a unanimous ruling the court said constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure must nevertheless be respected.
 
The five-judge panel concluded the government should amend the 2004 Safety Standards Act because people have a high expectation of privacy in their homes.
 
Chief Justice Lance Finch, who penned the decision, said two sections of the law — authorizing the warrantless entry and inspection of homes to combat the electrical dangers posed by marijuana grow operations — violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
 
Still, the ruling looks like a lot of smoke and mirrors — it only adds an extra step in a pernicious inspection process required as a result of the expensive failed criminal prohibition against pot.

Pot supporters light up, lay siege to Surrey MP Dona Cadman's office

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 5:23pm
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SURREY - Supporters of Vancouver pot activist Marc Emery laid siege to Tory MP Dona Cadman's office in Surrey North Thursday afternoon to protest the "Prince of Pot's" extradition to the U.S. earlier that day.
 
Emery, 52, is accused of shipping marijuana seeds to Americans and faces five years in a U.S. prison as part of a plea agreement. Protesters here noted that such a conviction amounts to a $200 fine in Canada.
 
The five protesters occupied the lobby of Cadman's Whalley office for several hours as part of a concerted effort targeting Conservative MPs.
 
"They're just going to all MPs offices and protesting," Cadman said. "I told them they're welcome to stay as long as they behave themselves and they don't cause trouble with anybody coming in or disturb the office.
 
"They were getting very boisterous there for a little while until we told them that they had to calm it down. They're pretty civil right now." Read more »

City of Surrey wants access to private medical records

Submitted by Jacob Hunter on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 4:19pm
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Surrey scrutinizes medical marijuana sites

Council asks where legal pot is grown to ensure homes properly modified

The City of Surrey wants to know which of its residents have licences to grow marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Surrey Coun. Marvin Hunt pitched a resolution last week to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities asking the federal government to inform cities when medicinal pot licences are approved.

This would allow municipalities to pinpoint where the pot is being grown and ensure homes are properly modified, he said.

“We will make sure they get the proper permits and inspections so the place won’t be a fire hazard for them or anyone else,” Hunt added.

The resolution was made on behalf of B.C. fire chiefs, who argue medical marijuana growers often alter wiring and make structural changes to their homes before starting their growing operations. Read more »

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