‘Kids for Cash’ Judge Gets 28 Years in Pennsylvania Bribery Case
Mark Ciavarella Jr took $1m in bribes from the builder of two detention centres in return for filling them with juvenile offenders.
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Ontario’s Burning Pot Controversy
Ontario’s highest court will review a landmark decision in November which deals with Canada’s troubled medical marijuana program and the legalization of the production and possession of pot.
Mandatory Minimums For Drug Crimes Are a Giant Step Backward for Canada
Bill S-10 will neither deter organized crime nor make any serious dent in Canada’s drug trade.
Court of Appeal Says No to Civil Disobedience in Holy Smoke Case
In a ruling that took aim at those advocating an end to the current criminal prohibition on marijuana, the court said disagreeing with the law does not permit you to break it.
Cannabis Religious Challenge Update
My lawyer, Kirk Tousaw, and I have been preparing for a Nov. 3 appearance in Federal Canadian court regarding our religious challenge for a cannabis exemption. Below are documents prepared from Professors, two of whom are slated to appear as expert witnesses in the case:
Court Challenge Aims To Legalize All Cannabis Use
Medical marijuana advocates are planning a court challenge aimed at legalizing all cannabis use, in response to the latest restrictions announced by Health Canada.
Medical Pot Grower Eddy Lepp Gets 10 Years
A medical-marijuana advocate who grew 32,000 plants on his land in Lake County was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by a federal judge who criticized the law she was applying.
Justice Department Urges Equalizing Drug Sentences
Justice Department officials this morning endorsed for the first time proposed legislation that would eliminate vast sentencing disparities for possession of powdered versus rock cocaine, an inequality that civil rights groups say has disproportionately affected poor and minority defendants.
Supreme Court of Canada Won’t Hear Appeal of Medical Marijuana Case
The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that effectively loosened Ottawa's control over access to medicinal marijuana.
