New Zealand police have shut a chain of home garden supply shops called Switched On Gardener that they allege form part of the backbone of the country's illegal cannabis industry.
A former Vancouver police officer charged with selling marijuana, then fired from the department hours after his arrest last week, is “in positive spirits and holding up well,” his lawyer says.
Ottawa police Chief Vern White says he isn’t interested in giving marijuana users criminal records, and would support discussing decriminalization — with one caveat.
Vancouver police Chief Jim Chu says he has fired a constable on his force for allegedly using a police database illegally and selling marijuana both on- and off duty.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Hundreds of protesters gathered this weekend outside police headquarters in Toronto to show support for the Cannabis as Living Medicine (C.A.L.M.) Compassion Club, which was raided last week in an aggressive police takedown.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Toronto police say the aggressive raid against the city's largest provider of marijuana to medical patients, the C.A.L.M. Compassion Club, was due to "community complaints."
Ed Forchion doesn't deny it. There was a pound of marijuana - "high-grade California Kush" - in the trunk of his rent-a-wreck when he was stopped in Mount Holly on Thursday night by a state trooper.