Pubdate: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 Source: Metro (Calgary, CN AB) Copyright: 2007 Free Daily News Group, Inc. Contact: http://www.metronews.ca/archive.aspx?pdfCity=calgary Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4471 Author: Krista Sylvester Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Marijuana - Canada) City Parents First Targets of New Alberta Law Two sets of Calgary parents have become the first four people ever charged under a new provincial law that targets people who raise their children in drug environments. Police announced yesterday the first charges under the Drug Endangered Children Act (DECA), and said more local parents will likely be charged under the new legislation once officials go through the cases where children have been removed from homes surrounded in drugs. Members of the Calgary Police Service Child At Risk Response Team (CARRT) laid the first official charges on May 14 against the parents of a four-yearold and 18-month-old after the children were rescued during a marijuana grow-op bust in the city's southeast. In that case the children were initially apprehended on Dec. 12, 2006. A second set of charges were laid by CARRT on May 15 against both parents of four children aged seven to 16 in a case stemming from a grow-op bust on Dec. 8, 2006. None of those charged can be named in order to protect the identities of the children. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake