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1 CN ON: Proposed Pot Law Changes Meet ResistanceFri, 21 Dec 2012
Source:Peterborough This Week (CN ON) Author:Wiebe, Joel Area:Ontario Lines:112 Added:12/24/2012

Not Everyone Is Happy With Changes The Federal Government Is Making For Medicinal Marijuana Use

(PETERBOROUGH) When it comes to medicinal marijuana, it's not just that it helped Vycki Fleming reduce her meds from 17 prescriptions to one.

Or that she's no longer being regularly hospitalized or even that it's the one medication she has found that allows her to live a relatively normal life.

She can grow it. And that means she can afford it.

The new regulations from the federal government, she explains through tears, would put an end to that.

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2 CN BC: Editorial: A Few Bad SeedsFri, 21 Dec 2012
Source:Maple Ridge News (CN BC)          Area:British Columbia Lines:63 Added:12/24/2012

The federal government is bent on pushing medical marijuana grow operations out of residential homes.

Crime and safety - home invasions, faulty wiring and mould - are the main reasons, and the plan has the backing of fire chiefs in B.C.

An apartment fire in Maple Ridge on Dec. 13, which left dozens of people homeless, illustrates their concerns, as investigators found three grow ops on the second floor, where the fire started, and which they believe was electrical in origin.

But Health Canada has said that the proposed legislation, which would regulate medical marijuana grow ops and push them to industrial or agricultural areas, where they would be subject to inspections, will drive up the purchase price.

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3 Colombia: Colombia Units Use U.S. Techniques To Bust DrugMon, 24 Dec 2012
Source:Los Angeles Times (CA) Author:Kraul, Chris Area:Colombia Lines:125 Added:12/24/2012

U.S.-Vetted Sensitive Investigative Units Rack Up Impressive Successes In The Drug Wars Using American Technology And Training At A Relatively Low Cost.

CARTAGENA, Colombia - Under cover of a moonless night in early July, the crew took no more than five minutes to load more than a ton of cocaine on a motorboat beached on a deserted shore of the Guajira peninsula in northeastern Colombia. Equipped with three 200-horsepower engines, the "go-fast" craft then roared off toward the Dominican Republic, the first stop on the drugs' way north.

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4 Colombia: Colombia Fights Drugs U.S.-StyleMon, 24 Dec 2012
Source:Los Angeles Times (CA) Author:Kraul, Chris Area:Colombia Lines:212 Added:12/24/2012

Special Units Rely on American Technology and Training, Racking Up Impressive Successes at a Relatively Low Cost.

CARTAGENA, Colombia - Under cover of a moonless night in early July, the crew took no more than five minutes to load more than a ton of cocaine on a motorboat beached on a deserted shore of the Guajira peninsula in northeastern Colombia. Equipped with three 200-horsepower engines, the "go-fast" craft then roared off toward the Dominican Republic, the first stop on the drugs' way north.

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5 CN BC: Editorial: Eager To Fight Grow-Ops NowThu, 20 Dec 2012
Source:Abbotsford Times (CN BC)          Area:British Columbia Lines:54 Added:12/24/2012

There will be a lot of smiling and nodding and happy faces at the news that federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq is taking aim at marijuana growers who are hiding behind current laws to operate illegal drug businesses.

Nobody wants illegal grow-ops in their neighbourhoods or in their communities.

We all pay for the electricity they steal. We all pay for the service costs they dodge by not paying taxes on their enterprising activities.

Nobody wants the dangers associated with living next door to such operations. There is always the very real risk that their colleagues in crime will bring violence to their "place of business" - which can easily spill onto the streets as they "protect their interests, or into nearby homes through "mistaken identity" or even into local shopping malls, as they engage in open battle with one another.

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6 CN BC: Editorial: Eager To Fight Grow Ops NowThu, 20 Dec 2012
Source:Chilliwack Times (CN BC)          Area:British Columbia Lines:52 Added:12/24/2012

There will be a lot of smiling and nodding and happy faces at the news that federal health minister Leona Aglukkaq is taking aim at marijuana growers who are hiding behind current laws to operate illegal drug businesses.

Nobody wants illegal grow ops in their neighbourhoods or in their communities.

We all pay for the electricity they steal. We all pay for the service costs they dodge by not paying taxes on their enterprising activities.

Nobody wants the dangers associated with living next door to such operations. There is always the very real risk that their colleagues in crime will bring violence to their "place of business"-which can easily spill onto the streets as they "protect their interests" or into nearby homes through "mistaken identity" or even into local shopping malls as they engage in open battle with one another.

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7US CO: Douglas County Bans Pot BusinessesMon, 24 Dec 2012
Source:Denver Post (CO) Author:Illescas, Carlos Area:Colorado Lines:Excerpt Added:12/24/2012

County Becomes First in State to Bar Such Operations After Passage of Amendment 64

Just because marijuana is now legal in Colorado doesn't mean you'll be able to buy it everywhere.

Communities are taking action against commerical marijuana operations a year before it will likely be available to adults.

Douglas County is the first county in the state to place an all-out ban on commercial pot operations. That ban takes effect Thursday. Weld County is also on pace to have a ban against them next month. Other communities, such as Englewood, have issued moratoriums on the opening of recreational-marijuana businesses.

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8 CN BC: Pot Knowledge GrowsThu, 20 Dec 2012
Source:Maple Ridge Times (CN BC) Author:Rantanen, Maria Area:British Columbia Lines:66 Added:12/24/2012

Changes To Health Canada Regulations Will Move Legal Pot Growing Into Specific Zones

A medical marijuana dispensary in Maple Ridge passes on information about how to use pot to help manage medical conditions.

Michael Joinson, founder and president of The Always Growing Green Society (TAGGS) medical marijuana dispensary in Maple Ridge, said the society provides their members with a wide-range of information about cannabis and he doesn't think Health Canada's proposed changes to pot dispensing rules will allow those who use it for health reasons to get the right kind of information.

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9CN ON: OPED: Colorado Pot Luck A The Future Of MarijuanaSat, 22 Dec 2012
Source:Ottawa Citizen (CN ON) Author:Lamb, Dominic Area:Ontario Lines:Excerpt Added:12/24/2012

In the U.S. elections in November, Colorado and Washington State both passed ballot initiatives that could fundamentally and forever change the way the United States deals with the regulation of marijuana.

What exactly did they do? Residents of both states voted to effectively decriminalize the production, possession and consumption of the substance, and regulate it in a manner very similar to the way they currently regulate alcohol.

In the words of the Colorado state constitutional amendment, "in the interest of the efficient use of law enforcement resources, enhancing revenue for public purposes, and individual freedom, the people of the State of Colorado find and declare that the use of marijuana should be legal for persons 21 years of age or older, and taxed in a manner similar to alcohol."

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