World-Spectator, The _CN SN_ 1/1/1997 - 31/12/2024
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1 CN SN: Whitewood Marijuana Dispensary Owner ChargedMon, 14 Nov 2016
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN) Author:Beutler, Donna Area:Saskatchewan Lines:91 Added:11/15/2016

There was a strong police presence in Whitewood last Thursday when RCMP raided the Lalonde St. home of 45-year-old Whitewood resident Jerry Martin as well as at his business location on 3rd Ave.

Police officers and vehicles were very visible at both locations throughout the day.

According to RCMP, "At approximately 10:20 a.m. on Nov. 8, 2016, Broadview RCMP executed a warrant at both a business and a residence at Whitewood, SK."

As officers stood guard at the Martin Medical Services building downtown, several officers entered Martin's residence and began a search of the main street home, and later at the business location. RCMP seized marijuana, hash oil, cell phones and computers, an undisclosed amount of cash, and three vehicles.

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2 CN SN: Editorial: Government Moving to American-Style JusticeMon, 04 Jan 2010
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN) Author:Weedmark, Kevin Area:Saskatchewan Lines:114 Added:01/06/2010

Canada's crime rate is at a 30-year low, with both the rate and the severity of reported crime falling constantly over that time.

So it seems odd that the federal government would respond by adopting "get tough on crime" policies similar to those in the United States, where the prison population is by far the highest in the world thanks to mandatory sentences and prison terms for minor offences - one in four prisoners on earth is behind bars in the United States. And yet America still has some of the highest crime rates in the developed world.

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3 CN MB: Manitoba Releases National Hemp StrategyMon, 17 Nov 2008
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN)          Area:Manitoba Lines:53 Added:11/20/2008

The Province of Manitoba has released a national hemp strategy that will seek to identify new opportunities for farmers, processors, researchers and exporters.

"Manitoba's farmers and processors are at the leading edge of hemp production," Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Rosann Wowchuk (said) recently.

Hemp can be used in a wide range of consumer and industrial applications.

The National Industrial Hemp Strategy identifies the opportunities and challenges in three categories:

. Health and food;

. Fibre and industrial oil, and;

. Production and breeding.

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4 CN SN: Hemp Nutrition Holds Value-Added PotentialMon, 14 Apr 2008
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN)          Area:Saskatchewan Lines:92 Added:04/16/2008

The strength and durability of hemp fibre is well known, leading to a number of textile applications. Hemp oil has features that make it a very attractive ingredient in the cosmetics industry, as well.

Now, thanks to a growing body of research, the nutritional value of hemp seeds is also being proven, adding yet another dimension to the crop's tremendous value-added potential.

The Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CHTA) is spearheading a comprehensive research and market development program, the goal of which is to sustain the industry's current rapid growth by establishing and disseminating science-based information about the crop's dietary attributes.

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5 CN SN: PUB LTE: Marijuana Or MartinisMon, 23 Jul 2007
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN) Author:Sharpe, Robert Area:Saskatchewan Lines:59 Added:07/23/2007

Dear Editor:

Re: "One toke over the line?" editorial by Kevin Wedmark, published Monday, July 16.

Writing under the pen name Janey Canuck in the early 1900s, an Edmonton woman by the name of Emily Murphy first warned Canadians about the dread reefer and its association with dark-skinned minorities. The sensationalist yellow journalism of William Randolph Hearst led to marijuana's criminalization in the United States.

At the time, marijuana use in North America was limited to Mexican immigrants and black jazz musicians. Whites did not even begin to smoke marijuana until after it was prohibited. Almost one hundred years later, Canada lead the industrialized world in cannabis consumption. Prohibition has been counterproductive at best.

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6 CN SN: OPED: One Toke Over The Line?Mon, 16 Jul 2007
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN) Author:Weedmark, Kevin Area:Saskatchewan Lines:66 Added:07/17/2007

A new study suggests there may be a reason Canadians are generally seen as more laid-back than their American counterparts.

According to a recent report by the United Nations, Canadians use marijuana at four times the world average rate, making Canada the leader of the industrialized world in pot smoking.

The 2007 World Drug Report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime says that 16.8 per cent of Canadians aged 15 to 64 smoked marijuana or used another cannabis product in 2006. The world average is 3.8 per cent. The Canadian statistic is surprising, to say the least.

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7 CN SN: Marijuana Debate Leads To Protest, Suspensions At Wawota SchoolMon, 18 Jun 2007
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN) Author:Stephenson, Amanda Area:Saskatchewan Lines:143 Added:06/20/2007

What began as a discussion about the effects of marijuana ended in Wawota last week with a protest, a school lockdown, and the suspension of two students.

Fifteen-year-old Kieran King and his 14-year-old brother Lucas were suspended from school last week after a string of events that culminated in members of Saskatchewan's Marijuana Party coming to Wawota to protest outside the school.

It all began about six months ago when Kieran started doing research on the medical effects of marijuana. He began telling his fellow students that marijuana has not been proven to be more harmful than alcohol or tobacco, and that in fact it does have some medical benefits, such as nausea relief for chemotherapy patients.

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8 CN SN: NHL Scout Warns Against Drugs, Alcohol In His SpeechMon, 09 Apr 2007
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN) Author:Kinna, Kara Area:Saskatchewan Lines:87 Added:04/09/2007

Moosomin's six minor hockey teams were introduced and given warm congratulations on their 2006/07 season at the annual Moosomin Minor Hockey Banquet on Saturday, March 31. They were also given a stern warning about the dangers of drinking and doing drugs--a warning that came from Jim Pederson, the primary scout for the NHL's Dallas Stars, who spoke as a guest at the banquet.

"There are three reasons I talk to people about booze and drugs," said Pederson. "The first--and I'm not proud of it--is that I used to be into booze. I did put it behind me, but not before I lost a lot of respect.

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9 CN SN: Good Experience With HempMon, 06 Nov 2006
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN)          Area:Saskatchewan Lines:103 Added:11/09/2006

John Ackland heard all the jokes when he decided to try his hand at growing hemp on his farmland.

"The first time I grew it around here, I had lots of guys coming into the shop and laughing, 'So, you're growing marijuana, are you?'" he chuckled.

"Now it's becoming a more common crop around here, and the jokes are long gone," he said. "People are starting to understand that it's actually a cash crop. Now, my phone bounces off the wall with people asking how they go about getting contracts to grow hemp. So they realize there is potential out there."

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10 CN SN: PUB LTE: LSD and Distorted PerceptionMon, 31 Oct 2005
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN) Author:Parley, Kay Area:Saskatchewan Lines:105 Added:11/07/2005

Dear Editor:

"The Psychedelic Pioneers," a documentary about experiments with LSD in Saskatchewan in the 1950s and 1960s, will air on SCN on Oct. 26 at 9 p.m. Interest in the drug may revive. It is being used in the treatment of people addicted to crack cocaine and to crystal meth, apparently with some success.

The news really doesn't frighten me, because I am well-acquainted with LSD. I trained in psychiatric nursing at Weyburn when the first experiments were underway. Later as Dr. Hoffer's team leader at University Hospital, Saskatoon, I won a reputation as a good LSD sitter and guided quite a few treatments. I published the first article about the nurse's role in LSD (American Journal of Nursing, 1964), and yes, I took it once.

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11 CN SN: RCMP Say Drugs Hard To Crack Down On In Small TownsMon, 16 May 2005
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN)          Area:Saskatchewan Lines:127 Added:05/22/2005

Moosomin RCMP Say Cracking Down On Drugs And Drug Dealers In Small Towns Is Not As Easy As One Would Think

The RCMP's response to drug use and drug dealers in small towns comes on the heels of a letter to the editor in the May 9 issue of the World-Spectator, in which a worried mother of a drug user expressed her concerns about lack of action against drugs in small towns. The anonymous letter writer questioned the reason there are so many drug busts on the highway and so few drug busts within small towns.

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12 CN SN: LTE: A Mother Against DrugsMon, 09 May 2005
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN)          Area:Saskatchewan Lines:64 Added:05/15/2005

Dear Editor:

Please be aware that I am a mother of a drug user and it has turned my whole life upside down.

I hate it and it seems that small towns like Welwyn, Whitewood, Wapella, Moosomin and Rocanville sit back and watch it happen whereas bigger centres are challenging it at least.

The police are making big busts on the highway but leaving the small towns alone.

I am tired of things being this way. I see exchanges of drugs in the middle of the street or in back rooms. How come there is so much protection for users and dealers but regular moms cannot come forward and say anything for fear of a backlash. We live next door to them and so do you. Are your children safe? Have you seen what is going on?

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13 CN SN: Community Warned about Dangers Of Crystal MethMon, 28 Mar 2005
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN) Author:Stephenson, Amanda Area:Saskatchewan Lines:81 Added:04/02/2005

"I don't think it's proper to say if your son or daughter tried this once at 14 or 15, they're hooked for life," Sergeant Dave Henry, drug awareness coordinator with the RCMP, told the group of concerned community members who attended a crystal meth information session on Wednesday, March 23 in Moosomin. "But it is highly addictive. If you do start to try this drug recreationally, it does lead to cravings and can in turn lead to addiction."

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14 CN SN: PUB LTE: Drug Policy Fundamentally FlawedMon, 28 Feb 2005
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN) Author:Sharpe, Robert Area:Saskatchewan Lines:44 Added:03/05/2005

Dear Editor:

Re: Murray Mandryk's column "Rural Saskatchewan not as safe as we think."

How should Saskatchewan respond to the growing use of methamphetamine? Here in the United States, New York City chose the zero tolerance approach during the crack epidemic of the eighties. Meanwhile, Washington, DC Mayor Marion Barry was smoking crack and America's capital had the highest per capita murder rate in the country. Yet crack use declined in both cities simultaneously. The decline was not due to a slick anti-drug advertising campaign or the passage of mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Simply put, the younger generation saw firsthand what crack was doing to their older siblings and decided for themselves that crack was bad news.

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15 CN SN: Column: Rural Saskatchewan Kids Not As Safe As We ThinkMon, 14 Feb 2005
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN) Author:Mandryk, Murray Area:Saskatchewan Lines:87 Added:02/20/2005

Some of you may not like what you're about to read, but it's something we all really need to think about.

Rural Saskatchewan may not be the ideal place to raise our kids like we once assumed it was. And all one has to do to recognize that reality is to look at two stories getting a lot of attention from the media and the provincial politicians of late--the stories about crystal methamphetamine addiction and the stories about bullying that may have led to a teenage suicide in Canora.

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16 CN SN: Sask Party Announces Crystal Meth StrategyMon, 17 Jan 2005
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN)          Area:Saskatchewan Lines:92 Added:01/24/2005

The Saskatchewan Party used its first news conference of 2005 to say it's becoming clearer and clearer the Calvert NDP has no idea what it's doing when it comes to crystal meth.

"Crystal meth will not wait for the NDP while they create another legislative secretary position to study and review. Neither will the Saskatchewan Party," said Saskatchewan Party leader Brad Wall.

"The reality is, crystal meth is becoming a major drug problem in Saskatchewan and the government needs to deal with it--now!"

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17 CN SN: Crystal Meth, Ecstasy Presentation Held For SchoolMon, 17 Jan 2005
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN) Author:Stephenson, Amanda Area:Saskatchewan Lines:92 Added:01/24/2005

"My wife and I had made a pact that we wouldn't cry--we would show we were strong parents," John Watson told Moosomin School Division students in a presentation at McNaughton High last Monday. "But then I felt the tears coming. I couldn't stop and then she couldn't stop." Watson was describing the pain he and his wife Wanda went through the night their son, 20-year-old Jimmy Dean, died of an ecstasy overdose.

That was last February. Since then, Watson has devoted his life to travelling to schools and warning students about the dangers of crystal meth and ecstasy, two drugs that are growing problems in rural Saskatchewan. Watson, who is from the Ochapowace First Nation, did his presentation for Rocanville and Wapella students on Monday morning in Rocanville and again at McNaughton High for Moosomin and Maryfield students on Monday afternoon.

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18 CN SN: School Board Worried About Crystal MethMon, 03 Jan 2005
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN)          Area:Saskatchewan Lines:57 Added:01/08/2005

The Board of Education of the Moosomin School Division is concerned about the increasing prevalence of the new drug of choice for young people--crystal methamphetamine (more commonly known as crystal meth). So concerned, in fact, that it has arranged for a presentation to all Grade 5-12 students by John and Wanda Watson, who lost their son in a tragic situation.

The new form of crystal meth is being called the most dangerous drug on the street, and police consider it even more addictive than crack cocaine. It is a colorless, odorless form of d-methamphetamine, a powerful and highly addictive synthetic (man-made) stimulant.

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19 CN SN: Moosomin RCMP Having An ImpactMon, 04 Oct 2004
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN)          Area:Saskatchewan Lines:46 Added:10/10/2004

Organized crime affects everyone in Saskatchewan and the commodities which fund organized crime organizations flow through the province daily.

Moosomin's RCMP detachment is definitely having an impact on organized crime by disrupting these criminal activities.

From July 2000 to September 2004, members of the Moosomin detachment have made a number of significant drug and cash seizures on Highway 1. About 3,800 pounds of marijuana with a street value of several million dollars has been seized in that time.

Members have also seized more than six kilos of cocaine, 118,000 ecstacy pills, 1,000 LSD pills, and a quantity of hash.

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20 CN SN: LTE: The Other Side Of The StoryMon, 09 Feb 2004
Source:World-Spectator, The (CN SN) Author:Romanow, Terry Area:Saskatchewan Lines:129 Added:02/14/2004

Dear Editor:

I am responding to an article written by Tasha Wiebe in the Jan. 26 issue of the World-Spectator "Should marijuana be decriminalized?"

I would like to firstly bring to awareness that there is a difference between decriminalization and legalization.

Decriminalization means that anyone caught with marijuana for "personal use" will be be charged criminally, however, they will be given what would amount to a "ticket" similar to a traffic violation or liquor charge.

With any amounts over this "personal use" amount a person is charged criminally for possession under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. If use or possession of marijuana were legalized, it would mean that it would be okay for anyone to grow or possess marijuana in any form.

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