http://www.drugnews.org/ Media Awareness Project Drug News en-us Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:46:17 -0700 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:10:02 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Modperl editor@mapinc.org (MAP Editor) webmaster@mapinc.org (MAP Webmaster) http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v18/n058/a03.html Globe and Mail, 12 Feb 2018 - British Columbia's civil forfeiture regime violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by forcing individuals to produce evidence against themselves and by resulting in penalties that are grossly disproportionate, says a new constitutional challenge. The case, which will proceed to trial in B.C. Supreme Court in November, stems from a 2015 police search of a multi-million-dollar home on Vancouver's west side that turned up hundreds of marijuana plants. It is expected to be the second constitutional case involving B.C.'s Civil Forfeiture Office heard this year; a case involving the Hells Angels is scheduled for April. Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v18/n058/a03.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n278/a03.html Morning Call, 21 Aug 2017 - Northampton County's drug forfeiture program netted $132,000 last year, the district attorney's office announced. Northampton County's drug forfeiture program seized more than $132,000 in the past year, on par with other years despite heightened scrutiny of the practice nationwide. Mon, 21 Aug 2017 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n278/a03.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n000/a015.html New York Times, 20 Jul 2017 - WASHINGTON - The Justice Department revived a widely criticized practice on Wednesday that allows state and local law enforcement officials to use federal law to seize the cash, cars or other personal property of people suspected of crimes but not charged. The department issued new guidance expanding the federal government's use of so-called civil asset forfeiture, labeling it a necessary tool to fight crime. But civil rights advocates say it can be abused by law enforcement officials and deprive people who have done nothing wrong of their right to due process, a charge that Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, contested. Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n000/a015.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n126/a03.html Toronto Star, 10 Apr 2017 - Cash seized at Pearson airport from alleged marijuana courier The attorney general is seeking a forfeiture order for almost $600,000 seized from the carry-on luggage of an alleged pot dispensary courier waiting to board a flight to Vancouver at Pearson airport in January. Mon, 10 Apr 2017 07:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n126/a03.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n091/a04.html Wall Street Journal, 06 Mar 2017 - America's sheriffs have given President Trump a woefully inaccurate view of civil asset forfeiture-the process through which police seize, and prosecutors literally sue, cash, cars and real estate that they suspect may be connected to a crime. "People want to say we're taking money and without due process. That's not true," a Kentucky sheriff told the president last month at a White House meeting. Critics of forfeiture, the sheriff added, simply "make up stories." In fact, thousands of Americans have had their assets taken without ever being charged with a crime, let alone convicted. Russ Caswell almost lost his Massachusetts motel, which had been run by his family for more than 50 years, because of 15 "drug-related incidents" there from 1994-2008, a period through which he rented out nearly 200,000 rooms. Mon, 06 Mar 2017 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v17/n091/a04.html