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The Prince Of Pot
Prince of Pot with Pot-TV
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12 min |
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25 Oct 2004 |
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8.82 (10 votes) |
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Marc Emery speaks about how the new decrim bill is not decriminalization at all, as higher fines and cultivation charges, propoganda, demonization, and Jack Layton, our former hero has not said anything at all. We have to write letter to the justice critics and MPs ourselves!
US arrests up to 755,000 double in a decade - thats 1 every 40 seconds.
Also, Prop 66 in California and Alaskan 4 oz personal bill, Pierre Berton, and the Saskatchewan and Manitoba Marijuana Parties. Pot-TV
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Cree teen's mother gets police apology
FlashGordon,
Wed Oct 27 05:16:52 2004
Last Updated Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:08:21 EDT
SASKATOON - Saskatoon's police chief apologized to Neil Stonechild's mother Tuesday, hours after suspending two officers in the wake of a public inquiry report that suggested they were involved in the Cree teenager's death on a freezing night in 1990.
Stella Bignell
"I am publicly apologizing to Mrs. Stella Bignell and her family for 14 years of frustration and denial," said Chief Russell Sabo. "I am indeed truly sorry that the Saskatoon police service let them down."
Sabo said he accepted all the findings of Commissioner David Wright, who wrote that the Saskatoon police force conducted only a "superficial" investigation into Stonechild's death on the frozen outskirts of Saskatoon on Nov. 24, 1990.
Justice Wright also found that the police force was deaf to the aboriginal community's demand for an investigation into rumours that officers were driving "troublemakers" to the edges of the city and dropping them off to either freeze to death or somehow make their way to safety.
Sabo was not the police chief at the time of Stonechild's death. Last year, he told CBC News that officers on the force may have been dumping native people outside the city for years.
FROM JUNE 9, 2003: Saskatoon police chief says drop-offs happened 'more than once'
Speaking after the report's release, Bignell called upon the police to apologize to her family, saying they were treated shabbily from the start.
"They didn't want to deal with his death. All they told me was [that] it was an accident, that he went out there by himself, probably. But in the bottom of my heart, I knew he didn't."
Though she still wants charges laid against the two constables named in Wright's report, Bradley Senger and Larry Hartwig, Bignell said she often counsels other aboriginal people not to write off the Saskatoon police service as hostile to natives.
"I'll still tell them to try, to try hard to get the trust back, because I have. I still trust police. I've always said that there's good and bad in everyone. And there's good and bad in the police too."
As he released the report, Saskatchewan Justice Minister Frank Quennell said Crown prosecutors had told him there was not enough evidence to charge Senger and Hartwig over their involvement in Stonechild's disappearance and death.
STONECHILD INQUIRY: Full text of report
Despite that, Sabo said the police force has decided to begin disciplinary proceedings against the two.
"They have been relieved of their duties with pay as of 2 p.m. today," he said late Tuesday afternoon.
That state of affairs will continue until Nov. 4, while the police service conducts a review, Sabo said.
Hartwig issued a statement Tuesday, repeating his denial that he had any involvement with Stonechild the night he disappeared. "I will be defending myself accordingly," the statement said.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/10/26/stonechild_report041026.html
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2003/06/09/stonechild030609.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/stonechild/inquiry.html
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