Jerry Springer

Fri, September 10, 2004


Six detained in cafe raid



By CP




VANCOUVER -- Officers in a convoy of about 30 cruisers surrounded a cafe accused of selling marijuana, securing surrounding alley ways and erecting barricades to keep back angry crowds. Six people were detained in the raid, which comes a day after B.C.'s Solicitor General encouraged police to crack down on the Da Kine Cafe.

Officers have been letting it conduct business as usual despite glaring media reports that it openly sells marijuana over the counter.

Spokeswoman Sarah Bloor said police have been aware of the cafe, that it has been on their radar but that it takes time to methodically build a case.



Police were executing a search warrant last night that Bloor said had been thoroughly investigated.

"If people are blatantly drug trafficking, they can expect a visit. The Vancouver Police Department has to uphold the law," she said.

"We don't respond to political or public opinion. We have not received any complaints with regard to this particular cafe. When they openly flaunted their activity, we felt it necessary to act."

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Winnip...10/622608.html

North_of_Sanity

Well.....I'm going anyway in 2010 to watch the Olympic hockey tournament.

I'll just bring my own Ontario-grown weed to share

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Ego Tripping

Personally, I find it dumb they were so blatent and out in the open about it. I knew there was no way it would have been ignored.

merv_2002

yeah if anything they should have waited till the next time marijuana legalization/decriminalization was brought up by the government.

North_of_Sanity

Yeah, that's true.

That Green Party should use the industrial uses of hemp as a part of their political platform. There is so much space in Northern Canada, we should be growing it in greenhouses for medical, recreational, and industrial use.

The possibilities are truly endless when it comes to the practical uses of the marijuana plant. Besides the benefit for the environment.

Fuck, I bet almost every country in the world would catch on if we set an example.

Criminalization and prohibition is such a waste of time and money. The government needs to see the war on drugs is a losing battle. Everyone that wants to smoke MJ, smokes MJ. So why don't we just accept it, and make use of the greatest plant on Earth?

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"His professional diagnosis: Narcissistic Personality Disorder. My unprofessional diagnosis: Nut-Job!" - Jim Rome

"I don't have a girlfriend. But I know a woman who would be upset if she heard me say that." - Mitch Hedberg

"Condoms are stupid" - some dirty ho

kameelyun

I don't think it's a sudden "change of moral conviction" on the part of the BC Solicitor General. You know the DEA has offices in Vancouver. You know how much power the mighty US has over Canada. The DEA specializes in scare tactics. You know how much Corporate America stands to lose with the repeal of the prohibition.

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