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Doors still open despite raid

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 12:43pm

BY JANAYA FULLER-EVANS, BURNABY NOW

Burnaby's medical marijuana dispensary is still signing up members after being raided by the Burnaby RCMP last week.

Burnaby's first medical marijuana dispensary opened on April 15 at 4927 Kingsway.

"The doors are still open," said Dana Larsen, a director with the Metrotown Medicinal Society, on Wednesday. "We're still doing what we can to help people."

However, the society is unable to provide patients with medical marijuana as part of the bail conditions set after three people were arrested in the raid last Thursday, he said.

"We're hoping to provide medicine in the future," Larsen added. Read more »

Vancouver Island medical marijuana group raided by police

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 5:51pm

BY SPENCER ANDERSON, COMOX VALLEY ECHO

The North Island Compassion club, a medical marijuana group, was busted by Comox Valley RCMP last week.

On Friday, police executed a search warrant on the club's headquarters on Sixth Street in Courtenay on Vancouver Island.

They seized several pounds of marijuana, and arrested four people. RCMP spokeswoman Const. Tammy Douglas confirmed two were charged and released on a promise to appear in court.

"Police are concerned the club has become a front for marijuana dealing," said Douglas in a statement. "We recognize there are conflicting views on the medicinal value of marijuana but it remains illegal to sell in the manner in which they were conducting business." Read more »

Toronto marijuana clinic raided

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 11:23am
By IAN ROBERTSON, Toronto Sun
 
A downtown Toronto clinic that provided medical marijuana remained closed Thursday after the second police raid in four months.
 
Neev Tapiero, owner of the CALM Compassion Club at 106 Queen St. E., was arrested later at his home Wednesday, Const. Tony Vella said.
 
Officers from 51 Division investigated a “community complaint,” and seized an allegedly larger-than-permitted stock of pot, plus hashish and hash oil, he said.
 
Several people in the storefront near Jarvis St. were detained briefly, Vella said.
 
Nine people, including Tapiero, were arrested there on drug charges in late March.

Medical marijuana clubs at odds over raids

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 6:56pm
CBC News
 
Two Montreal compassion clubs are pointing fingers at each other over what prompted a series of police raids to shut down the medical marijuana dispensaries in Quebec.
 
Thirty-five people were arrested when police targeted five clubs in Montreal and Quebec City on June 3.
 
The head of the Montreal Compassion Club, Marc-Boris St-Maurice, said responsibility for the situation rests with the founders of a new club that opened four months ago in the city's Lachine district.
 
The club attracted a lot of new members and a lot of attention from law enforcement, said St-Maurice, former leader of the Marijuana Party.

Compassion club raids: the forces of Prohibition rage on

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 4:32pm
By Shawn Katz, Montreal Public Policy Examiner
 
As more information steadily comes to light following yesterday's dramatic raids on Montreal's cannabis clubs, one can't help but be struck by the latent absurdity of the entire affair. Though unwittingly, the police's true achievement may have been to shine a light on the striking dissonance between Canadian society's attitudes towards marijuana on the one hand, and the iron letter of the law on the other.

CSSDP Statement on Compassion Club Raids

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 8:35am
CSSDP
 
Already in 2010 several medical marijuana compassion clubs have been raided by police in Iqaluit, Guelph, Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City. Staff have been given or threatened with criminal trafficking charges. Patients unfortunate enough to be inside at the time of the raids have been detained, questioned, and charged for attempting to access medicine that has been produced safely and responsibly. The clubs have had their contents confiscated, crippling their ability to conduct business, and more importantly denying patients safe and secure access to medication.

Cannabis pharmacy raids abusive, says BCCLA

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 1:40pm
BC Civil Liberties Association:
 
Quebec police shut down three medical cannabis dispensaries, also known as “compassion clubs” today, arresting all staff on site for trafficking. The Quebec closures follow a raid on a compassion club in Nunavut in February, in Toronto at the end of March, and in Guelph in May.
 
“These national raids have now sent thousands of Canadians to purchase their medicine on the street,” said Micheal Vonn, Policy Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. “The police by these actions have enriched organize crime, encouraged associated criminal activity, and shut down non-profit organizations dedicated to improving people’s health and wellness. By any standard these raids make no sense at all.”

Police raid cannabis clubs that supply medicinal pot in Quebec, plan 25 arrests

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 11:44am
By: The Canadian Press
 
MONTREAL - Police have launched a major anti-pot dragnet in Quebec and say they plan to arrest 25 people for distributing marijuana.
 
They are conducting raids at five cannabis clubs — better known as compassion clubs — in Montreal and Quebec City.
 
The organizations supply marijuana, ostensibly as therapeutic treatment for people suffering from certain medical conditions.
 
A police spokesman says no organized crime gangs are linked to the operations, but they remain illegal nonetheless.
 
Canada has in fact allowed medical access to marijuana since 2001 but, police say, people who want permission to smoke it must go through Health Canada. Read more »

Montreal cops target compassion clubs in pot bust

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 11:40am
By Jan Ravensbergen, Montreal Gazette
 
MONTREAL - Police in this city as well as Quebec City were executing a series of search warrants in a widespread anti-drug operation Thursday afternoon, targeting five "compassion centres" and grow-ops that supply them.
 
Authorities swept into four locations in Lachine and Plateau-Mont Royal, said Constable Olivier Lapointe of Montreal police.
 
A drug raid understood to be related is also being conducted in Quebec City.

Medical marijuana clubs raided in Montreal

Submitted by Nicole Seguin on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 10:16am
CBC News
 
Montreal police are in the process of raiding four clubs that provide marijuana for people who need it for medical purposes.
 
"They just walked in out of nowhere, showed us the paper and said, 'There's the warrant,'" said Maria Koklas, a volunteer at the Culture 420 compassion club in Lachine.
 
"There's about 15 to 20 cops in here walking around inside the dispensary taking all of our membership IDs, asking them for all their personal information, asking them for their criminal records and letting them know if they don't have criminal records they will be free to go."
 
Police are also carrying out operations at three compassion clubs on the Plateau Mont-Royal.
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