Canadian Press Links DEAland
Military To Closing Of Vancouver’s Cannabis Café;
Narco-imperialism At Work. Canada Should Issue Its Own Declaration Of Independence.
June 10, 1999From The Canadian Press
See
Hemp BC And Cannabis Café To Close As
A Result Of City Political Pressure;
Neighborhood Merchants Want Them To Stay. Protests Urged By Cannabis Culture.
(Marijuananews note: There are two stories here. One is the sad passing of landmark.
The other is the sickening story of DEAland pressure on our Northern neighbor. Canada
should issue its own Declaration of Independence. July 4th would be a good
day.)
JUDGE ORDERS CANNABIS CAFE CLOSED
VANCOUVER (CP) - The Cannabis Cafe closed Wednesday after a judge granted the city of
Vancouver an injunction closing the cafe and Sister Icee’s Hemp B.C.
Doors were locked and telephones disconnected at the Hastings Street businesses by
noon.
Shelley Francis, who bought both businesses from pro-marijuana
activist Marc Emery last year, had asked the B. C. Supreme Court to overturn a Vancouver
city council decision denying her a business licence.
See
Vancouver's Marc Emery Calls It Quits In Battle With
City -- Turning Businesses Over to Employees
Under Emery’s ownership, the cafe had vaporizers on each table and seeds and
growing equipment were sold out of the store.
But Emery’s cannabis capers have been featured in Rolling Stone magazine and on
television’s Hard Copy.
Last fall, city police used U.S. military undercover agents to gather evidence for a
marijuana bust at Hemp B.C. and the Cannabis Cafe.
Court documents showed that four U.S. navy undercover agents were
used to try to buy marijuana and then smoke it at the internationally known emporiums.
The four agents were named in an application for a search warrant that led to an April
30 raid on the stores. The documents showed the Naval Criminal Investigative Service
agents worked in a joint operation with Vancouver police in April.
See
Vancouver Police
Put Prohibitionism Above Patriotism –
Use US Navy Agents In Attempt To Entrap Hemp BC
The Justice Department swore three charges of possession and sale of drug paraphernalia
against Francis. The trial is set for July 19. More than 3,400 American sailors from the
USS Constellation and the USS Rainier were in Vancouver in April.
(Marijuananews note: DEAland sailors go to San Francisco and many
other cities around the world where marijuana is readily available, but they are subject
to random urine testing which is much more like to detect marijuana use than alcohol or
other hard drugs.)
Copyright: 1999 The Canadian Press
For another example of DEAland narco-imperialism see
And Now, How The
Narcs Created Crack -- In Belize
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