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Cannabis in Canada: References Pages 41-60

PAGE 41 - Legalization movement begins. LSD-POT Pavilion.

• six months for possession
Article: Teenager Jailed On Narcotics Charge, The Ottawa Journal, April 3, 1967
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5386278/the_ottawa_journal/

• a secret society
Article: Seek Marijuana Advancement, The Brandon Sun, February 8, 1965
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3664310/the_brandon_sun/

• Ottawa's first smoke-in
Article: Smoke-In Quiet Affair, Canadian Press, The Ottawa Journal, September 5, 1967
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3664320/the_ottawa_journal/

• rally on Parliament Hill
Article: Hash on Hill, Suds on Mall as Hippies Protest Arrests, by Jeff Carruthers, The Ottawa Journal, Sept 16 1968
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3664325/the_ottawa_journal/

• Jackson Seed
Article: Marijuana Charge Dismissed in Court, The Ottawa Journal, Nov 25, 1967
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3664341/the_ottawa_journal/

• "depravity of the individual"
Article: Police Chiefs Opposed to Homosexuality Law Easing, Canadian Press,The Ottawa Journal, Sept 7 1968,
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5382881/rcmp_against_homosexuality_and_cannabis/

• The LSD-POT Pavilion
Article: Drugs, communications covered, The Montreal Gazette, Jul 12, 1969
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19690712&id=C5YuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OaEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6336,2214672

• The LSD-POT Pavilion
Book: Not this Time, by Marcel Martel, p.101, University of Toronto Press, 2006
https://books.google.ca/books?id=4j2eKW6_UuEC&pg=PA101

• burglars broke into pavilion
Article: Loot Pot Pavilion, Canadian Press, The Ottawa Journal, July 28 1969
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3664382/the_ottawa_journal/

PAGE 42 - Rochdale College. Cannabis smuggler Rosie Rowbotham.

• famous Woodstock festival
Wikipedia: Woodstock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock

• Rochdale College
Website: Rochdale College Book, by Wolf Sullivan, 2014
http://www.rochdalecollegebook.com

• Rochdale College
Article: Remembering Rochdale College, Toronto’s hippie heart, by Kelli Korducki, Globe and Mail, Nov 8 2013
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/remembering-rochdale-college-torontos-hippie-heart/article15357582/

• Rochdale College
Audio: Rochdale College Organized Anarchy, CBC Radio, Concern, Peter Meggs, Jan 8 1969
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/rochdale-college-organized-anarchy

• Rochdale College
Video: Rochdale: The hippie experiment explodes, Joe Coté, CBC Digital Archives, Aug 8 1977
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/rochdale-the-hippie-experiment-explodes

• Rosie Rowbotham:
Article: Rosie Rowbotham, Canada’s longest serving marijuana prisoner, by Thomas Mann, Cannabis Culture, May 1, 1998
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/1998/05/01/32

• Rosie Rowbotham:
Article: Weed-War Survivor Sums It Up Simply: Drugs Won, by Mitch Potter, Toronto Star, Oct 15 2000
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00.n1560.a02.html

• Rosie Rowbotham:
Article: Dealer tells tale of riches, The Ottawa Journal, May 3 1977
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3664413/the_ottawa_journal/

• Rosie Rowbotham:
Article: Jury acquits man after deliberating for 14 hours, Canadian press, The Ottawa Journal, May 12 1977
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3664419/the_ottawa_journal/

• Norman Mailer
Article: Newsmakers, The Brandon Sun, Apr 20, 1977
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5386287/the_brandon_sun/

• Neil Young
Book: Neil Young Nation, by Kevin Chong, Greystone Books, 2005
https://books.google.ca/books?id=3zzZBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT119

• chart: marijuana convictions per year:
Paper: Drug Control Laws in Canada, by Kos-Rabcewicz-Zubkowski, in The John Marshall Law Review, Vol 9, Issue 1, Article 6, p.111, Fall 1975
http://repository.jmls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2497&context=lawreview

• 90% of convictions for possession
Paper: The Twentieth Century Marihuana Phenomenon in Canada, by Clayton James Mosher, p.191, Thesis, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, 1986
http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/6335/b16556124.pdf

• 90% of convictions for possession
Paper: A Statistical Review of Arrest, Conviction and Sentencing Patterns, Department of National Health and Welfare, January 1979
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/ccp/ccp_14.htm

PAGE 43 - LeDain Commission recommends decriminalization.

• 90% of all drug convictions
Paper: Cannabis Control Policy, Chapter 2, Health Protection Branch, January 1979
http://www.cfdp.ca/canrep/chap_2.htm

• LeDain Commission
Report: The Report of the Canadian Government Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, 1972
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/ledain/ldctoc.html

• LeDain Commission
Transcript: John Lennon's Drug Testimony, The Private Hearing of John Lennon, The Le Dain Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, December 22, 1969
http://beatles.ncf.ca/lennon_inquiry.html

• LeDain Commission
Article: 3-way plan to cut drug use penalties?, Canadian Press, The Ottawa Journal, March 27 1972,
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3664452/the_ottawa_journal/

• LeDain Commission
Video: Le Dain tables final report recommending decriminalization, CBC Television News, CBC Digital Archive, June 1 1972
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/ledain-tables-final-report-recommending-decriminalization

• LeDain Commission
Audio: Le Dain report on drugs divides cabinet, Sunday Magazine, CBC Digital Archives, June 21, 1970
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/ledain-report-on-drugs-divides-cabinet

• $4 million
Book: The Real Dope, by Edgar-André Montigny, p.225, University of Toronto Press, 2011
http://books.google.ca/books?id=YLQM3GC-nMIC&pg=PA225#v=onepage&q&f=false

PAGE 44 - Many cannabis studies. Results ignored.

• Ralph Miller led a team, a 2013 interview
Article, Marijuana studies under Trudeau shelved before results analyzed, by Diana Zlomislic, The Star, April 8 2013
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/04/08/governments_research_on_marijuanas_effects_done_long_ago.html

• Another cannabis study, "I feel ripped off"
Article: Local woman took part in weird 1972 experiment in marijuana use, Waterloo Region Record, April 9 2013
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/2625988-local-woman-took-part-in-weird-1972-experiment-in-marijuana-use/

• weave colourful belts
Article: Belts for Sale, Canadian Press, The Ottawa Journal, Jan 8 1974
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3664492/the_ottawa_journal/

• data not analyzed
Article: Results from Toronto marijuana study in 1972 still not public, by Diana Zlomislic, The Star, April 8 2013
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/04/08/results_of_marijuana_study_from_1972_still_not_public.html

Video: Secret Toronto Marijuana Experiment Exposed, The Mernahuana Zone, Matt Mernagh interview with Doreen Brown, March 24 2015
http://www.pot.tv/video/2015/03/24/TMZ-198-Secret-Toronto-Marijuana-Experiment-Exposed/

PAGE 45 - Ernest Small. Definition of hemp vs marijuana.

• The Species problem in Cannabis
Book: The Species Problem in Cannabis, Ernest Small, Corpus, 1979
http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Species_Problem_in_Cannabis_Science.html?id=PGMyPwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

• Central Experimentation Farm
Article: A pot farm thriving in central Ottawa, by Peter Calamai, Montreal Gazette, p.7, Mar 2 1971
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19710302&id=s5gkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oqAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3819,257050

• called it "Hash Lane"
Article: Taking a Trip Down Hash Lane, by Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen, May 11 2013
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v13/n203/a02.html
http://www.hempforus.com/cc_june_18_2013.htm

• 0.3% THC level
Website: Frequently Asked Questions, Hemp, Health Canada, 2016
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/substancontrol/hemp-chanvre/about-apropos/faq/index-eng.php#a6

• 0.3% THC level
Website: Non-THC Hemp-seed, Hemp Cyberfarm, Hempworld.com
http://www.hempworld.com/hemp-cyberfarm_com/htms/hemp-seed/no_thc_h.html

• 0.3% THC level
Article: Industrial Hemp, Colorado Department of Agriculture
https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/agplants/industrial-hemp

PAGE 46 - 1971 Gastown Smoke-In becomes police riot.

• Gastown Police Riot
Article: 1971 Gastown Riot, Canada's Human Rights History, Historyofrights.ca
http://historyofrights.ca/encyclopaedia/main-events/1971-gastown-riot/

• Gastown Police Riot
Video: Gastown riots over Vancouver Smoke-in, CBC Digital Archives, Aug 15 1971
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/1971-gastown-riots-over-vancouver-smoke-in

• Gastown Police Riot
Article: And the Pigs went Mad!, by David Malmo-Levine and Dana Larsen, Cannabis Culture, May 1 1996
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/1996/05/01/1102

• 1971 smoke-in
Wikipedia: Gastown Riots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastown_Riots

• Operation Dustpan
Book: Debating Dissent, by Lara Campbell et al., p.123, University of Toronto Press, 2012
https://books.google.ca/books?id=Tg6571wBT3cC&pg=PA123

• "scum community" and "parasites"
Article: Death of Tom Terrific recalls rough times in late 60s, by Allen Garr, Vancouver Courier, February 9, 2012
http://www.vancourier.com/opinion/death-of-tom-terrific-recalls-rough-times-in-late-60s-1.382151

• Grasstown
Image: Advertisement for Grasstown Smoke-In & Street Jamboree, Georgia Straight, 1971
http://images.glaciermedia.ca/polopoly_fs/1.1299911!/fileImage/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/landscape_490/.png

• "we fight fires, not people"
Article: Tom Terrific and the Yippies, Forbidden Vancouver, April 23 2012
http://forbiddenvancouver.ca/tom-terrific-and-the-yippies/

• four police on horseback
Book: Canada's Rights Revolution 1937-82, by Dominique Clément, p.76, UBC Press, Jan 1 2009
https://books.google.ca/books?id=-kgS9cr2JYUC&pg=PA76

• newly-issued batons
Article: Aldermen seek probe of wild Gastown clash Vancouver Sun, Aug. 9, 1971.

PAGE 47 - Vancouver Police Riot against Grasstown cannabis rally.

• Gastown Riot photos
Photos: The 1971 Gastown riot, Glenn Baglo, Vancouver Sun, May 25 2010
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Photos+1971+Gastown+riot/3069866/story.html

• no badge numbers
Article: And the Pigs went Mad!, by David Malmo-Levine and Dana Larsen, Cannabis Culture, May 1 1996
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/1996/05/01/1102

• mercilessly beat protestors
Article: This Day in Vancouver, August 7th, The Dependent, Aug 7 2012
http://thedependent.ca/news-and-opinion/this-day-in-vancouver/day-vancouver-august-7th/

• local shopkeepers
Article: This day in history, Aug 7, 1971, by John Mackie, Vancouver Sun, Aug 7 2012
http://www.vancouversun.com/This+history+1971/7050642/story.html

• a judicial inquiry
Article: 1971 Gastown Riot, Canada's Human Rights History, Historyofrights.ca
http://historyofrights.ca/encyclopaedia/main-events/1971-gastown-riot/

• football helmets and broomsticks
Article: Helmets, Broomstick Men & the Police Riot of ‘71, by Father Theo, Father Theo's Blog, January 5, 2010
http://fathertheo.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/helmets-broomstick-men-the-police-riot-of-‘71/

• Richard Brown, eyewitness
Video: 'Grass'Town Riots 1971
https://youtu.be/UDbzVvZLw3M?t=27s

PAGE 48 - Domestic cultivation. First cannabis grow books.

• an estimated 30-50,000
Article: The re-writing of history, by Luke Stewart, University of Waterloo, Activehistory.ca
http://activehistory.ca/papers/history-papers-12/#11

• smoke the leaves
Article: Why is Cannabis Now So Different from 1970s Cannabis?, by Anna Wilcox, Leafly.com,
https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/that-strong-stuff-why-is-cannabis-now-so-diff

• smoke the leaves
Book: The 1970s, by Kelly Sagert, p.68, Greenwood Publishing, 2007 https://books.google.ca/books?id=9feBCLNhcFQC&pg=PA68

• Ed Rosenthal
Website: Ed Rosenthal
http://edrosenthal.com

• Mel Frank
Website: Mel Frank
http://www.amazon.com/Mel-Frank/e/B001KCYPAI/

• Grow Yer Own Stone
Book: Grow Yer Own Stone, by Dr Alexander Sumach, Better Red Graphics, 1973
http://www.doullbooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=111717
https://erowid.org/library/books/grow_yer_own.shtml

• Interview with Alexander Sumach
Audio: The Grass is Greener, interview with Alexander Sumach, Ryerson, 1974
http://www.danalee.ca/sumach/

• seeds they had picked out
Article: Origins of the Species, by Robert Clarke, Cannabis Culture, April 13 2006
https://web.archive.org/web/20070503095440/http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4721.html

• from new companies
Article: Sensi Seeds Cannabis Breeding History Part One, Sensiseeds.com
https://sensiseeds.com/en/info/company/about-sensi-seeds/history-of-sensi-seeds/sensi-seeds-cannabis-breeding-history-part-one/

• Sacred Seeds, Super Sativa Seed Club: http://www.hightimes.com/read/high-times-seed-bank-hall-fame-1

• Super Sativa Seed Club: http://www.420magazine.com/forums/plant-bud-photos/76234-super-sativa-seed-club-sssc-catalogues-1980-s-rare-archival-images.html

• swapping cuttings
Article: Origins of the Species, by Robert Connell Clarke, Cannabis Culture Magazine, issue 60, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20080209125259/http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4721.html

PAGE 49 - Imported cannabis and hash varieties.

• different varieties of cannabis, $30 to $120 an ounce
Article: The Strains of Yesteryear, by DJ Short, Cannabis Culture, June 28 2005
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2005/06/28/4280

• Great Books of Hashish
Website: Great Books of Hashish
http://www.thegreatbooksofhashish.com

• Laurence Cherniak
Website: Laurence Cherniak
http://www.laurencecherniak.com

• Canada's first head shop
Video: Yorkville head shop caters to needs of hippies, CBC Digital Archives, April 18 1967
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/bongs-and-muffin-recipes-in-hippie-yorkville-head-shop

PAGE 50 - Tommy Chong's first joint, early career.

• the Calgary Shades:
Article: Terminal City Confidential, by Susanne Tabata, Beatroute, April 7 2014
http://beatroute.ca/2014/04/07/tommy-chong/

• asked to leave town
Article: Counter-culture icon Tommy Chong returns to Calgary, by Kenna Burima, Ffwd Weekly, Dec 3 2009
http://www.ffwdweekly.com/music/previews/past-is-so-bright-hes-gotta-wear-shades-4901/
http://calgary420.ca/forum/index.php?topic=2416.0

• "That one joint", booking Ike & Tina Turner, The Elegant Parlour, put strippers into sketches
Article: Tommy Chong's Vancouver, by Tommy Chong, Cannabis Culture, August 24 2008
http://www.cannabisculture.com/node/10144

• Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers
Article: Bobby Taylor and the Vancouver, Discogs.com
https://www.discogs.com/artist/391233-Bobby-Taylor-The-Vancouvers

• Does Your Mama Know About Me
Audio: Does Your Mama Know About Me, by Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT_SnwdPZfA

PAGE 51 - Cheech and Chong. Big Bambu. Up In Smoke.

• Cheech Marin, to evade the draft
Article: Cheech Marin, NNDB
http://www.nndb.com/people/620/000022554/

• $5 more a week, acid tripping hippy Strawberry
Article: Tommy Chong's Vancouver, by Tommy Chong, Cannabis Culture, August 24 2008
http://www.cannabisculture.com/node/10144

• Sergeant Stadanko:
Video: Sergeant Stadanko, Cheech and Chong, Big Bambu, 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4qRvEDphs

• Abe Snidanko
Article: Ten Intoxicating Moments in Vancouver History, By Lani Russwurm, The Tyee, Dec 21 2013
http://thetyee.ca/Books/2013/12/21/Vancouver-Was-Awesome-Book/

• Abe Snidanko
Website: Abe Snidanko, Past Tense Vancouver
http://pasttensevancouver.tumblr.com/post/55933151661/stedanko1973

• Big Bambu:
Wikipedia: Big Bambu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bambu

• Up In Smoke
Wikipedia: Up in Smoke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_in_Smoke

• Cheech and Chong interview
Transcript: An Evening with Cheech & Chong at Cinefamily, Aug 4, 2013
http://cinefamily-archive.tumblr.com/post/48466424968/an-evening-with-cheech-chong-at-cinefamily

PAGE 52 - Canadian cannabis smuggler Brian O'Dea.

• Brian O'Dea
Website: Brian O'Dea
http://www.brianodea.com

• 75 tons of cannabis, about the camaraderie
Article: How I Pulled Off a $300 Million Drug Deal, by Oscar Rickett, Vice.com, July 24 2012
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-anatomy-of-a-drug-deal

• National Post
Article: I can do anything an MBA can, by Charlie Gillis, National Post, Feb 19 2001
http://lists.ding.net/mob/01/feb/msg00015.html

• High: Confessions of a Pot Smuggler
Book: High, By Brian O'Dea, Random House, 2006
http://www.amazon.com/High-Confessions-Smuggler-Brian-ODea/dp/0679312781

• How to Make Money Selling Drugs
Article: How to Make Money Selling Drugs, by Lily Rothman, Time.com, June 21 2013
http://entertainment.time.com/2013/06/21/how-to-make-money-selling-drugs-adrian-grenier-explains/

• Interview with Brian O'Dea
Video: TMZ 163 Canadian Cannabis Smuggler Brian O'Dea, Vapor Central https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xzIpP-vPJM

PAGE 53 - Cannabis comics. Politicians promise decriminalization.

• Harold Hedd
Article: Harold Hedd, by Steven Fox, Comixjoint.com,
http://comixjoint.com/haroldhedd.html

• Harold Hedd
Review: The Collected Adventures of Harold Hedd, by Steven Fox, Comixjoint.com
http://comixjoint.com/haroldhedd1-1st.html

• Rand Holmes
Article: Rand Holmes (1942-2002), by Henry Mietkiewicz, Joe Shuster Awards, 2005
https://joeshusterawards.com/hof/hof-rand-holmes-1942-2002/

• Georgia Straight:
Article: It's a Filthy, Perverted Paper, by Jesse Donaldson, The Dependent Magazine, July 13, 2010
http://thedependent.ca/featured/“it’s-a-filthy-perverted-paper”-a-history-of-the-georgia-straight/

• 40,020 convictions: Paper: A Statistical Review of Arrest, Conviction and Sentencing Patterns, Department of National Health and Welfare, January 1979
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/ccp/ccp_14.htm

• not a narcotic:
Book: The Peter Pot Paper, by Peter Curran
http://www.rainbowcoalition.ca/potpaper/p13.htm

• secret Health Canada report
Report: Cannabis Control Policy, A Discussion Paper, Health Protection Branch, Department of National Health and Welfare, January 1979
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/ccp/ccptotal.htm

• secret Health Canada report
Article: Canadian feds suppress pro-pot report, by Reverend Damuzi, Cannabis Culture, May 1999
https://web.archive.org/web/20030217095354/http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1447.html

• Pierre Trudeau
Article: Marijuana Policy and Liberal Bad Faith, by Koby, The Maple Three, May 27, 2006
http://themaplethree.blogspot.ca/2006/05/marijuana-policy-and-liberal-bad-faith.html

• Joe Clark
Article: Clark Supports Decriminalizing Marijuana, by Allison Dunfield, Globe and Mail, May 23 2001
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n927/a09.html

PAGE 54 - Margaret Trudeau. Peter Pot Papers. NORML Canada.

• 13% arrests cannabis-related, Peter Curran
Article: Peter Pot pushing hard for eased marijuana law, The Ottawa Journal, Feb 22 1978
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3687819/the_ottawa_journal/

• 250,000 Canadians criminal records, almost half under 35
Article: 1 Out Of 4 Canadians Have Smoked Marijuana, The Ottawa Journal, July 21 1979
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5386293/the_ottawa_journal/

• files on 200,000 cannabis users
Article: Lid opens on Secret Drug Files, The Ottawa Journal, Dec 19 1978
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3687768/the_ottawa_journal/

• Margaret Trudeau
Website: Margaret Trudeau, Veryimportantpothead.com
http://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/trudeau.htm

• released her memoirs
Article: Maggie Trudeau's Confessions Are Juicy Gossip, by Andrea Chambers, April 9 1979
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20073356,00.html

• "but to sniff me"
Book: Beyond Reason, by Margaret Trudeau, Paddington Press, 1979
https://books.google.ca/books?id=2vAWAQAAIAAJ
http://forums.cannabisculture.com/forums/index.php?/topic/166877-that-seventies-thread/?p=1642452

• Peter Pot Paper:
Book: The Peter Pot Paper, by Peter Curran
http://www.rainbowcoalition.ca/potpaper/titlepage.htm

• first Cannabis Day
Article: The Origin of Cannabis Day, by David Malmo-Levine, Cannabis Culture, June 27, 2012
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2012/06/27/Origin-Cannabis-Day

• attracted 2000 people
Article: Some tokin, jokin, little provokin, by Ron Newton, Edmonton Journal, July 3 1978
http://www.potshot.ca/pm/index.php?n=PS4.5

• attracted 2000 people
Article: Police were ready for trouble, by Mike Harrop, Edmonton Journal, July 3 1978
http://www.potshot.ca/pm/index.php?n=PS4.5

• 5000 attendees, CALM
Article: Smoke Signals, Editorial, Medicine Hat News, June 10 1981
http://newspaperarchive.com/ca/alberta/medicine-hat/medicine-hat-news/1981/06-10/page-4

• Easter Be-Ins
Article: Vancouver Easter Be-In, by Dave Watson, Georgia Straight, May 8, 1997
http://burnerboys.pbworks.com/w/page/11207088/Easter%20Be-In

• Easter Be-Ins
Article: Be-In Music Festival, Voices of East Anglia, July 2012
https://web.archive.org/web/20130513053553/http://www.voicesofeastanglia.com/2012/07/be-in-music-festival-vancouver-canada.html

• Jerry Kruz
Article: Counter-Culture rock revisited, BC Book Look, October 17 2014
http://bcbooklook.com/2014/10/17/counter-culture-rock-revisited/

• NORML formed
Article: Marijuana Forum Set, The Chilliwack Progress, Sept 21 1977
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3687886/the_chilliwack_progress/

• held press conferences
Article: Aid economy, end reefer madness, Ottawa Journal, Jan 18 1978
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3687897/the_ottawa_journal/

• lobbied politicians
Article: Industrial use of marijuana urged, Ottawa Journal, Nov 20 1978
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3687901/the_ottawa_journal/

• put on concerts
Notice: A Reggae Bash, The Ottawa Journal, July 12 1979
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3687912/the_ottawa_journal/

• put on concerts, Langille ran as a candidate
Article: Joint benefit dance staged for pot decriminalization, by Evelyn Erskine, Jan 11 1980
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3688009/the_ottawa_journal/

• put on concerts
Article: Gone to pot, Ottawa Journal, Feb 14 1979
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3687935/the_ottawa_journal/

• Sing-song birdseed
Article: Marijuana is strictly for the birds, Brandon Sun, Aug 31 1977
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5386304/the_brandon_sun/

• Sing-song birdseed
Article: Suspect birdseed put under counter, Canadian press, Brandon Sun, Sept 1 1977
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5386306/the_brandon_sun/

• Sing-song birdseed
Article: Canaries singing high notes?, by Paula McLaughlin, Ottawa Journal, Sept 2 1977
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5386308/the_ottawa_journal/

• Sing-song birdseed: Article: Police tests confirm marijuana in birdseed, Canadian Press, Brandon Sun, Sept 2 1977
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3688001/the_brandon_sun/

• charged with trafficking
Article: Pro-drug head busted, Ottawa Journal, Mar 31 1980
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5386313/the_ottawa_journal/

• a suspended sentence
Article: No jail for pot group leader, The Montreal Gazette, Nov 21 1980
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19801121&id=D1wxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=taQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1280,131824

PAGE 55 - Ronald Reagan. Just Say No. Drug war intensifies.

• promise to decriminalize
Article: The Great Canadian Marijuana Debate Goes On and On, by Lloyd Duhaime, Law Mag, April 19, 2012
http://www.duhaime.org/LawMag/LawArticle-1403/The-Great-Canadian-Marijuana-Debate-Goes-On-and-On-and-.aspx

• Nancy Reagan
Video: Nancy Reagan, CNN, September 1986
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQXgVM30mIY

• "take away the dream"
Speech: Just Say No, Nancy Reagan, Address to the Nation, CNN, September 14, 1986
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004/reagan/stories/speech.archive/just.say.no.html

• Just Say No
Article: Just Say No to 40 Years of Failed Policy, by Gravlax, Dailykos.com, June 17 2011
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/17/986194/-Just-Say-No-to-40-Years-of-Failed-Policy#

• "the most dangerous drug"
Book: Reefer Madness, by Eric Schlosser, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004
http://books.google.ca/books?id=_H8rvssxAsAC&pg=PA24

• saw the budget skyrocket
Book: Crime Policy in America, by Shahid Shahidullah, p.99, University Press of America, 2008
https://books.google.ca/books?id=whWL6D83FBUC&pg=PA99#v=onepage&q&f=false

• mandatory minimum jail sentences
Wikipedia: Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Drug_Abuse_Act_of_1986

• mandatory minimum jail sentences
Reagan's Drug War Legacy, by Jeralyn Merritt, AlterNet, June 18 2004
http://www.alternet.org/story/18990/reagan's_drug_war_legacy

• taken to foreign soil, South America
Paper: Perilous Panacea, The Military In The Drug War, by Ted Carpenter and R. Rouse, Cato.org, Feb 15 1990
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa128.html

• South America
Cops, Soldiers, and Diplomats, by Tony Payan, p.107, Lexington Books, 2007
https://books.google.ca/books?id=uS9WR-pUY68C&pg=PA107

• Panama
Wikipedia: United States invasion of Panama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama

• US-funded troops
Article: Paramilitaries, Drug Trafficking and US Policy in Colombia, by Samia Montalvo, Dollars and Sense magazine, July 2000
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/South_America/Paramilitaries_Colombia.html

• killed farmers
Article: In its mad and hopeless war on cocaine the US has destroyed the lives of millions of innocent farmers in Colombia, by Tessie Castillo, AlterNet, July 9 2012
http://www.alternet.org/story/156230/in_its_mad_and_hopeless_war_on_cocaine,_the_us_has_destroyed_the_lives_of_millions_of_innocent_farmers_in_colombia

• killed farmers
Article: Terrorism with a Human Face, The History of America’s Death Squads, by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, January 4 2013 http://www.globalresearch.ca/terrorism-with-a-human-face-the-history-of-americas-death-squads/5317564

• killed farmers
Article: CIA Support of Death Squads, by Ralph McGehee, RemarQ, October 9 1999
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/death_squads1.htm#Columbia

• killed farmers
Book: Cocaine, Death Squads, and the War on Terror, by Oliver Villar and Drew Cottle, Monthly Review, 2011
http://monthlyreview.org/press/books/pb2518/

• supply of cocaine
Book: Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, by Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, University of California Press, 1991
http://www.whale.to/b/scott_b.html

• fear of US retaliation
Article: An Analysis of Bill C-7, by Dana Larsen, Cannabis Culture, Feb 1 1995 (see statement by Bruce Rowsell).
http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/1995/02/01/analysis-bill-c-7

• fear of US retaliation
Article: Canada Pot Proposal Drawing US Concern, by Rogene Fisher, May 16 2003
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=79492&page=1

PAGE 56 - Reagan-Bush drug war, importing heroin and cocaine.

• Reagan-Bush administration:
Article: The CIA Drug connection under Reagan, by R.G. Price, Rational Revolution, 2003
http://rationalrevolution.net/war/cia_drug_connection_under_reagan.htm

• CIA was directly involved:
Video: Guns, Drugs and the CIA, by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, PBS, May 17 1988
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/gunsdrugscia.html

• heroin for arms pipeline:
Book: Seeds of Terror, How Drugs, Thugs, and Crime Are Reshaping the Afghan War, p.38, by Gretchen Peters, Macmillan, 2010
https://books.google.ca/books?id=V6ce1s6rg1sC&pg=PA38

• heroin for arms pipeline:
Book: The Crimes of a President, by Joel Bainerman, p.79, SP Books, 1992
https://books.google.ca/books?id=-CwkeJq6ozMC&pg=PA79

• heroin for arms pipeline
Article: Reagan legacy lingers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, by M B. Naqvi, Asia Times, June 15 2004
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FF15Ak02.html

• heroin for arms pipeline
Book: Getting Away With Murder, by Richard Mahoney, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, 2013
http://books.google.ca/books?id=FlctAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT53

• heroin for arms pipeline
Book: Opium, Uncovering the Politics of the Poppy, by Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy, p.192, Harvard University Press, 2009
https://books.google.ca/books?id=qGl4TN_qIsgC&pg=PA97

• cocaine for arms pipeline
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1998/08/total-coverage-cia-contras-and-drugs

• cocaine for arms pipeline
Article: How John Kerry exposed the Contra-cocaine scandal, by Robert Parry, Salon.com, October 25 2004http://www.salon.com/2004/10/25/contra/

• cocaine for arms pipeline
Book: Out of Control, The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection, by Leslie Cockburn, Atlantic Monthly, 1987
http://www.amazon.ca/Out-Control-Administrations-Nicaragua-Connection/dp/0871131692

• years of federal investigation
Wikipedia: Kerry Committee report
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Committee_report

• The CIA admitted
Article: The CIA, Contras, and Drugs, by Eric Umanskyaug, Mother Jones, August 25 1998
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1998/08/total-coverage-cia-contras-and-drugs

• Gary Webb
Article: The truth in Dark Alliance, by Nick Schou, Los Angeles Times, August 18 2006
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/18/opinion/oe-schou18

• Gary Webb
Article: Gary Webb Was Right, by Marc Levin, Huffington Post, October 24 2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-levin/gary-webb-was-right_b_6024530.html

• Dark Alliance
Articles: America's crack plague has roots in Nicaragua war; Shadowy origins of crack epidemic; War on drugs has unequal impact on black Americans; by Gary Webb, Mercury News, August 1996
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

• Dark Alliance
Book: Dark Alliance, by Gary Webb, Seven Stories Press, 1999
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Alliance-Contras-Cocaine-Explosion/dp/1888363932

• Dark Alliance
Video: Dark Alliance, Gary Webb Interview, C-Span, 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKE2XL24FG4

• director of Eli Lilly
Article: Eli Lilly, Zyprexa & the Bush Family, by Bruce Levine, Z Mag, May 2004
http://psychrights.org/articles/LevineLillyandBush.htm

• More Americans were imprisoned
Book: Crime and Punishment in America, by Elliott Currie, Metropolitan Books, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/currie-crime.html

• More Americans were imprisoned
Wikipedia: United States incarceration rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate

• surpassed every other nation
Wikipedia: List of countries by incarceration rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate#United_States

• Reagan death penalty:
Article: Reagan Announces Anti-Drug Campaign, by Merrill Hartson, Associated Press, August 4 1986
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1986/Reagan-Announces-Anti-Drug-Campaign/id-1c9f527eb048a4583d25c9984ad92f20

• Reagan death penalty:
Article: Reagan suggests cabinet submit to drug testing, Associated Press, Reading Eagle, August 4 1986 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19860804&id=zhsiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-6YFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1729,3925845

PAGE 57 - Canada bans bongs, pro-cannabis literature.

• Brian Mulroney announced
Book: Dependent America?, by Stephen Clarkson and Matto Mildenberger, p.245, University of Toronto Press, 2011
http://books.google.ca/books?id=OetM6YrPD5AC&pg=PT245

• Brian Mulroney announced
Book: Chasing Dragons, by Kyle Grayson, p.259, University of Toronto Press, 2008
http://books.google.ca/books?id=SL83P9aNjakC&pg=PT259

• Section 462.2
Criminal Code: 462.2 - Offence and Punishment, Yourlaws.ca
http://yourlaws.ca/criminal-code-canada/4622-offence-and-punishment

• the same law prohibits
Article: Bongs and grow books banned in Canada!, by Dana Larsen, Vancouver Sun, May 16, 2013
http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2013/05/16/bongs-and-grow-books-banned-in-canada/

• made no exception, over 2000 stores
Decision: Iorfida et al. v. MacIntyre et al., Ontario Court, General Division, Ellen MacDonald J., October 5, 1994
http://www.efc.ca/pages/law/court/Iorfida.v.MacIntyre.html

• Grow Yer Own Stone seized
Website: Grow yer own stone, Canada 1974, Independent Drug Monitor
http://www.idmu.co.uk/oldsite/book28.htm

• High Times and Grow Yer Own Stone
Article: Firefighters find marijuana plants, by Roxanne Beaubien, London Free Press, May 5 1998
http://www.marijuanalibrary.org/980505.html

• Jack Herer
Article: The hero of hemp, by Paul Rogers, Free Culture, December 2010
http://jackherer.com.s216995.gridserver.com/about-2/

• Jack Herer
Video: Emperor of Hemp, Double J Films, 1999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDRP7rv8ZXc

• Captain Ed Adair
Video: Captain Ed Adair on Time 4 Hemp, Jack Herer TV, Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCyZWEKJvrQ

• The Emperor Wears no Clothes
Book: The Emperor Wears No Clothes, by Jack Herer, Queen of Clubs Publishing, 1992
http://jackherer.com.s216995.gridserver.com/emperor-3/

• Herer visited Toronto
Video: Toronto Marijuana Mardi Gras, Freedom Party Ontario, July 19 1992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3OWc2I1Ykc

• Herer visited Vancouver in 1993
Post: Eighties Cannabis Culture, by KingAmongKings, January 4 2010
http://forums.cannabisculture.com/forums/index.php?/topic/167691-eighties-cannabis-culture/page-5

PAGE 58 - NORML Canada. Anti-literature law defeated in court.

• raided the offices, NORML membership list, decision wasn't appealed, applies only in Ontario
Article: Freedom of Expression is NORML, by Chris Clay et al, Cannabis Culture, January 2 1998
https://web.archive.org/web/20141119060155/http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1278.html

• took them to court
Article: A Father Speaks Out, by Bill Carroll, NORML Canada, January 1996
http://members.iowatelecom.net/sharkhaus/article1.html

• overturned the literature ban
Decision: Iorfida et al. v. MacIntyre et al., Ontario Court, General Division, Ellen MacDonald J., October 5, 1994
http://www.efc.ca/pages/law/court/Iorfida.v.MacIntyre.html
http://caselaw.canada.globe24h.com/0/0/ontario/superior-court-of-justice/1994/10/05/iorfida-v-macintyre-1994-7341-on-sc.shtml

• rarely have problems
Article: Winnipeg head shop reopens after police raid, CBC News, May 17 2013
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-head-shop-reopens-after-police-raid-1.1344221

• harassed and raided
Article: Selling Drug Paraphernalia a Pithy Criminal Substance, by Linda McKay-Panos, ABlawg.ca, March 4 2013
http://ablawg.ca/2013/03/04/selling-drug-paraphernalia-a-pithy-criminal-substance/

• in smaller communities:
Article: RCMP tell second Prince Rupert store to take pipes, bongs off the shelf, by Martina Perry, The Northern View, June 20 2013
http://www.thenorthernview.com/news/212331621.html

• in smaller communities:
Article: 30 march to support the sale of bongs at Tripping Daisy, by Rick Owen, KL Northern News, March 3 2015
http://www.northernnews.ca/2015/03/02/30-march-to-support-the-sale-of-bongs-at-tripping-daisy

PAGE 59 - Indoor growing spreads. Police "Green Teams."

• Metal Halide bulb
Wikipedia: Metal Halide Lamp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal-halide_lamp

• books on growing
Search: How to grow marijuana, Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?&field-keywords=how+to+grow+marijuana

• $2000 to $2500
Article: Police fear gang war over pot, by Chad Skelton, Vancouver Sun, June 10 2005
https://web.archive.org/web/20060127011358/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/specials/websterawards/story.html?id=ae971b40-4ac7-43c9-bcd6-e7807130af20

• a pound of cannabis
Report: Targeting Marihuana Growing Operations in British Columbia, by Jordan Diplock and Darryl Plecas, p.2, University of the Fraser Valley, August 2013
http://www.surrey.ca/files/targetingmarihuanagrowingoperationsinbc.pdf

• specialized grow stores
Article: The rise of indoor hydroponic growing, Manix Botanix
http://www.manicbotanix.com/sitemap/47-the-rise-of-hydroponics.html

• Sea of Green
Article: Sea of Green (SOG) Marijuana, How to Grow Marijuana
http://howtogrowmarijuana.com/sea-of-green/

• first indoor grow room
Post: Eighties Cannabis Culture, by KingAmongKings, January 4 2010
http://forums.cannabisculture.com/forums/index.php?/topic/167691-eighties-cannabis-culture/page-5

• 1500 indoor gardens
Transcript: In Canada Marijuana Grows Like Well a Weed, by Martin Kaste, National Public Radio, July 6 2005
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4732092

• didn't lay a single charge
Article: 100 Raids, No Arrests For Police Pot Squad, by Chad Skelton, Vancouver Sun, December 11 2000
http://mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1859/a04.html

• In 2005, BC municipalities
Report: Targeting Marihuana Growing Operations in British Columbia, by Jordan Diplock and Darryl Plecas, p.9, University of the Fraser Valley, August 2013 http://www.surrey.ca/files/targetingmarihuanagrowingoperationsinbc.pdf

• By 2010, ten cities
Article: War on grow-ops in BC has unexpected casualties, by Robert Matas, The Glove and Mail, Jan 11 2011
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/war-on-grow-ops-in-bc-has-unexpected-casualties/article1866458/

PAGE 60 - Hell's Angels and Vietnamese cannabis growers.

• Hell's Angels
Article: The Hells Angels and Organized Crime, Gangsters Out,
http://www.gangstersout.com/haog.htm

• Hell's Angels
Article: BC's Hells Angels, Rich and Powerful, by Lori Culbert and Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun, June 10, 2005
http://web.archive.org/web/20060217153534/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/specials/websterawards/story.html?id=a42e5b7a-f7a9-42f2-b5fc-b48eb22a2983

• Hell's Angels
Article: The Hells Angels' devilish business, by Andy Serwer, Fortune, 1992
http://fortune.com/2012/12/02/the-hells-angels-devilish-business-fortune-1992

• In 1994, 325 pounds
Report: BC Bud, Growth of the Canadian Marijuana Trade, by Drug Enforcement Administration, Intelligence Division, December 2000
https://totseans.com/totse/en/drugs/marijuana/161759.html

• In 1998, 4000 pounds, by 2004, 20,500 pounds
Article: Violent New Front in Drug War Opens on the Canadian Border, by Sarah Kershawmarch, New York Times, March 5 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/05/us/violent-new-front-in-drug-war-opens-on-the-canadian-border.html

• smuggling tunnel
Article: Drug tunnel found under Canada border, by Terry Frieden, CNN, July 22 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/21/border.tunnel/

• less than 2%
Report: Canada-United States Border Drug Threat Assessment, Government of Canada and the Government of the United States, October 2004
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/archive-us-cnd-brdr-drg-2004/index-eng.aspx

• Vietnamese groups
Article: Why do Vietnamese grow so much dope?, by Michael Gray, 2007
http://www.michaelgray.ca/writing/dope/dope.html

• were Vietnamese growers
Article: Police fear gang war over pot, by Chad Skelton, Vancouver Sun, June 10 2005
https://web.archive.org/web/20060127011358/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/specials/websterawards/story.html?id=ae971b40-4ac7-43c9-bcd6-e7807130af20

• uncovered a network
Article: Grow-op king duped 54 homeowners, by Peter Small, The Star, May 5 2009
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2009/05/05/growop_king_duped_54_homeowners.html

• sentenced to 5 years: 60-13
Article: Real estate agent jailed, fined $1M for grow-op scheme, by John Goddard, The Star, December 22 2009
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2009/12/22/real_estate_agent_jailed_fined_1m_for_growop_scheme.html

• tracked down in Bucharest
Article: Grow-op suspect busted after being spotted in newspaper photo, by Peter Edwards, The Star, May 12 2011
http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2011/05/12/growop_suspect_busted_after_being_spotted_in_newspaper_photo.html