Cannabis News on 4th March, 2005

• Pot Not The Problem Here
  Greg Weston, The Ottawa Sun
  

  Within hours of the horrific killing of four young RCMP officers by a rifle-toting lunatic on an Alberta pot farm, everyone from politicians to police and pundits was pointing fingers at the scourge of marijuana grow operations.

• Drugs bill 'scuppered by dirty tricks' claim
  Clitheroe News
  

  THERE were allegations of Labour “dirty tricks” as Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans failed in his attempt to toughen up Britain’s drug laws.

• Four Mounties Killed in Bloody Canadian Drug Raid
  Jeffrey Jones, Reuters
  

  Four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers were shot and killed during a raid on a marijuana-growing operation in rural Alberta on Thursday, in one of the bloodiest days in the history of the national police force, a senior official said.