newbie you wont get 10 years for two joints in Canada.

know the law if you are going to break it is my theory.

ok so for pot up to 30 grams of pot, or 1gram of hash you are looking at a summary offense which is a maximum punishment of 6 months and 1000$ fine.

no one is going to prison for 10 years for two joints in our country.

If you are known for selling weed it will be likely you will charged with possession as a hybrid offense, if its you first time caught again 6 months and a 1000$ fine, second offense you get a year and a 2000 fine. subsequent offenses you can face up to 5 years imprisonment.

but i have never heard of someone getting five years right off the bat for a first offense over a small amount of weed.

remember sentencing is also based on precedent. so even if you get an activist judge (i hate judicial activism) there is only so much they can do within reason.

possession of] cocaine you are looking at 6 months 1000$ for the first time, second time you are looking at 1 year 2000. the most you can get is 7 years and thats for larger amounts and subsequent offenses.

for trafficking up to three kg of weed you are looking at an indictable offense the max punishment is 5 years less a day. if you have more then three kgs you are looking at the max of life imprisonment.

for trafficking coke is an indictable offenses and has a max punishment of life imprisonment.




Clearly we can see the vast disparity in the sentencing between weed and coke. Ignorance is no excuse of the law, she lives in Vanier and does coke and weed im willing to bet money on the fact that she was involved with things she shouldn't have been. i live in the same city and no one is busting my door down and shooting my roommates dog. I deal with the same police when i go out at night.

Honestly, of four years studying crime and law i am very very bitter about police action, and the things the police do. they target people, they improperly investigate, falsify evidence. its all been done in canada and the states. Im also bitter about judicial activism (judges teaching people a lesson so to speak). but do i get mad and hot under the collar about this....no. She did have drugs, she was using drugs, and likely was not discrete about it at all if she got busted. if the police see a pit bull in a situation like that they will shoot it. if you own a pit bull you know that. my friend owns one and he is careful with it because there are no second chances with those dogs in ontario.

She had drugs in her house, the police shot dogs who are seen to be a danger. they searched her and her daughter in jail. well, yeah, thats what they do in jail if they think you might have things stashed on you. it sucks, thats why you damn well don't get caught if you are going to use drugs. searching people when they are being held is for their own, and for other peoples protection and is not out of line.


I get just as pissed off as the next person over improper police action. But you have to face the fact that this is not actually one of those times.

im not any more likely to believe the word of the police over hers....but i think the Ottawa sun is the biggest trash news paper in the world. next to the Toronto sun maybe.

i accknowledge that the police treat people in her situation fairly poorly. but the fact is, she did have drugs in her possession. so them raiding her home, and shooting dogs that are known to be dangerous, searching her and her daughter in jail.....is not actually out of line.

it sucks for them, but its all pretty standard when it comes right down to it.