TORONTO - Ross Rebagliati had just finished smoking his seventh joint of the day. But he was not high, he said, or stoned, or baked or whatever else one might assume another human being would be after smoking their seventh joint of the day - by 3:30 p.m. "I am just keeping an even keel," Rebagliati said, adding that cannabis use is all about individual tolerance and dosing. Smoke or eat too much and a user risks feeling anxious, or paranoid. But the 1998 Olympic snowboarding champion who rocketed to fame in Nagano for winning the gold - before rocketing to infamy for testing positive for marijuana afterwards - definitely wasn't paranoid. He was kicking back against a brick wall, and puffing away, in clear view of a Toronto streetcar stop while an immense cloud of marijuana smoke hovered over nearby Dundas Square. [continues 592 words]
Olympian Rebagliati touts pot as a performance-enhancing drug Ross Rebagliati had just finished smoking his seventh joint of the day. But he was not high, he said, or stoned, or baked or whatever else one might assume another human being would be after smoking their seventh joint of the day - by 3:30 p.m. "I am just keeping an even keel," Rebagliati said, adding that cannabis use is all about individual tolerance and dosing. Smoke or eat too much and a user risks feeling anxious, or paranoid. But the 1998 Olympic snowboarding champion who rocketed to fame in Nagano for winning the gold - before rocketing to infamy for testing positive for marijuana afterwards - definitely wasn't paranoid. He was kicking back against a brick wall, and puffing away, in clear view of a Toronto streetcar stop while an immense cloud of marijuana smoke hovered over nearby Dundas Square. [continues 689 words]
Rebagliati says it can improve sports results TORONTO - Ross Rebagliati had just finished smoking his seventh joint of the day. But he was not high, he said, or stoned, or baked or whatever else one might assume another human being would be after smoking their seventh joint of the day - by 3:30 p.m. "I am just keeping an even keel," Rebagliati said, adding that cannabis use is all about individual tolerance and dosing. Smoke or eat too much and a user risks feeling anxious, or paranoid. But the 1998 Olympic snowboarding champion who rocketed to fame in Nagano for winning the gold - before rocketing to infamy for testing positive for marijuana afterwards - definitely wasn't paranoid. He was kicking back against a brick wall, and puffing away, in clear view of a Toronto streetcar stop. [continues 455 words]
Liberal Party CFO Turns Legal Weed Into Big Bucks Chuck Rifici was 28 years old and newly rich, with $500,000 in the bank, a windfall he reaped after selling the Internet start-up he launched as a second-year engineering student at the University of Ottawa. To celebrate his sudden wealth he did a few practical things, such as buying an apartment in Ottawa and setting aside enough dough to pay for an executive MBA at Queen's University, and a few age-appropriate and impulsive things, like getting a silver Dodge Viper luxury sports car. He eventually traded in the fast car for a more practical ride upon learning, as the young and newly rich often do, that riches have a way of running out faster than the newly rich can find ways of spending them. [continues 752 words]
J.D.'s voice is ragged. It tears from someplace deep inside his throat. He says he is sick, and broke. It is 10 a.m. in Kelowna, B.C., and the 35-year-old heroin addict is craving his morning fix. "I've been using for 23 years now," J.D. says. He knows about the lethal batch of high-potency heroin that has hit B.C.'s Lower Mainland. It is killing addicts in alleyways and in their beds, in Kelowna, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Surrey, Burnaby and Vancouver. [continues 734 words]
