Raw Foodists Arrested When Their Chocolate is Mistaken for Hashish
Thu, Sep 25, 2008 2:37 pm
Source: NaturalNews.com
When Ron and Nadine from the Living Libations beauty care and chocolate company (www.LivingLibations.com) attempted to fly to the United States in August of this year, they ran into something completely unexpected: Drug-sniffing dogs at the Toronto airport. When their dogs took a special interest in their raw, unrefined chocolate with hemp seeds and superfood extracts, they were arrested, handcuffed and put through hours of tortuous interrogation. Such begins the journey of Ron and Nadine, the chocolate freedom fighters from Canada.
Accused of trafficking two and a half pounds of hashish (which was really just raw, homemade chocolate), Ron and Nadine were arrested, physically separated into interrogation rooms and handcuffed to chairs. Their six-month old baby was forcibly taken from them, and they were immediately subjected to intense interrogation.
Their chocolate looked suspicious, they were told, because it wasn't in a commercial wrapper. If it's not Hershey's, it must be drugs! An on-the-spot drug test from the NIK company (which makes portable drug testing kits) returned a positive result, the Canadian police claimed, and that's all the evidence they need to arrest anyone.
As you'll learn later, however, it turns out the NIK drug testing kits return false positives nearly 100% of the time if the results are interpreted incorrectly, as they were in this case... (see photos below).
Is this Canada, or Gitmo?
Emboldened by the positive drug test on the two pounds of raw chocolate, Canadian drug agents scrambled to action. They hadn't seen a big drug bust in a long time, and excitement was brewing over the possibility of nabbing someone with a whopping two pounds of hashish! Thus, the tyrants of law enforcement went to work on Ron and Nadine, using Guantanamo Bay tactics to try to force them to admit to being hashish drug traffickers.
Over the next several hours, Ron and Nadine were interrogated by the Canadian equivalent of FBI agents who verbally assaulted them using every lying, deceitful police interrogation tactic in the book. They screamed at Ron and Nadine, threatened them with years in prison and even told each of them that the other had already confessed to drug trafficking, trying to trick them into admitting to crimes they never committed. (There is no law that says police have to tell the truth when they are interrogating you, even for false arrest, by the way.)
Through the entire episode, Ron and Nadine resisted the tactics, held their ground and continued to hold positive intentions. "As I was sitting in the cell," Ron told NaturalNews, "I kept focused on light and truth. I felt like no matter what was happening around me, I was opening up a gateway of light and total truth."
After the interrogation, the threats of "life in jail" and other dishonest tactics used by law enforcement to try to get them to "admit" to drug trafficking, they were finally released on bail. Their baby son was returned to them, and they went home. For the next 30 days, they were subjected to surprise visits by Children's Aid employees (the Canadian version of Child Protective Services), who were told by law enforcement authorities that Ron and Nadine were drug smugglers.
Over this 30 day period, as felony drug trafficking charges were pending against them, Ron and Nadine managed to connect with legal help. Their lawyer, Marcy Segal, was able to persuade the Crown Attorney to send the chocolate "hashish" sample to a proper lab for testing. And wouldn't you know it: The test showed that chocolate is chocolate, not hashish.
The charges were dropped, but no apology was ever offered to the couple. Instead, Canadian law enforcement authorities declared, "You must have been smoking something before you came to the airport."
(No doubt someone in this story was on crack, but it doesn't seem to be Ron and Nadine...)










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Oct 3 2008, 4:30 pm
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Oct 2 2008, 3:48 pm
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Sep 30 2008, 2:35 pm
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HU210
Sep 30 2008, 6:46 am
This guy is one of the main reasons we are as screwed as we are today.
As a Libertarian,he is a poser at best.
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Sep 30 2008, 6:33 am
Hazy Purple
Sep 27 2008, 9:09 pm
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Sep 27 2008, 5:56 pm
=/ is an idiot
Sep 27 2008, 5:07 pm
=/ is an idiot
Sep 27 2008, 5:03 pm
black george
Sep 26 2008, 6:23 pm
Jorge, tell me more about this fantasy world in which you live. It sounds like a pretty impressive place. Nonexistent, sure, but nice nonetheless.
ONCE WAS
Sep 26 2008, 5:25 pm
Our banks are in trouble and the DOLLAR is dropping to almost nothing. We are having a alot of first in this country also ( First African American presidental canidate, 1st women running for vice president )
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DEPRESSION IS COMING AND THE FUSE IS SHORT!!! JUST A MATTER OF TIME UNTIL WE SEE A COLLAPSE AND A POSSIABLE CILVIL WAR!!!!
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Sep 26 2008, 3:04 pm
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Sep 26 2008, 2:44 pm
ceanf
Sep 26 2008, 1:34 pm
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Sep 26 2008, 12:41 pm
Maybe the writer? Put down the dope, straighten up, cut your hair and get a real fucking job. They should have thrown these two drug criminals in jail.
jonniecumlately
Sep 26 2008, 12:21 pm
Guilty till proven innocent...
ED
Sep 26 2008, 11:47 am
camtafari
Sep 26 2008, 11:37 am
LovesToSmoke
Sep 26 2008, 11:36 am
This has nothing to do with THE PEOPLE being the militia, that is for the STATE to form. A state with a well regulated militia and an unarmed citizenry will tyrannize NOT secure a free state.
At the state level those well regulated militia's are the police forces, at the national level it is the armed branches of the military, the FBI, CIA and DEA etc. The right to bear arms is the right to defend ourselves against an unjust, corrupt state. What happened to this couple is EXACTLY why we have this amendment!
Frank
Sep 26 2008, 10:24 am
"This is the Real reason for our Second Amendment."
What? What does the Second Amendment have to do with this?
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Sep 26 2008, 9:59 am
LovesToSmoke
Sep 26 2008, 7:17 am
jorge cervantes
Sep 26 2008, 7:08 am
420Viper
Sep 25 2008, 3:52 pm
A prime example of law enforcement stupidity. Now you know why I call them lawbots.
Bithlostoner15
Sep 25 2008, 2:59 pm
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