Cannabis is Legal in Canada!

[Guest niall]

Well as I've alluded to over the last 5 years, cannabis is now legal in Canada. Commercial production and trafficking aren't explicitly covered, yet - but legal experts believe the legality of this side of the industry can also be successfully argued based on the same sequence of case law.

 

The Government is kicking and screaming and pretending that it isn't true, but it is. Coming to a newswire near you!

 

OH CANADA

 

http://thepotlawhasfallen.ca

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

http://thepotlawhasfallen.ca/PR1/index.html

2007 November 14

 

Canada's prohibition of the possession of marijuana has once again

been declared to be constitutionally invalid and of no legal force or

effect.

 

In a judgment released yesterday of a decision he rendered in Oshawa

on October 19, Justice Edmondson of the Ontario Court of Justice

dismissed charges against three young men accused of simple

possession

of marijuana, declaring that "there is no offence known to law which

the accused have committed."

 

Justice Edmondson said that he found to be "persuasive" the reasoning

of a judgement released on July 13 and 26 by Justice Borenstein (also

of the Ontario Court of Justice) which had previously found the

prohibition to be invalid; both judges declared that the Medical

Marijuana Access Regulations are unconstitutional, which

automatically

makes the overall prohibition legally invalid.

 

"This has been my view for years," said Prof. Doug Hutchinson, a

professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and himself an

authorized user of medical marijuana. "The prohibition of the

possession of marijuana has been invalid since 2001 July 31, the

anniversary of the Parker ruling." He publicly predicted that he

would

be able to prove the invalidity of the prohibition to the first judge

he could get to consider the arguments; and this prediction was

fulfilled on October 19 in Oshawa.

 

Professor Hutchinson now calls on the Provost of Trinity College and

the President of the University of Toronto to recognize that the

marijuana prohibition is invalid and to abandon their illegitimate

attempt to enforce on campus this invalidated law. He calls on the

Deputy Director of the Ontario Region of the Federal Prosecution

Service to withdraw charges in all pending cases of marijuana

possession in Ontario, and he calls on the Deputy Attorney General of

Canada to withdraw charges in all pending cases in Canada.

 

Hutchinson also calls on all Canadian citizens to spread the word

about the fall of the law, to render assistance to any Canadians

accused under the invalid law, and to refuse to recognize the

validity

of any alleged marijuana prohibition, unless a future prohibition

comes to be legitimately enacted by Commons and Senate in proper

democratic fashion.

 

For the Canadian Press story about this case, released today at 17:00

EST, go to:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/AL...TimaZFtPjpG9zmQ

 

For this press release in web page form, with live links and further

details about this case and its implications, visit

http://thepotlawhasfallen.ca/PR1/index.html

 

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Contacts:

 

Prof. D. S. Hutchinson

Fellow of Trinity College

Professor of Philosophy

University of Toronto

Phone: (416) 978-8259

Email: thepotheadprofessor@gmail.com

 

Philippe Lucas

Founder and Director

Vancouver Island Compassion Society

Phone: (250) 884-9821

Email: phil@drugsense.org

 

Edwin Pearson

Legal scholar

Phone: (905) 634-9049

Email: ed2411@sympatico.ca

 

Eric Nash

Court Qualified Cannabis Production

and Usage Expert

Phone: (250) 748-8614

Email: eric@westcoastdigital.com

[Tom]

They'll have to fix it in the next few sittings of parliament or they are going to get the arses sued off them for all the false arrests, invasion of privacy and over all the damage done during the raids.

 

[WantDaChronic]

They'll have to fix it in the next few sittings of parliament or they are going to get the arses sued off them for all the false arrests, invasion of privacy and over all the damage done during the raids.

 

hopefully by then it'll be too late, but only time will tell

 

none the less, fuck yeah go canada hopefully other people will be able to use this world wide

[Zaknefain]

I'm actually crying right now.

[torture]

well to change it would require an ammendment to the constitution.... might take a bit longer than a few sittings ;p, and hopefully by then the current government will be out on their arses

[DownUnderDoper]

a change to the constitution would likely require a referendum

[bufo marinus]

I had a look at the news sites, specifically the Canadian ones, when this thread was posted the other night, and I couldn't find it?

Is this no more than a legal glitch, or should we be jumping up and down?

[Guest niall]

Well... you could describe it as a legal glitch for the Government. They're denying that it is true, but the facts are it is. They are kicking and screaming trying to publicly deny this, but all to no avail - it should be rammed home and get national media attention over the next week.

 

There is an appeal for Long in progress by the Crown, so this may change the landscape and the series of decisions, but it's all repeatable as fundamentally the Government fucked up and they know it. Once a law is found unconstitutional, then null and void, that's it! Any court in Canada can declare this, the lowest court is fine and this doesn't need to be appealed back and forth or to be recognised by higher courts to be binding.

 

If it continues to stand then the only way cannabis can be illegalised is via Parliament, which will require an actual debate based on the facts for the first time in modern history.

[Tom]

If it continues to stand then the only way cannabis can be illegalised is via Parliament, which will require an actual debate based on the facts for the first time in modern history.

I really hope they can't dig their way out of this as it will be the greatest threat to the US government’s stupid war on mj yet, it would cost the US billions to secure that border plus their mj laws are argued to be unconstitutional as well.

 

[grok]

...and although countries are meant to be soverign with their laws and politicians are meant to be servants who enforce what the majority of the people in their country want(gasp)...once one or two countries fully allow or legalise cannabis i think it will be like an avalanche with many others quickly following suit....since most peeps are sheeps...hehehehahahahohoho!!!