International Press Release

[Alison Myrden]

International Press Release

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

OCTOBER 6, 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

MEDICAL MARIJUANA -- ONTARIO COURT OF APPEAL TO RULE ON PRECEDENT SETTING

CASES AFFECTING CRITICALLY AND CHRONICALLY ILL CANADIANS

 

For more information, please contact:

 

Counsel:

 

Alan Young -- 416-964-1999 -- alany@yorku.ca

Paul Burstein -- 416-204-1825 -- paul@127john.com

Joseph Neuberger -- 416-364-3111 -- joseph@nrlawyers.com

Leora Shemesh -- 416-364-9020 -- leora@nrlawyers.com

 

Litigants:

 

Alison Myrden - (905) 681-8287 - myalison@cogeco.ca

- www.themarijuanamission.com

Marylynne Chamney

Catherine Devries

ari Dvorak

Warren Hitzig/The Toronto Compassion Centre

Marco Renda

Debbie Stultz-Giffin

Stephen VandeKemp

 

Alison Myrden, Federal Medical Marijuana Exemptee, and one of the litigants in

Hitzig et al. v. Her Majesty the Queen (C39532; C39738; C39740) will be joining

York University Law Professor Alan Young as well as other counsel and litigants

for formal release of the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal in this

matter.

 

This appeal was heard on July 29th and 30th of this year, along with other cases

brought forward by Windsor, Ontario lawyer Brian McAllister on behalf of a young

offender, and epilepsy patient Terrence Parker Jr., among others.

 

DATE/TIME: Tuesday, October 7, 2003 at 10:00 AM

 

LOCATION: Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

Osgoode Hall is located at:

130 Queen Street West

Toronto, Ontario M5H 2N5

Phone 416-947-3300 or 1-800-668-7380

(Corner Queen Street West and University Avenue, near Osgoode Subway Station)

 

Hitzig v. HMTQ is a precedent setting lawsuit in which seven critically and

chronically ill people, as well as their caregiver from the Toronto Compassion

Centre -- a total of eight people -- sued the Federal Government of Canada for a

safe and reliable source of marijuana as medicine.

 

The lawsuit demands that the Canadian government provide a legal, consistent and

affordable source of therapeutic cannabis to sick and dying people in Canada, or

provisions of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act -- which is the basis of

Canadian cannabis prohibition -- are dead.

 

Says Myrden, "We are then prepared for a ripple effect across our country,

through every province, allowing this law to be freed entirely. Join us Tuesday

morning for this intriguing, important international media release. The world is

watching!"

 

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[sols]

g'day; on the 7th october, the Ontario Court of Appeal, overturned its previous decision of calling the mj possession laws dead. the court stated that the law is dead and the government must enact new laws, however, the court has now "changed its mind" thereby breaking constitutional laws by enacting a law when the court system has no right to enact a law.

cannabis is now illegal again in Canada.

unfortunately, no Canadians were informed that cannabis was legal for the 21 months before the 7th.

Supreme court will hear the last appeal, not sure of date.

 

for more info visit..... www.pot-tv.net