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Medical Marijuana Club Activists Launch Order-By-Web Site After Judge

In Quebec Stays Possession And Trafficking Charges

 

MONTREAL -- Pot in Canada may soon be a click away with the launch of a

home-delivery service for medical marijuana over the Internet.

 

Marijuana activists in Montreal announced the start-up of

http://www.marijuanahomedelivery.ca/ shortly after a Quebec judge threw

out possession and trafficking charges yesterday against two volunteers

at a medical marijuana club.

 

Quebec Court Judge Gilles Cadieux said authorizing those who are ill to

use marijuana in Canada while depriving them of a legal source violates

the right to life and liberty under the Charter.

 

Judge Cadieux stopped short of invalidating Canada's pot laws, saying

such a decision is up to higher courts. But he ordered a stay of

proceedings against Alexandre Neron and Marc-Boris St-Maurice, who

faced charges of possession and trafficking after Montreal police

raided their Compassion Club in 2000 and seized marijuana.

 

Mr. St-Maurice immediately declared a moral victory and convened a news

conference to announce the launch of a new marijuana-by-mail service

for the ill in Canada, opening a new frontier in the challenge to the

country's pot laws.

 

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Pubdate: Fri, 20 Dec 2002

Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)

Copyright: 2002, The Globe and Mail Company

Website: http://www.globeandmail.ca/

Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/168

Author: Ingrid Peritz

Video: http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/12/19/pot_021219

Continues: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n2302.a08.html