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Ill Man Wins Court Battle Over Marijuana 
Posted by CN Staff on June 22, 2002 at 20:26:22 PT
By Kevin O'Connor, Regina Leader Post 
Source: Regina Leader-Post 
An ailing Lloydminster man who was convicted of drug charges but says he uses marijuana for health reasons has won a victory in front of Saskatchewan's highest court. On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal agreed to reduce Barry Neil Malanchuk's sentence to the approximately five months already served under a form of house arrest. "It was a fair decision under the circumstances," Malanchuk said Friday. "I haven't really celebrated, though."
Malanchuk, 41, has diabetes, glaucoma, kidney disease, heart disease and other maladies, but he says smoking marijuana helps ease his symptoms.In August 2000, the RCMP charged him after finding eight full-grown marijuana plants inside his house and a number of smaller plants outside in his garden.On January, 2002, following a three-day trial, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Peter Dielschneider found Malanchuk guilty of possession of marijuana, possession of cannabis resin and production of cannabis for personal use.He received a 15-month conditional sentence, which banned him from using marijuana and restricted movement from his home. When Malanchuk appealed to the Court of Appeal last month, the court reduced his sentence to nine-months but he was still banned from using non-prescription drugs.However, May 9 the same day the court heard his case, Health Canada issued a medical exemption to Malanchuk allowing him to produce and possess marijuana.Complete Title: Ill Man Wins Court Battle Over Marijuana ConvictionSnipped: Complete Article: http://www.canada.com/search/site/story.asp?id=2495CEB3-C547-4776-81E7-CFB82282F08DSource: Regina Leader-Post (CN SN)Author: Kevin O'Connor, Regina Leader Post Published: Saturday, June 22, 2002 Copyright: 2002 The Leader-Post Ltd.Contact: letters leaderpost.comWebsite: http://www.canada.com/regina/leaderpost/Canadian Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/can.htmCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml 
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Comment #2 posted by E_Johnson on June 22, 2002 at 22:07:38 PT
Being sick is already being in jail
Chronically people are in a jail that nobody can ever let them out of on appeal.House arrest in your own body.Marijuana makes sick people feel free in that prison they can't get out of.
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Comment #1 posted by p4me on June 22, 2002 at 21:42:16 PT
Article in the UK Guardian 
There is an article in the Sunday Guardian about the one year anniversary of the Lambeth Project called "Brixton? Right now it's a 24-hr crack supermarket." at http://www.observer.co.uk/drugs/story/0,11908,742364,00.htmlOne policeman wants to be able to hold people suspected of swallowing cocaine in jail until it has time to pass through the suspects system. And I thought p4me was bad.1,2 
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