cannabisnews.com: Medical Pot Case Adjourns Again Medical Pot Case Adjourns Again Posted by CN Staff on August 24, 2002 at 15:06:40 PT By Robert Freeman Source: Chilliwack Progress A medical marijuana court case was adjourned for a third time this week by a B.C. Supreme Court Justice in Chilliwack. Justice Brian Joyce also denied a request for an interim court order to allow Steve Kubby to possess marijuana for medical purposes. “The judges are going to have his blood on their hands if he’s arrested and goes to jail again,” Mr. Kubby’s wife Michele said after the court ruling Monday. She says if her husband’s access is blocked in jail to the marijuana that he is being forced to buy illegally due to the court delay, he could die. Mr. Kubby, a U.S. marijuana activist seeking refugee status in Canada, is asking the court to grant a medical exemption from pot possession laws. Lawyer John Conroy says the court now has evidence from “two top notch cancer specialists” that his client should be allowed to use the drug in the large amounts that he requires. “What we had to try and convince Justice Joyce to do was strike down the regulation as unconstitutional,” Mr. Conroy says, but there was no court time available to make that argument Monday. He says his client could legally obtain morphine and heroin in just a few hours based on the seriousness of his illness, but those drugs are more harmful than marijuana. However, the lawyer says he is “very optimistic” Mr. Kubby will have a medical exemption from Health Canada by the Aug. 26 court hearing. Federal Health Minister Anne McLellan appeared to be backing away from a $5.7 million program to supply medical marijuana to patients, but a Health Canada spokesman in Ottawa says there is no change in policy. Medical exemptions continue and clinical trials of marijuana will go ahead. More than 800 exemptions have been issued so far. The Supreme Court of Canada will hear three cases of non-medicinal pot on Dec. 13, but it could be a year before a court ruling is made. Source: Chilliwack Progress (CN BC)Author: Robert FreemanPublished: August 23, 2002Copyright: 2002 The Chilliwack ProgressContact: editor theprogress.comWebsite: http://www.theprogress.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Pot-TV http://www.pot-tv.net/'Life and Death’ Medical Marijuana Case Delayed http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13681.shtmlPot Club Offers 'Compassion'http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13655.shtmlFleeing North - AlterNethttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13400.shtmlDrug Refugees - Report Newsmagazinehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13224.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #5 posted by Naaps on August 26, 2002 at 16:27:44 PT I hear you, Kapt’ I can visualize the vacuous face of my Canadian Alliance MP, whom at first word of the DEA setting up shop in Canada, I contacted asking the who, what, when and why they were here. Well, he didn’t know, and today probably still doesn’t know, though he pledged to get back to me.What to do? Canada is so tied to the American economy that every politician fears anything that could possibly disrupt the $1.3 Billion of business daily. Meanwhile, our armed forces are integrating closer to yours. Our police, anxious themselves for more power, are nuzzling close to any US agency with money. Harmonization and Integration seem to be the buzzwords of the federal government. The political will to be independent is flaccid.Truthfully, the readers of CannabisNews are cognizant of the problems associated with prohibition, but the average Canadian doesn’t necessarily give a hoot. The busting of compassion clubs affects the health and well being of the entire community, but after a raid the consequent rally to support the club doesn’t necessarily even have the registered members crying aloud. In reality, such a bust should have 3 or 4 times as many people as actual members protesting, because they should have their families, caretakers, friends and supporters decrying the bust.Meanwhile, DARE is still being promoted in schools. Drug Consolers still pass out their Drug Watch International propaganda. The Canadian Medical Association balks at medicinal marijuana. Politicians, like Canadian Alliance MP Randy White, still cuddle up to IDEAS’ Linda Bentall. All while, the RCMP press their luck using Operation High Seas, busting compassion clubs across the country, and giving press interviews claiming there is a serious threat that only they can control. The people control industry pushes forward, unswerving like a juggernaut. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by kaptinemo on August 26, 2002 at 15:24:28 PT: Why NOW? You have to ask: Why is it, after years of quiet service to the sick and dying, when these clubs could have been busted long ago, why NOW?For the answer, you only have to look South to see the trail of slime left by the DEA in their back-and-forth across the border.Who runs the Canadian police? Canadians? Or DEA? [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by FoM on August 24, 2002 at 22:19:28 PT Heads Up: The Sunday Edition - CBC Radio Program 9:00 AMGuest host Erika Ritter talks with Lester Grinspoon, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and the author of "Marijuana, the Forbidden Medicine." Also, Michael Enright's conversation with American Poet Laureate Billy Collins, and more in Paul Kennedy's series "Learning From Our Oceans. " That's The Sunday Edition, right after the 9 a.m. news (9:30 NT) on CBC Radio One. http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/thismorning/sunday.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by SirReal on August 24, 2002 at 21:42:37 PT I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take..... http://www.barbneal.com/wav/uncat/clinhale.wav [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by The GCW on August 24, 2002 at 19:11:24 PT UPDATE in Canada CAGING A HUMAN FOR USING A PLANT.(You'd think Canadians are tired of this) http://www.hempbc.com/articles/2580.html Sunshine Coast Compassion Club raided by Dana Larsen (24 Aug, 2002) Founder Lisa Kirkman and her baby held by police for 2 hours.On Friday, August 23 at about 4pm, the Sunshine Coast Compassion Club was raided by Gibsons RCMP officers.Police officers, acting on a warrant, took club founder Lisa Kirkman and her baby daughter to the local RCMP station where they were held for two hours.Police searched the club and seized about a quarter pound of medicinal marijuana. Kirkman is likely to be charged with possession for purposes of trafficking.For more information, contact the Sunshine Coast Compassion Club at 604-886-6519, www.sunshinecoastcompassionclub.org [ Post Comment ] Post Comment