cannabisnews.com: Canada's Highest Court To Hear Marijuana Case Canada's Highest Court To Hear Marijuana Case Posted by CN Staff on March 31, 2003 at 19:46:01 PT By Cheryl Wierda Source: Abbotsford News An Abbotsford lawyer will have a second opportunity to challenge the constitutionality of Canada’s pot laws this spring, but worries that a delay in the federal justice minister’s decision on the decriminalization of marijuana will delay the case again. Lawyer John Conroy is representing Victor Eugene Caine, one of three appellants claiming the cannabis laws violate rights protected under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Caine was busted for marijuana possession almost 10 years ago, when RCMP officers in White Rock noted a strong smell of marijuana coming from a van in which Caine and another man were parked. The partly smoked joint Caine produced for officers weighed 0.5 grams. David Malmo-Levine of Vancouver and Ontario’s Christopher James Clay are the other men challenging the constitutionality validity of the law. Conroy was originally scheduled to argue the case on behalf of Caine in December. However, the case was adjourned, primarily because the Supreme Court of Canada judges were not comfortable with the discrepancy between the government’s stand in court and Justice Minister Martin Cauchon’s position. Last winter, Cauchon said he was considering decriminalizing the possession of a few joints. That decision has reportedly been put off until summer – after Conroy’s client is scheduled in Canada’s highest court. Conroy learned last week that the case has been re-scheduled for May 6. It will be the first time a constitutional challenge of Canada’s marijuana laws is heard in the country’s highest court. Source: Abbotsford News (CN BC)Author: Cheryl WierdaPublished: March 29, 2003Copyright: 2003 Hacker Press Ltd.Contact: editor abbynews.comWebsite: http://www.abbynews.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Cannabis News Canadian Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/can.htmPot Charges Could Be Stayed Across Canadahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15828.shtmlMarijuana Decriminalization Possible by Summerhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread15766.shtmlSupreme Court To Rule on Pot Lawhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13994.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #3 posted by JSM on April 01, 2003 at 02:57:07 PT Everwood Has anyone here besides me seen the lastest episode of this Warner Bros show? It was dealing with medical marijuana and ended with the conservative mainline doctor actually supplying it to an sick patient for pain and acknowledging its potential. I think this is significant as it shows attitudes slowly but surely changing. Joyce N. and her ilk do not stand a chance if mainstream television continues to portray cannabis in a positive manner for helping the sick. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by afterburner on March 31, 2003 at 21:25:35 PT: Now Is Not the Time for the Faint of Heart. "Log in, tune in, and take over," says Michelle Kubby.The momentum of the last 30 years of cannabis reform will not yield to the lies of John P. Walters, the junk science he quotes, the outrageous lying advertisements he perpetrates, or the brainwashington clones in state and local NGO's. Giving up now with our tails between our legs just because the world is being fragmented by war is a "dog that won't hunt." The local, provincial, and federal prohibitionists who claim they are protecting the children of Canada are misinformed. Criminal sanctions against medical and spiritual users of cannabis destroy families and futures. Caging medical cannabis patients or their providers or adult spiritual seekers does not reflect a just society. Stop playing hide and seek with the courts. Be a man. Take the action you promised. Stop stalling.ego destruction or ego transcendence, that is the question. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by The GCW on March 31, 2003 at 20:43:48 PT There are many different weapons attacking the discredited practice of caging humans for using a plant, in Cannada.We'll need rehab centers to treat the prohibitionists that will have to give up the physical addiction of caging humans for using a plant. Something for when they get the shakes... (it will need a name) The Joyce Nalepka Rehabilitation Center for Prohibitionism. (yeahhh - franchise it)Where Your urine's Yours (B.Y.O.U.) [ Post Comment ] Post Comment