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Marijuana Activist Given Suspended Sentence! 
Posted by FoM on January 06, 1999 at 05:35:27 PT

REGINA Marijuana activist Grant Krieger was given an 18-month suspended sentence Tuesday for drug trafficking. Krieger, 44, said no sentence will change his ways. 
Krieger says he smokes pot to ease the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and plans to keep smoking during his probation. He also intends to keep selling marijuana to others for medicinal purposes. Krieger pleaded guilty last month to possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. He was convicted of a similar charge in Alberta last year and fined $500. Justice Fred Kovach said he chose not to send Krieger to jail because he truly believes he needs marijuana. Kovach said it wasn't his job to debate whether marijuana has medicinal qualities and had to consider the "exceptional or extraordinary circumstances" in the case. 
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on January 06, 1999 at 14:03:32 PT
It's Just So Wrong!
It was entrapment and you and your family are one of the main reasons I wake up everyday looking and hoping for some measure of common sense to return to the leaders of our once very good country! It must stop before we destroy ourselves from within like my Father told me would happen when I was young. He told me that's what the Russian Leader at that time said about the United States of America and I'm seeing it come to pass!
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Comment #1 posted by UaN on January 06, 1999 at 06:52:40 PT
circumstances
Well, this justice is a breath of fresh air. I have always felt (after 10 years of working in the court system) that judges should take each case individually and sentence accordingly. There should not be a uniform sentence in just about any case. Circumstances should carry some weight, esp in drug cases. Just as in mine and my husbands case, we were set up by the police and a 2 time DUI offender and the judge should have seen that we were not out selling marijuana...this friend of ours said he was having a problem and wanted help and being the friends we were we helped him out and got him marijuana. That type of situation should be taken into consideration. This was a case of entrapment by the law enforcement and the DUI offender to stay out of jail. That seems more criminal than what we did, which was to help out a friend in need!
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