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Compassion Club Vows To Keep Providing Pot
Posted by FoM on September 19, 1999 at 15:16:50 PT
By Brock Ketcham 
Source: Calgary Herald 
A network of ill people will carry on the work of Universal Compassion Club - the cultivation and distribution of marijuana to seriously ill people - now that criminal drug charges have put its founder out of action.
Calgary police charged club founder Grant Krieger - who has multiple sclerosis - with cultivation and possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking after finding two pot plants on Aug.25 in a back yard in the northwest community of Bowness. United (sic) Compassion Club spokeswoman Nona Czayka, 37, who has fibromyalgia, said she and her 40 fellow club members find that the illegal drug alleviates their suffering.`No one is going to be asked to put themselves at risk by cultivating or distributing pot in their homes,' said Czayka. `That's too much of a risk. I just can't allow our clients to put themselves out like that.' Krieger, who launched the Calgary branch of the compassion club in June and linked it with similar clubs elsewhere in Canada, was released recently on bail from Calgary Remand Centre. He promised the Court of Queen's Bench that he will not distribute the drug, though he will continue using it.Police said they spotted the plants when they went to the Bowness home to charge him with breach of probation in connection with a previous trafficking conviction. Investigators later raided the house and found more under cultivation, police said. Czayka said she and her fellow medicinal pot users now are `more determined than ever' to keep the fledging club alive. `We're being staffed by the sick and dying,' she said. `We will continue to take care of the sick and dying no matter what.' Det. Pat Tetley, a drug expert with the Calgary police drug unit, said the police gives lawbreakers no slack.`We enforce the law. We cannot be philosophical about that.' he said.Krieger said he has given up the battle while the criminal charges remain before the courts.'I will not cultivate,' he said. `I will not distribute. I have given my word.' Krieger has asked for a trial by a Court of Queen's Bench judge and jury.A trial date will be set on Oct.13 at his next court appearance.http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n1024.a06.html/all Pubdate: Sun, 19 Sept 1999 Source: Calgary Herald Related ArticleJudge Frees Frail Krieger Until Pot Trial - 9/09/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread2816.shtml
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