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Pot Activist Fuming at Easy Ride
Posted by FoM on September 03, 2000 at 12:07:54 PT
By Ethan Baron -- Calgary Sun
Source: Calgary Sun
An American movie star hopped happily away from a Calgary drug charge, leaving a local pot activist reefer mad. Dennis Hopper pleaded guilty to a marijuana possession charge for bringing 12 grams of dope into Calgary's airport on a flight from L.A. in 1999. His high-profile Toronto lawyer Edward Greenspan on Friday won Hopper an absolute discharge in provincial court in Calgary. 
"He bought the system," said multiple sclerosis sufferer Grant Krieger, 46, who has appeared in court more than 30 times on pot charges related to his medicinal marijuana use. "If you're rich enough, you can get off. Canada isn't supposed to be a land of double standards or preferences or prejudices." But he said it was the fact that Hopper's expensive lawyer got the actor off, rather than the discharge itself, that irked him. "Why should he have a criminal record over a little bit of pot? You look at me, and I have a massive one, all for pot. "It allows me to walk." Nona Czayka was less irate and more hopeful over Hopper's legal coup. "Let's face it, it's who you know," said Czayka, director of Universal Compassion Centre at a fund-raiser for the pro-cannabis lobby group at Rosemont Community Centre in northwest Calgary. Hopper's penalty is quite different than people she's know who've had "their children removed, homes sold to pay for lawyers and criminal records" for similar offences. "Punishments are pretty harsh and out-of-line," said Czyaka, who treats her fibromyalgia, an inflammatory disease, with cannabis. "My life fell apart until cannabis. People think it's evil but it's not." Published: September 3, 2000 Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB)Copyright: 2000 The Calgary SunContact: callet sunpub.com Address: 2615 12 Street N.E.Calgary, Alberta T2E 7W9Fax: (403) 250-4180Website: http://www.canoe.ca/CalgarySun/Forum: http://www.canoe.ca/Chat/home.htmlRelated Articles:Hopper's 'Easy Ride' On Drug Charge http://mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1300/a01.htmlDennis Hopper Gets Off Pot Chargehttp://mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1297/a03.html
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Comment #1 posted by Martin Damskov on September 03, 2000 at 12:44:13 PT:
More and more
More and more it appears that money and influence separate the rights of the many for the excess of the few.. Life is not fair we all know that, but one would expect that a little justice and even handedness would occur in the courts and legal system.
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