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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:38 pm Post subject: Judge wants medical marijuana user to get pot in jail |
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2007/03/27/marijuana-medical.html
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A medical marijuana activist in Calgary was sentenced Tuesday to four months in jail for trafficking in marijuana, but the judge ruled that correction officials must make sure he has access to the drug while behind bars.
Grant Krieger, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and has legal permission to smoke marijuana for medical purposes, had previously admitted to sending two packages of marijuana to Manitoba in 2003 and 2004.
Provincial court judge William Pepler said Tuesday that incarceration is appropriate, but he is delaying Krieger's time behind bars until June to allow corrections officials to figure out how they will administer medical marijuana to him.
Pepler said although he recognizes that Krieger has a special constitutional right to receive marijuana to alleviate pain, the federal government has a program for people in Krieger's situation and Krieger must now comply with the law.
Outside court, Krieger said his condition had worsened when he was previously jailed for similar offences without access to marijuana.
"I had to sit in a wheelchair, couldn't walk."
Krieger said he will keep defying the law because not all the people who need medical marijuana are getting access to the federal program.
John Hooker, Krieger's lawyer, said most people would agree that ill people who need the drug should be able to get it.
"I think the law is in conflict with the general feeling of the population. This is a medicine that should be given to sick people."
Supreme Court overturned unrelated conviction
In October, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned an unrelated conviction, ruling the trial judge erred by directing the jury to find Krieger guilty.
The judge at Krieger's trial in 2003 instructed the jury to "retire to the jury room to consider what I have said, appoint one of yourselves to be your foreperson, and then to return to the court with a verdict of guilty."
Two jurors objected, one on religious grounds and the other on grounds of conscience. They asked to be excused from the case, but the judge refused the request.
The top court ruled that the judge deprived Krieger of his constitutional right to a trial by jury when he gave his instructions.
"The trial judge's direction was not a 'slip of the tongue' to be evaluated in the context of the charge as a whole," the court wrote. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| People have free access to whisky and vodka, and they are more harmful than marijuana to your health. I am not so keen on the hard drugs, because they create more damage in society. In the case of this man, what is being done to him, may be viewed as a violation of his human rights by many Canadians. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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We are now giving drugs to cons?
The guy broke the law. Boo hoo he has MS. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Ah Jinju you must be a compassionate conservative? How is it that I say coalition troops should lose or freethought says the Goddess gave Tony Snow cancer as punishment for lying and we are called in sensitive? Yet you basically call for an MS patient to be cruelly and unusally punished and thats ok. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Octavius Hite wrote: |
| Ah Jinju you must be a compassionate conservative? How is it that I say coalition troops should lose or freethought says the Goddess gave Tony Snow cancer as punishment for lying and we are called in sensitive? Yet you basically call for an MS patient to be cruelly and unusally punished and thats ok. |
1. He is a con
2. Pot is illegal
3. Pot doesnt cure his condition
I see no reason to give a con access to illegal drugs. It is in no way cruel punishment to cut off access to illegal substances. Marijuana does not cure or help manage his condition.
Compassionate? Just because he has MS I should feel compassion for him? I dont feel compassion for CRIMINALS. Sing it with me
CRIMINALS |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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I love sing-a-longs:
MORON
MORON
Facking MORONS
I'm so excited! |
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jmbran11
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: U.S.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, the point is that for this patient (according to Canadian law) pot is not illegal. It's a medication. If he were taking some other medication for pain, he would have to be given access to that. His conviction was related to trafficking not possession.
The fact that some people enjoy pot does not make it non-medicinal. Many people enjoy painkillers as well, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't allow any injured people to have them. The government has no duty to prevent people from enjoying themselves.
Personally, I think all prisoners should have access to pot. My guess is that it would decrease prison violence substantially. |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Testicles for Eyes
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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| jmbran11 wrote: |
Personally, I think all prisoners should have access to pot. My guess is that it would decrease prison violence substantially. |
From what I've heard, a lot of them do. |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:11 am Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
We are now giving drugs to cons?
The guy broke the law. Boo hoo he has MS. |
Not all laws are just.
Slavery was legal.
A woman's right to vote was once illegal.
Booze was once illegal.
Have homosexual relations was once illegal.
Interracial marriage was once illegal. |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| Is it just me or is Jinju the epicenter for negative energy on this board. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:52 am Post subject: |
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| Oh no, its not you. Our little cold warrior is bound in negative energies. |
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riverboy
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| Marijuana does not cure or help manage his condition |
His doctor says it does.
Once again, I see Jinju being an authority on all things makes it so. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| endo wrote: |
| jinju wrote: |
We are now giving drugs to cons?
The guy broke the law. Boo hoo he has MS. |
Not all laws are just.
Slavery was legal.
A woman's right to vote was once illegal.
Booze was once illegal.
Have homosexual relations was once illegal.
Interracial marriage was once illegal. |
Wow, comparing SLAVERY to not being able to smoke pot. talk about lack of perspective. |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Of course I'm not literally comparing them you moron.
I'm just making the point that not all laws are just. I thought even you would be able to see that. I guess not dumb azZ! |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Jinju: The less he posts, the more intelligent he becomes. |
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