Marijuana once again legal in Ontario, Canada

[Pete Capelli]

Yeah - might want to hold off on that for now ...

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1070925607028&call_pageid=968332188492

-p

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Meehan" <cypherpunks at salvagingelectrons.com>
To: <cypherpunks at lne.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 7:54 PM
Subject: Marijuana once again legal in Ontario, Canada


> An unforeseen consequence of government incompetence.
>
> http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25324
>
> TORONTO - Ontario Consumers for Safe Access to Recreational Cannabis is
happy to
> inform consumers that, because of Health Canada's failure to implement
> constitutional Medical Marijuana Access Regulations, wide-open marijuana
> legalization is back in Ontario!
>
> "The police will likely still have their 'business as usual' public
relations
> line, but since Health Canada has defied the order of the Ontario Court of
> Appeal by not allowing a grower to supply multiple patients, as ordered,
the
> MMAR is unconstitutional," said Tim Meehan, communications director of
OCSARC.
>
> "Because it's unconstitutional, that means that according to the Parker
decision
> by the same court in 2000, the possession of marijuana law is dead once
again."
>
> OCSARC reminds people that while they might still be arrested and
prosecuted by
> police and prosecutors who refuse to acknowledge the status of the law,
they may
> seek substantial financial compensation later. "This is a notice to police
that
> while they do have the power to arrest harmless marijuana smokers, they
will be
> doing so at their own peril. Cannabis consumers will not allow themselves
to be
> treated as second class citizens, and many will be armed with legal
information
> and representation in case the harassment continues," said Meehan.
>
> OCSARC (Ontario Consumers for Safe Access to Recreational Cannabis) is a
> Toronto-based organization working to end prohibition and promote reasonab
le and
> responsible regulation and quality assurance in the cannabis market.