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Canada: House arrest for pot activist
Sudbury Star Friday 10 Aug 2012 David Sylvestre was sentenced to 10 months under house arrest after pleading guilty to production of a controlled substance – cannabis and cannabis resin – he said he used to treat severe diabetes.?Sylvestre, 54, was also charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking and possession of property obtained by crime in February 2009, after a search warrant executed at his St. Charles home turned up almost $100,000 worth of illicit substances. Those charges were withdrawn. Police seized 37 pounds of marijuana, 12 pounds of cannibis oil or resin and $1,300 in cash at Sylvestre's home. Sylvestre appeared in the Superior Court of Justice before Justice Robbie Gordon, who heard submissions from Sylvestre's lawyer, Denis Michel, and Crown prosecutor Denys Bradley before delivering his sentence. Michel was seeking a conditional sentence of house arrest for his client and Bradley was seeking a jail sentence of nine to 12 months.? About 40 supporters of Sylvestre's, in favour of the medical use of marijuana, packed into Courtroom J to lend support to the man who ran for the Green Party of Ontario against Sudbury Liberal MPP Rick Bartolucci in the 2007 election. Michel said his client had never been in trouble with the law and was a practitioner of natural medicine who derived a product from marijuana he thought was a “miracle cure” for controlling diabetes. Sylvestre has post-secondary education in chemical engineering, and was growing marijuana and experimenting to see whether it could replace the conventional medications and insulin he was taking for diabetes. http://www.thesudburystar.com/2012/08/10/house-arrest-for-pot-activist
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