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CANADA: Man To Face Jail Cell With Help Of Pot

Kevin Martin

Calgary Sun, The (Canada)

Thursday 11 Jan 2001

CANADA: Man To Face Jail Cell With Help Of Pot
Pubdate: Thu, 11 Jan 2001
Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB)
Website: http://www.canoe.ca/CalgarySun/
Author: Kevin Martin


MAN TO FACE JAIL CELL WITH HELP OF POT

The controversial court ruling allowing drug crusader Grant Krieger to grow his own pot is being challenged by the prosecution.

But the Crown may be facing a more pressing dilemma in its fight with the Calgary man -- what to do when he shows up for jail with his own home-grown marijuana.

Krieger, 46, said yesterday he will begin serving a 22-day sentence on Jan. 22 for not paying two fines for breaching probation.

At that time he'll bring with him more than 100 grams of pot -- which he needs to alleviate the pain he suffers from multiple sclerosis, he said.

PAIN UNBEARABLE

"I'm not going to jail in a wheelchair," said Krieger, who has been left unable to walk in the past when forced to refrain from taking marijuana to ease his pain. "Either I'm going to have more charges ( for trying to take the drug into jail ), or they're going to be letting me into the remand centre with a quarter pound of pot," he said.

Krieger won a landmark ruling last month allowing him to grow marijuana for his own use.

Justice Darlene Acton said it was "absurd" the federal government grants medical exemptions to its possession laws, but provides no way to get the drug.

"There is no legal source for cannabis," she noted. "The exemption triggers the absurdity that to obtain a product one has to take part in an illegal act."

Krieger said he can't have his marijuana delivered to his jail cell on a daily basis because that would make the courier guilty of a criminal offence.

"The laws are a mess," he noted.

Federal drug prosecutor Scott Couper yesterday filed an appeal of Acton's ruling.

Couper said he could not talk about the appeal because Krieger still faces an outstanding charge for possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, set to go to trial in June.

 

 

 

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