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CN ON: Police Must Return Man's Marijuana
ccguide Wednesday 28 Jun 2000 Pubdate: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 Source: Toronto Star (CN ON) Copyright: 2000 The Toronto Star Contact: Address: One Yonge St., Toronto ON, M5E 1E6 Fax: (416) 869-4322 Website: http://www.thestar.com/ Forum: http://www.thestar.com/editorial/disc_board/ Page: F2 Author: Jim Wilkes, staff reporter Related: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n593/a03.htm http://www.mapinc.org/ drugnews/v00/n844/a05.htm POLICE MUST RETURN MAN'S MARIJUANA Jim Wakeford will get his pot back. The 55-year-old Toronto man, the first Canadian granted legal permission to smoke and grow marijuana for medicinal purposes, has won a court order forcing Peel Region police to return a shipment of the drug they seized on May 11 at Pearson International Airport. Yesterday in Brampton, Madam Justice Kathy Hawke ordered police to take the pot - originally sent from a British Columbia "compassion club" - to Wakeford's home no later than tomorrow. Police had said without such an order returning the marijuana would be illegal. "In our view, that's just nonsense," Wakeford's lawyer Louis Sokolov said, noting the crown did not oppose the order. "They should have simply admitted their mistake . . . Instead they made him hire a lawyer, go to court and have a court order issued." Wakeford, who has full-blown AIDS, received an exemption from Health Canada last year allowing him to smoke marijuana for medical relief. He agreed to let health officials share that information with police "so this wouldn't happen," Sokolov said. "For some reason, either the government didn't provide the information or the police ignored it." - --- MAP posted-by: Eric Ernst
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