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Canada: Guilty verdict for Cannabis Cafe
CBC News
Monday 21 Feb 2005 SAINT JOHN =97 The owner of the Cannabis Cafe in Saint John has been found= =20 guilty of drug trafficking. Lynn Wood had based her defence on the idea that her cafe was a compassion= =20 club, selling marijuana only for medical purposes. But in a written decision, Judge Murray Cain said the argument was a sham. He said the Cannabis Cafe didn't even live up to the guidelines that=20 compassion clubs set for themselves. For example, the trial heard evidence that it sold marijuana to almost=20 anyone, including a 15-year-old high school student. It also held a raffle on a bong to mark the end of classes. The defence had argued that the cafe functioned as a compassion club=20 because it only sold to members. Those members were required to produce a doctor's certificate or swear an=20 oath that they had a legitimate medical condition. The court heard from several people with medical problems who said the=20 quality of their lives had been vastly improved by smoking marijuana from=20 the cafe. Wood's defence lawyer, Richard Northrup, gave this reaction to the verdict: "Is the client disappointed? Of course, they're disappointed. What would=20 you expect them to be?" Northrup said. "But what I have to do is look at=20 the judgment and see what the client wants to do." Wood will be sentenced on May 12. The Cannabis Cafe says it has not sold marijuana since the June bust,=20 though it remains open.
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