Pregnant Marijuana Seller Jailed

[The GCW]

CN NK: Pregnant Marijuana Seller Jailed
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n880/a08.html?397

New Brunswick Woman Ran 'Cannabis Cafe', Claimed Drug Sold Only To Medicinal Users

A New Brunswick judge has sentenced a pregnant woman to jail -- forcing her to have her baby behind bars this summer -- for selling marijuana in what she claims was a compassion club for medical users.

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Lynn Wood loses everything for one gram first offence

by Marc Emery (02 Jun, 2005)

Judge Murray Cain in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, sentences wonderful med-pot martyr to one year in grim jail.

There was a very rigourous membership requirement at the HEMP NB Medical Marijuana store in Saint John New Brunswick. You needed a sworn affidavit before a notary stating you had a medical condition which you believed marijuana alleviated. Or you needed a section 56 exemption card issued by the Canadian federal government. Or you needed a signed letter from your doctor which HEMP NB verified by calling your doctor. One of those three.

So although it was unusual when the club received its first underage application, the circumstances were compelling. A 15 year old said he had a pin in his arm from surgery and needed pot to deal with lingering pain. He even went so far as to swear before a notary public in a sworn affidavit that this was so. His application was then accepted. Apparently, he would sell some of that pot to his friends at school.

When cops arrested the teen for selling, charges against him were dropped if he would provide testimony against HEMP NB. It would take a long time for the police to gather evidence though. All the other members of the HEMP NB Compassion Club were bona-fide, including four section 56 exemptees, and all others with confirmed and compelling doctor's endorsements. There was nothing odd about any other member that police could intimidate or abuse.

So in order for Saint John police to get actual evidence, they would go undercover and make applications at the Compassion Club. Except, as the police on the witness stand admitted, their bogus applications were always rejected by HEMP NB. The police videotaped the front door of HEMP NB for months and could find no other anomalies. So then a police officer named Brian Hutchison came into HEMP NB and submitted an application with a letter from his doctor. His application was left to an employee to verify because, as Jim Wood explained, "we had an actual wedding going on in HEMP NB that day, and this guy wanted his application fast tracked, so I gave the application to an employee to verify. Normally I would check the doctor's name in the phone book and call their office. You typically talk to a secretary and you confirm the patient exists with that condition."

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CN NK: Pregnant Woman Gets A Year For Selling Pot http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n881/a05.html?397

[Brother Adam]

Oh yeah....the crime really fits the punishment doesn't it? Someone should take that judge's gavel and do this with it --->

[Brother Adam]

Oh yeah....the crime really fits the punishment doesn't it? Someone should take that judge's gavel and do this with it --->

[indicaspice]

Seems a bit harsh even for Canadian law. Might expect this in the states but....
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