VICTORIA (CP) – A medical marijuana activist was fined $500 Wednesday for lighting up five joints at a pro-pot rally.
Leon Edward (Ted) Smith, 35, was found guilty of marijuana trafficking after he lit up five marijuana joints at a pro-marijuana rally at the University of Victoria in November 2000. A provincial court judge rejected Smith’s arguments that he had a constitutional right to smoke marijuana.
Wait! What’s that? “A provincial court judge rejected Smith’s arguments that he had a constitutional right to smoke marijuana”?
Ding ding! Justice Minister Cotler! That’s your cue to employ the Supremes! Get the Supreme Court division of the Liberal Party on this file!
Don’t pot-smoking rights “flow from” the constitution? You know they do!
“His behaviour could only be described as poking his finger in the eye of the law,” said Judge Judith Kay. “What Mr. Smith was doing was illegal. What Mr. Smith was doing is trafficking.”
[…] Smith’s lawyer argued for a conditional discharge, saying it would be unfair to sentence his client for sharing a joint when millions of Canadians do the same thing on a regular basis.
No fair! Other people do it! “Millions”!
“This is the wrong kind of time, completely inappropriate time period to be handing out harsh sentences,” said lawyer Robert Moore-Stewart. “It will be counterproductive in the extreme not to give a conditional discharge.”
At a time when Canada is considering relaxing its marijuana laws, he said sentencing Smith for trafficking for sharing marijuana would send out the wrong message.
Hey this isn’t the liberal-left message! It’s the wrong message! COTLER!
Smith runs a marijuana buyers club out of a downtown Victoria bookstore.
Smith’s buyers’ club provides pot, including marijuana peanut butter cookies, to people who produce verification they are ill and could benefit from it.
Last month, Smith received a conditional discharge on trafficking charges laid when police seized cookies and massage oil from his buyer’s club that contained marijuana resin.
Trafficking charges against Smith relating to a police raid on his bookstore in 2002 were stayed earlier this month, but he still faces other marijuana charges laid in March for a marijuana cookie giveaway he staged.
Once they’re done with the emergency gay ‘marriage’ legislation which is top priority in this nation—like I had to tell ya!—then they’ll get right on the pot-smoking file, so that our youth can get high on drugs and help attract—and keep—the best and brightest to this land. Vote liberal!
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