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Pot activist jailed for third time during his cross-country "Summer of Legalization" tour.


A self-proclaimed crusader for legalizing marijuana had to cut short his summer tour plans yesterday after he was arrested for smoking pot on the Main Street steps of the Codiac Regional RCMP Moncton detachment.

A second individual believed to be from the Moncton region was arrested when he also proceeded to "toke up" in front of police. Marc Emery and his girlfriend, Cheryl Redick, both of Vancouver, held a protest in front of the police station yesterday afternoon, drawing media attention and interested spectators to the cause he has been promoting in his Summer of Legalization Tour.

Emery, wearing a dark suit and well-groomed, told his listeners that he is crossing Canada telling law enforcement people and the general public that simple possession and use of marijuana is no longer a criminal offence as a result of a ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal three years ago this month.

The Ontario high court ruling allowing smoking for medicinal purposes set the wheels in motion. The court put the federal government on notice to amend the existing legislation within a year or the offence of possession would become null and void in Ontario. No action was taken by the federal government at that time.

Emery is convinced the ruling means that no one can be prosecuted for possessing and smoking marijuana in Canada.

Emery was in Halifax Saturday as part of his grassroots campaign and smoked marijuana in front of the metro police station without being arrested, he said.

"I’ve only been arrested twice, in Winnipeg and Regina," for smoking marijuana, he told the approximately 40 people in attendance.

Emery and Redick planned to take their crusade to Charlottetown today until Emery’s arrest by RCMP Cpl. Reg Smith.

Redick did not smoke any marijuana and was not arrested.

A young man standing nearby also lit up and was also arrested. However, friends of his said he has permission from the medical faculty to smoke marijuana to relieve chronic illness. The federal government recently amended legislation to allow smoking of the substance for medical reasons in certain cases and conditions.

Emery said thousands of people, many of them young adults, have been charged with simple possession since the Ontario high court ruling three years ago and that it was the duty of the courts across the country to strike down those criminal convictions which can greatly affect a person's future.

Being thrown into jail away from family and future has a far more devastating effect than smoking pot, he said.

Note: Vancouver man lights up outside police building during cross-country tour.

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The Marijuana Party of British Columbia advocates a platform of Choices, Options and Tolerance. We believe that people should be free to make decisions about their own bodies and how they wish to live their lives, without undue intrusion by the government or police.

As members of an oppressed and outlawed culture, many of us have experienced first-hand the indignity of police harassment, arrest and government persecution because of our personal beliefs and lifestyle choices.

We want to reverse the trend towards more government control over our daily lives, and stop the political weakness which prevents new thinking and innovative solutions to the problems which currently face us.

Our policies are aimed at maximizing the ability of all British Columbians to control their own destiny, and limiting the ability of the government and police to interfere with our peaceful, personal activities and beliefs.

Marc Emery
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Antediluvian

It's probably time to rename the tour ,maybe something like ,"Marc Emery Spends the Summer in Jail Tour".
I admire Marc..............ha ve for some time.
But he overestimated his support this time.
Nobody cares.

Pepper_I

There was no arrest on Prince Edward Island on Thursday.

The media has reported every protest on the tour and has spread the word very effectively. This has had an effect. The proof can be seen in Canadian courts these days as judges in Ottawa and across Ontario are simply dismissing the charges against people because the charges have no legal merit. The Canadian government has finally conceded there is no existing law against possession of marijuana in Ontario.

Here is part of the explanation:

Upon recieving this notification the Police are hereby informed that there are currently no Laws regarding cannabis use and possession in the Country of Canada. As you have ben notified of the current legal situation regarding cannabis in Canada to arrest Marc Emery or other Canadians for simple possession may be construed as false arrest. As your fellow Canadians we urge you to immediately cease and desist the illegal arrest of innocent Canadians.

The Rogin Decision means the Federal Laws regarding marijuana in Ontario are null and void. The P.E.I. R. vs Stavert Decision indicates that this same situation should hold to the Canadian Federal situation as a whole.
"Justice Rogin agreed that the federal government had failed in its obligation to change the law to allow for medical use of marijuana, and so the entire law was void. This decision is binding on Ontario's lower courts, which means that no-one can be convicted of pot possession in Ontario. This effectively means that marijuana is now legal in Canada's largest province." <a href="http://www.johnconroy.com/rogin.pdf" target="_blank">http ://www.johnconroy.com/rogin.pdf</a>


R. vs Stavert
[47] In my view the Federal Crown cannot be permitted to successfully contend that it is restricted by the final judgment of the Court of Appeal of Ontario only within that province. To hold otherwise would permit the Federal Crown to relitigate an identical issue in each provincial and territorial jurisdiction. The potential for conflicting decisions which could easily result in widely varied legal rights from province to province or territory is obvious. If this prosecution is permitted to continue, in effect it would be tantamount to a ruling that more than one third of the population of Canada is immune from prosecution while the residents of Prince Edward Island are not. [48] At page 1 of the Hitzig decision, Lederman J. makes reference to a recent announcement by the Minister of Justice of his intention to introduce legislation to decriminalize the simple possession of less than 30 grams of marijuana.