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Marijuana Possession Legal in British Columbia
by Marc Emery (11 Sept, 2003) BC follows Ontario and tosses pot laws
On September 4, 2003, following rulings in Ontario, a British Columbia Provincial Court declared there to be no marijuana possession law in effect. The entire judgement is at: http://www.provincialcourt.bc.ca/jud...3/p03_0328.htm But this is the essence: Citation: R v. Masse Date: 2003 09 04 2003 BCPC 0328 File No: 62876-1 Registry: New Westminster IN THE PROVINCIAL COURT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Criminal Division REGINA v. KURTIS LEE MASSE REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE HONOURABLE JUDGE P. CHEN [1] Kurtis Lee Masse stands charged on information 62876-1, that on or about the 21st day of February, 2003 at or near the City of New Westminster, he did unlawfully possess a controlled substance, to wit: Cannabis (marihuana), contrary to Section 4(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. This is an application pursuant to section 601 of the Criminal Code of Canada to quash the information on the ground that it does not name an offence known to law as required by section 581(1) of the Code. [2] The issue before me is simply this; is possession of cannabis (marihuana) an offence known to law in British Columbia? [snip] Disposition [67] It follows therefore, that there is no offence known to law at this time for simple possession of marihuana. The application is allowed. Regina v. Masse http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3092.html
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Go Canada!!!!!!
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A true patriot is always ready to stand up against his own government. We can't be using plants that come from the Lord for beneficial purposes. Now hurry up, or we'll be late for church. The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.-Adolf Hitler Legalizing marijuana won't grow our economy-Barack Hussein Obama 2009 |
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Marijuana Laws Struck Down in British Columbia
Westernmost province joins Ontario, PEI and Nova Scotia in ending prohibition.
Last September 4, Provincial Court Judge P Chen made a landmark ruling regarding marijuana laws in British Columbia. In his decision, Judge Chen said parts of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) are "invalid" and that "there is no offense known to law at this time for simple possession of marijuana" in the province. Judge Chen's decision was based on a series of court cases in Ontario that led a judge there to strike down marijuana possession laws in January of this year. It all goes back to medpot user Terry Parker's case before the Ontario Court of Appeal in July, 2000. In the Parker case, Judge Rosenberg ruled the CDSA's pot possession laws unconstitutional, but delayed the section's repeal for one year, giving the government time to change the law. Rather than change the law, however, the Canadian government made medpot regulations, which it published one day before the one-year deadline. In January, 2003, Ontario Provincial Court Judge Phillips decided that regulations were not enough. Regulations can be changed easily by the cabinet, said the judge, unlike laws which require a democratic vote by parliament. Thus possession laws were struck down in Ontario. Not long after, court cases in PEI on March 14 and Nova Scotia on March 31 upheld the Ontario court decision, and it seemed that prohibition would fall from sea to shining sea, but as the pro-pot dominos dropped across the prairies, the ultraconservative stronghold of Saskatchewan stood firm against enlightened change. In a pot-possession case in mid-April, Saskatchewan Provincial Court Judge Orr ruled that he simply didn't agree that regulations weren't enough to save the CDSA from the Parker ruling. Then, when the first case challenging possession laws came to court in BC, Judge's predictably followed the Saskatchewan decision. On April 16, in a case titled R vs Nicholls, Provincial Court Judge Stansfield ruled that "It remains to be determined whether [medpot regulations] do or do not 'pass constitutional muster.'" Stansfield wanted to see what would develop in Ontario before making a decision. Afterwards, R vs Nicholls was regularly cited by BC Provincial Court Judges in pot-possession cases – until this September 4 and Judge P Chen's ruling. In his ruling, Judge P Chen's ruling pointed out that since R vs Nicholls, Ontario Court of Appeal Judge Rogin had upheld the decision to invalidate pot possession law on May 16. Judge Chen was the first BC judge to notice that the circumstances of the Nicholls ruling had changed. It was time to reassess the law. Then Judge Chen made new rulings sure to shake prohibition to it's core. First he addressed the Parker case, in which judge Rosenberg ruled section 4 of the CDSA unconstitutional and gave the government a year to change the law. Previous judges have interpreted this to mean that the law could be "fixed" by giving medpot patients legal use of cannabis. However, Judge Chen showed that the law was actually struck down as unconstitutional after one year and needed to be replaced by new a law. The idea was that this new law should include access to medpot. Instead, the government wrote medpot regulations that didn't address pot-possession. So the government totally missed the mark. If he "was wrong on this", Judge Chen was prepared to defend his ruling on other grounds. He quoted from the January 9,2003 Hitzig decision, in which judge Lederman found medpot regulations unconstitutional since they did not provide a legal supply of pot to patients who couldn't grow their own. Judge Lederman gave the government 6 months to fix the medpot regulations, by providing a legal supply, which the government did on July 8, 2003, one day before the deadline. But it "came too late", ruled Judge Chen. In order for medpot regulations to fix the CDSA, they should have been fully and constitutionally enacted before the one year deadline of July 31, 2001, as set out in the Parker case. Judge Chen's decision is not only more progressive than previous BC Provincial Court decisions, it also considers a wider and more up-to-date range of case law, and should set the standard for further decisions until the matter is decided in a higher court. Regina v. Kurtis Lee Masse URL: http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3093.html Marijuana Laws Struck Down in British Columbia Source: Cannabis Culture Author: Reverend Damuzi Published: September 12, 2003 Contact: ccmag@cannabiscultur e.com * Website
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Good news!
I used to live in Ontario, but now I am in Nova Scotia for university, I hope Nova Scotia follows next! Ah well, if I wanna smoke legally I can do it when I visit home in Ontario, until then, fuck tha police. |
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Feds File Notice To Appeal Over B.C. Judge's Ruling That Pot Law Invalid
Drug Czar Claims Canada is Too Lax "They say you can't legislate morality. Well, you certainly can." John Ashcroft Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998
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its encouraging to see that some countries are run by logical people.
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