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| Canadian Marijuana Activist Fined For Lighting Joints At Rally AP | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 02/03/2005 VICTORIA, British Columbia -- A medical marijuana activist has been fined $500 (US$410) for lighting up five joints at a pot rally at the University of Victoria in November 2000. Leon Smith, 35, was convicted Wednesday of marijuana trafficking after a Provincial Court judge rejected his argument that he had a constitutional right to smoke marijuana. "His behavior could only be described as poking his finger in the eye of the law," Judge Judith Kay said. "What Mr. Smith was doing was illegal. What Mr. Smith was doing is trafficking." Smith, a former Victoria mayoral candidate, spoke to about 40 people at the rally, touting the benefits of marijuana and proclaiming his objections to the law against it, then lit five joints and passed them into the crowd. After the rally, plainclothes officers who were in attendance moved in and arrested him.
__________________ 60% of the people of America now say we are heading toward a depression. Not a recession, a depression. We are in desperate need of profitable industries that we can tax. Um... Now can we legalize pot? ~ Bill Maher |
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