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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.

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Dazed.Confused

What he did was illegal, he deserved what he got. it isn't too bad, $500 Why would he waste those joints anyways? (haha,jks)

lijnbaansgracht

Is it against the law to share a joint with friends. Just a group of people socializing and smoking, not selling, marijuana. I'm not sure about Canadian law but that doesn't sound like trafficing.

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Buzzby

Strangely enough, by Canadian law that is trafficking! This is not the first case that's come to our attention where a Canadian was busted for trafficking for passing a joint. Marc Emery, the most famous Canadian activist, did 90 days (I think) for the same thing.

Zilos

Yup, was a 90 days sentence, but he only had to do serve 60 days of it I think.

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