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Ontario Man Successfully Shows 746 Grams Of Marijuana Were For Personal Use
Norml.org | 12/7/2005

GUELPH, Ont.-- A British Columbia man found with 746 grams of marijuana beat drug trafficking charges today after convincing an Ontario judge he had intended to smoke all of it by himself.

Carlos Lamprea, a home renovator, pleaded guilty to possessing the drug, but was found not guilty of possessing the marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.

Lamprea, 56, claimed the drugs were intended for his personal use.

"He has a record of a terrible abuse of this drug," his lawyer Kenneth Smith said. "It's conduct that's shameful."

Lamprea has six prior convictions for possessing marijuana.

Justice J.L. Menzies said he believed medical evidence from Lamprea's doctor that the man was a drug abuser with a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Provincial police officer Andrew Houston pulled Lamprea over for allegedly speeding on Feb. 29, 2004, court heard.

While obtaining his licence and registration, Houston noticed Lamprea was nervous and constantly tapping his fingers on the steering wheel.

When he looked inside the vehicle, the officer spotted a plastic Tupperware container on the rear passenger-side floor.

Houston questioned Lamprea, who admitted he had just finished a joint.

The officer then found bags containing 746 grams of marijuana inside the vehicle.

A key part of Smith's defence was that police didn't find debt lists, scales or other devices to measure marijuana -- meaning he didn't intend to sell the drugs.

Lamprea testified that he smoked about seven to 10 grams of marijuana per day.

"If ( the officer ) had seen the joints inside my pocket, he would have realized these are not toothpick-sized joints," he said.

Lamprea was fined $5,000 on the possession of marijuana charge.

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Cassius

Okay, I can understand smoking that much, especially if you had a medical reason to do so (I can certainly see smoking that much if you had muscular dystrophy or something equally debilitating). But why, oh why, did he need to carry it in his car?

I dunno, maybe he just purchased it I guess and hadn't gotten it home yet.

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PotShot

Sounds like the guy is a little fruit-loopy to me. If you going to carry around 3/4 a kilogram of pot, please throw a towel or blanket or something over it. And dont speed, thats a bad idea too.

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Cassius

Yeah, speeding with weed in the car, especially that much of it (good God), is just being stupid. MMJ registration card or no, it's just asking for trouble.

420BLAZE

OK......How smart is this person? Carrying that much ganja+speeding+smoking a joint=DUMBA$$. Why not wait to get home and smoke a joint. He probably would of just got a ticket if he was not high when he was pulled over. But I guess he needed his medicine(sp).

 

SkyTripper

HAHAHA....was this Chong?
People like him ARE true potheads! He ain't gonna WAIT to get home to fire up. Hell...he's got 6 priors for possession and doesn't give a damn. Probably super stoned in front of the judge and had a big, fat doobie in his shirt pocket in court.....just dying to get the Hell out of there and blaze up in front of the courthouse walking out to his car....which probably had another lb. or so maybe in .....the trunk this time?

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kapowie

It sound like this dude was just to high at the time I agree this man seems to be a chronic user so why not light up before home every one knows they have done it one time or another but to be speeding and not hiding his stach with the convictions that he has in the past WOW, just sounds like someone was to high!!

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ChronicSmoke7

Hahaha, with that much weed, i bet he sell like two oz....to some close friends and smokes the rest.....sounds like he re-ups ever week

At least that is what i would do w/ 750 grams of pot, but than again, no way in hell would i be speeding w/ that much dope in plain view.

Cassius

Assuming an average joint is about 0.75 grams, that's about 1000 joints worth. If he smokes 1 joint an hour every hour that he's awake, and if he's awake 16 hours a day, it would take him two months to go through that amount. I dunno about the rest of you, but my weed starts tasting pretty stale long before 2 months has passed. I guess you could get better duration if you vacuum sealed it in a mason jar, or froze it or something -- but still, I find it hard to believe that all this was for personal use. Especially since he was transporting it!

But, more power to him if he was able to convince the judge it was for personal use. =)

yuri420

Judge mustve been one of his loyal customers!

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