Lit_Match

Marijuana advocates mount campaign
05-13-08|Calgary Herald

Laws - Advocates of medicinal and recreational use of marijuana are promoting a Toronto university professor's legal self-defence kit to help people avoid criminal convictions for a law they believe is unconstitutional.

Keith and Debbie Fagin took that message to the steps of the Calgary Courts Centre on Monday, handing out information on how to obtain and use the kits provided by Doug Hutchinson, a philosophy professor at the University of Toronto's Trinity College.

"As long as it's 30 grams or less, as long as it's not broken up for sale," said Keith Fagin, a member of Calgary 420, a group advocating personal and medicinal use of the illicit drug.

"If it's for sale, that's a completely different issue. This is just for simple possession for personal use."

Calgary police officers are working with national police services to have a unified and co-ordinated response to deal with the discrepancies in the medicinal marijuana legislation, but police still have to enforce the laws, said Sgt. Ryan Ayliffe of the city drug unit.

"We, as police officers, don't have the luxury of picking and choosing which laws we enforce," Ayliffe said.

"We go with what the laws are in the books, and we enforce them to the best of our ability."

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