Pubdate: Sat, 08 Dec 2001
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Copyright: 2001, The Globe and Mail Company
Contact:  http://www.globeandmail.ca/
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RETURN POT TO OWNER, JUDGE ORDERS POLICE

Sechelt, B.C. -- A Provincial Court judge has ordered police to return 315 
grams of top-quality marijuana they seized from one of the first Canadians 
granted a medical exemption to smoke pot for medicinal purposes.

Judge Dan Moon ordered that the marijuana be returned to Jim Wakeford, 57, 
within 30 days. The order was made Tuesday after Mr. Wakeford applied to 
the court to have his marijuana, grow light, computer and paper  files 
returned to him.

Police seized those items, along with an additional 1,000 grams of 
marijuana and 28 marijuana plants, during a raid that took place at Mr. 
Wakeford's home on Nov. 9. Mr. Wakeford, a long-time social activist  who 
was diagnosed with AIDS 10 years ago, was one of the first two 
people  granted a medical exemption to Canada's drug laws in 1999.
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