Pubdate: Tue, 27 Nov 2001
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2001, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.fyitoronto.com/torsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmjcn.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal - Canada)

MEDICAL POT MAN BUSTED

GIBSONS, B.C. -- One of the first Canadians granted a medical 
exemption to smoke pot for medicinal purposes has been busted by 
police.

Jim Wakeford, 57, said RCMP seized 28 marijuana plants, and a 
quantity of dried pot along with his home computer and office files. 
Charges of trafficking are now pending against him.

Wakeford, a longtime social activist who was diagnosed with AIDS 10 
years ago, was one of the first two people granted an exemption to 
Canada's drug laws in Under current regulations, medicinal users may 
only possess seven plants and 30 grams of pot.
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