Pubdate: Tue, 27 Nov 2001
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Copyright: 2001, The Globe and Mail Company
Contact:  http://www.globeandmail.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/168

MARIJUANA CRUSADER ARRESTED BY RCMP

Gibsons, B.C. -- Jim Wakeford, one of the first Canadians granted a medical 
exemption to smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes, has been arrested. He 
said RCMP seized 28 marijuana plants and a quantity of dried marijuana. 
Also seized were 16 packages of marijuana he allegedly mailed earlier to 
friends with medical exemptions in Ontario, he said. Charges of trafficking 
are pending against him.
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