Pubdate: Thu, 28 Aug 2003
Source: Kitchener-Waterloo Record (CN ON)
Copyright: 2003 Kitchener-Waterloo Record
Contact:  http://www.therecord.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/225

MARIJUANA ACTIVIST FACES INCOME TAX CHARGES

Halifax

The founder of the Nova Scotia Marijuana Party, who is now serving a 
six-year prison sentence for conspiring to possess and traffic in 
marijuana, is being hounded by the taxman.

Michael Patriquen, 49, of Middle Sackville is charged with evading a total 
of $41,370 in 1998 and 1999 taxes.

The father of two has been in prison since September 2002. He has been 
fighting to use his legally prescribed marijuana in prison for neck and 
back pain sustained in a 1999 car accident.
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