Pubdate: Wed, 04 May 2005
Source: National Post (Canada)
Copyright: 2005 Southam Inc.
Contact:  http://www.nationalpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/286
Author: Allison Hanes, CanWest News Service
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Boris+St+Maurice (Marc-Boris St-Maurice)

POT ADVOCATE FIGHTS CHARGES

MONTREAL - A man who was arrested for marijuana possession last year after 
police took out memberships in the pro-marijuana political party he founded 
and infiltrated its club-house was in court yesterday to fight the charge 
against him.

Marc-Boris St-Maurice -- who recently left the Marijuana Party of Canada 
and the provincial Bloc Pot to pursue pro-pot policies as a Liberal -- said 
police violated his constitutional rights. And he wants the evidence police 
gathered when they came undercover to Cafe Marijane tossed out.

He said he hopes the charge against him -- possession of three grams of pot 
- -- will ultimately be dropped. "It was the most expensive pot I ever had," 
he said yesterday.

Crown prosecutor Mario Longpre argued the police investigation tactics were 
legal and in line with numerous court decisions allowing evidence gathered 
during sting operations or covert efforts to extract confessions.

Judge Andre Perreault will make a decision on July 14.
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