Pubdate: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB) Copyright: 2009 The Calgary Sun Contact: http://www.calgarysun.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67 MEDICINAL FIGHT OVER POT ENDS A longtime advocate for the use of medical marijuana has agreed to give up a fight that has seen him battle the justice system to the Supreme Court. Grant Krieger, who has for years vocally defended his right to provide marijuana to the sick, signed a legal document yesterday pledging to stop growing or distributing it. "I've hit the end of all my ropes and I'm just tired of it now," he said in Calgary. Krieger uses marijuana to treat symptoms of progressive multiple sclerosis. At one time, he also supplied more than 400 sick people with the drug through a compassion club. As a result of Krieger's promise, Alberta's Court of Appeal has swapped a four-month jail sentence for 18 months of probation in a 2007 trafficking conviction. Krieger was at first given jail time because he "stated he did not think he had done anything wrong and had no intention of closing his club (and) and confirmed that he would not desist from his campaign to distribute marijuana," the appeal decision reads. That stand was the continuation of a campaign that saw him defiant in court case after court case from his first trafficking conviction more than a decade ago. He took one case to the Supreme Court, where he was granted a new trial after the court ruled the trial judge erred by directing the jury to find him guilty. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin