Pubdate: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 Source: Kamloops Daily News (CN BC) Copyright: 2009 Kamloops Daily News Contact: http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/679 Author: Peter Wagner Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n640/a04.html?1578 POLICE OVERZEALOUS ON MARIJUANA BUSTS I was shocked but not surprised when I read the article Leave Me the Hell Alone about a medical patient who had his medicine taken away by the Kamloops police. I can't imagine the size the lawsuit will be against the Kamloops police department after they decided to raid a medical user and take away his medicine - causing his health to spiral downward, putting Mr. Anderson into the hospital for weeks. That's not all - after all that Mr. Anderson will have to redo his entire operation, which is his only source for his medicine. This will take no less then 12 months to regain his health, to a strong enough state to start working on a new operation. >From the story it's easy to see the Kamloops police and the Crown both took shortcuts in their attempt to force a sick person into jail, because they didn't take the time to speak to a doctor to find out if what they were going to do would cause any obviously harm. No doctor would have ever approved of this raid. Can you imagine him saying, "Go ahead, taken that patient's medicine away and lock him up - - it won't harm him." I am disgusted by the lack of police work being done across Canada when it comes to marijuana busts. Between the Crown and the police it's like a yearly race to increase their numbers at all cost, even if it means railroading many innocent sick people in the process. When it comes down to it - arrest the drug dealers, not the sick people, and remember, only better intelligence and lawsuits can avoid these problems. Peter Wagner Toronto - --- MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr