Kitchener Organization Dispenses Marijuana To Chronic Pain Sufferers After starting out with little more than high hopes last April, Jeannette Tossounian of Kitchener now has a small office for her club, Marijuana Used for Medicine, and about 50 registered members to whom she sells the illegal drug. The 23-year-old crusader operates one of only four such clubs in Canada; the others are in Vancouver, Toronto and London. In the process, she risks criminal prosecution. Staff Sgt. Kevin Chalk said in an interview Waterloo regional police are aware of the club and are obliged to charge anybody selling marijuana, even for medical purposes. However, Chalk said, "I can't tell you we're hunting down these people... We have to prioritize what we do and that would be at the low end of the scale." [continues 1523 words]
Philip Jalsevac's Nov. 28 article, Illegal Medicine, was inspiring. Kitchener residents have every reason to be proud of the Record and of Jeannette Tossounian, their own native Florence Nightingale. She has the kind of concern for others which moved those who risked all during the war years to help Jews escape the death camps. Tossounian is an example of selfless heroinism who will send an enduring and inspiring message to young people everywhere for her courage, her survival, her message, her life. To her -- and, symbolically, through her to Lynn Harichy and the others of that precious band, those few unacknowledged, oft misunderstood, frequently maligned dedicated ones -- I return the blessing so dearly bought, so freely bestowed. Pat Dolan Vancouver - --- Checked-by: Richard Lake [end]
A Kitchener father who said he grew marijuana at home so his son wouldn't have to buy it on the street probably escaped a jail sentence Tuesday because he agreed to live with his mother for six months. Judge Donald MacMillan said the fact that the man wouldn't be living with his stepson made imposing the six-month conditional sentence much more acceptable. Otherwise, the judge said he would have hesitated to agree to a conditional sentence, given the nature of the case. He called the father's motivation for growing 20 marijuana plants at home "appalling." [continues 280 words]
OTTAWA -- Self-styled "Reverend" Michael Baldasaro of the pot-worshipping Church of the Universe says he's still a candidate for the federal Conservative party leadership, no matter what the Tories say. And he held a press conference on Parliament Hill Tuesday to ask "All the little people" to vote for him and his platform of giving the boot to lawyers and big business and legalizing marijuana. Baldasaro who failed to file the $30,000 deposit and 250 name petition required for candidates last July, said he's still in the race because he's challenging the leadership rules before the Federal Court. [continues 210 words]
