>Ottawa Citizen Front Page
>Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997
>by Jeremy Mercer

OTTAWA'S UNDERGROUND NETWORK FOR MEDICINAL MARIJUANA

Dr. Don Kilby recommends that Jean Charles Pariseau smoke
marijuana to relieve some of his AIDS symptoms. Aubert
Martins makes sure Mr. Pariseau can get his hands on the
illegal drug. Jeremy Mercer reports.

When Jean Charles Pariseau fell sick with the AIDS virus
last fall, Aubert Martins felt compelled to help his dying
friend. The roughly 30 pills Mr. Pariseau takes each day to
fight the HIV made him nauseous and destroyed his appetite.
By last October, Mr. Pariseau, who at 5 foot 2 inches once
weighed 115 pounds, had dropped to a gaunt 82 pounds.
Doctors gave the Hull man three months to live.

Near the end of October 1996, Mr. Martins visited Mr.
Pariseau at the hospital. The old friends had often shared
marijuana cigarettes together, and they lit one up together
for old times' sake the first joint for Mr. Pariseau since
he had become severely ill. To his surprise, after smoking,
he ate a full meal and kept it all down. "The doctors told
me 'You have to eat, you have to eat," says Mr. Pariseau,
30. "I was sick so I couldn't. But when you smoke, you get
the munchies and you eat. So I started to smoke all the
time." Thus began Mr. Pariseau's extensive, illegal and
doctor-approved marijuana diet.

Not only had Mr. Pariseau found a marijuana grower to
provide him with the drug to alleviate his AIDS symptoms,
but he found a doctor, Don Kilby, who recommended he
continue using. "In this case, my recommendation was to
smoke a few joints because it stimulates his appetite and
keeps his weight up," Dr. Kilby says. Smoking four or five
joints a day, Mr. Pariseau's weight slowly began to climb
and within months he was up to 100 pounds.

Mr. Martins, an Ottawa marijuana grower, saw an opportunity
to help. Mr. Pariseau could neither afford to pay street
prices for marijuana nor could he trust the quality of the
drug off the street. So Mr. Martins, 40, decided he would
take responsibility for providing Mr. Pariseau with
marijuana. For the first few months, he would drop off 20 or
30 grams a week to his friend. Later, he set Mr. Pariseau up
with 50 marijuana plants and two lamps in one of the
apartment's closets. "He was sick and he needed the
marijuana," Mr. Martins says. "How could I not do
something?" Three weeks ago, all that came to an end.

On Oct. 15, while Mr. Pariseau sat on the couch swallowing
the last of his afternoon pills and his wife, Sylvie,
prepared a dinner of pork chops, mashed potatoes and gravy,
there was a knock on their door. According to Mr. Pariseau,
10 police officers, acting on a tip, swarmed in and seized
his modest marijuana growing setup. Both he and his wife
were charged with drug offences and will appear in Hull
court Nov. 20. Mr. Martins was outraged.

"Why Charles? Who was he hurting? He needs his marijuana to
live, even the doctors will tell you that. But still they
take away his crop and his equipment. It's not right." Mr.
Martins felt compelled to act again. For the past year, Mr.
Martins has been involved in a network of doctors, marijuana
growers, and cancer and AIDS victims whose goal is to
provide the illegal drug to patients in need. Despite the
fact that possession of marijuana is punishable by as much
as seven years in prison, and trafficking can mean a life
sentence, Mr. Pariseau's arrest has made Mr. Martins angry
enough to take his mission public. "What I am doing is not
wrong," Mr. Martins says. "These people need their smoke.
They need to make sure they get good quality and shouldn't
have to go to the street to get it. What I want to do is be
able grow marijuana and set up as many people who need it
with their own growing operations."

Mr. Martins is not alone. Informal networks have been formed
in most major Canadian cities to provide marijuana to
medical patients. Advocates of medical use of marijuana
contend that it promotes appetite and suppresses nausea
making it a potential lifesaver for patients undergoing
chemotherapy for cancer or battling the wasting syndrome
caused by the human immunodeficiency virus. And there is no
doubt there is support for the legalization of marijuana
among the public. In a poll of 1,515 Canadians conducted by
Angus Reid in the last week of October an incredible 83 per
cent of those asked supported the legalization of marijuana
for medicinal purposes. Fifty one per cent supported the
total legalization of the drug.

Mr. Pariseau believes the drug should be legalized for his
use. "If a doctor says it helps, why shouldn't I be able to
have it?" Mr. Pariseau's doctor has recommended he continue
to use marijuana. Dr. Don Kilby, who works at the University
of Ottawa health clinic, was not surprised that Mr. Pariseau
had been wasting away from his sickness. "As it happens with
a lot of patients with advanced cancers or advanced AIDS,
you get to a point where one of the things that kill them is
the malnutrition and the wasting stage at the end of their
disease," Dr. Kilby says. "You do whatever you can to
stimulate their appetite." Usually Dr. Kilby prescribes the
drug Megace as an appetite stimulant. But Megace is not
available for AIDS patients under the Quebec health care
plan and costs between $2,000 and $3,000 a month for the
dose an AIDS patient needs.

Mr. Pariseau and his wife, Sylvie, could not afford that.
After he got sick, Mr. Pariseau had to leave his job as a
carpet layer and now the couple depends on social
assistance. When Mr. Pariseau told Dr. Kilby he was using
marijuana to keep his food down, Dr. Kilby approved.
"Without the marijuana he didn't have the appetite and
without the appetite he wasn't eating. Without the eating he
wasn't able to take the 20some pills a day that I was trying
to give him. So this way, with the appetite improved, the
weight gaining and the better digestion and the nausea
reduced, he was able to take his medication and the
treatment was working," Dr. Kilby says.

And both Dr. Kilby and Mr. Pariseau are thrilled with the
results, considering that a little more than a year ago,
doctors told Mr. Pariseau he had three months to live. "His
prognosis for living, although he is going to be permanently
handicapped because of how sick he got, right now it looks
pretty good if we can keep him on his medications and keep
his weight up," Dr. Kilby says. "I'm not going to say he's
going to live until he's sixty, but at least instead of
looking at a prognosis of three months we're looking more at
a prognosis of three years."

It is cases like Mr. Pariseau's that strengthen Dr. Kilby's
support for the legalization of marijuana for medicinal
purposes. "Even though I can't prescribe and don't grow it
and don't give it out, I don't have any qualms about telling
people that if you're using it medicinally I cannot say
you're doing a bad thing," he says. "I think that people
that fit the criteria of wasting and malnutrition secondary
to disease, or induced by the treatments or chemotherapies
used to treat the disease, I can't see why we wouldn't allow
them to use marijuana if it was going to extend their
lives."

There have been several court cases in Canada over exactly
what Dr. Kilby recommends the legalization of marijuana for
medicinal purposes. In the most recent case, Lynn Harichy,
who has multiple sclerosis, challenged the law by trying to
smoke a joint on the steps of the London police station in
October. She was arrested and charged with possession of a
narcotic. Ms. Harichy, 36, is being defended by Alan Young,
an Osgoode Hall law professor who recently lost a
high profile constitutional challenge to the marijuana law.
He was defending London hemp shop owner Chris Clay, who was
charged with trafficking and possession of marijuana. Mr.
Clay was convicted and fined $750.

JCT: Har har har. Another Young loser I didn't know about.

"There are groups of people providing marijuana for
medicinal purposes from the west coast to the east coast,"
says Mr. Young, whose goal is to have the marijuana law
struck down.

JCT: And after Terry Parker got it struck down, he Hitzig
case got it struck up! Oops. With a goal of stricking it
down to striking it up by the backward professor.

"It's about time we took this underground activity and
legitimized it and created some quality control.

JCT: He was pushing for government control while I wanted it
available at the farmers' markets.

We have a situation where people with debilitating illnesses
venture into the black market and risk the jeopardy of
criminal sanctions." Mr. Young himself was part of a group
that tried to start a marijuana buyers club for cancer and
AIDS patients in Toronto, but the effort failed, partly out
of fear of police repercussions.

JCT: Another Young loser due to fear. Har har har. I've
never lost anything due to fear. Har har har har.

Mr. Young says he believes Ms. Harichy will win her case,
but is not confident such a decision will lead to changes in
the law.

JCT: Since he never sought to invalidate the law in any of
his motions, always seeking something personal that didn't
win it for everyone, is it any wonder he admits up front
that a win by the Cannabis Court Clutz won't change
anything.

"I tell people that these medical necessity case are
important, but let's not delude ourselves into thinking it
will change the law. Any decision will be appealed," Mr.
Young says. "What we must do is push the government to make
changes to the law."

JCT: And yet, Parker got the courts to repeal the
prohibition. Then Young got the Hitzig court to unrepeal it.

When told about Mr. Pariseau's arrest, Mr. Young was
surprised. "The government is aware these people are doing
it and they rarely intervene because the optics of it would
be very bad. It would be the big, bad government depriving
seriously ill people of something that would make their
lives more bearable."

The Cannabis Compassion Club in Vancouver is a case in
point, providing a safe spot for cancer and AIDS patients to
buy and smoke marijuana. Vancouver police have said they are
not concerned about the club's activities unless it starts
selling to minors or recreational users.

Mr. Martins hopes authorities here in the Ottawa area turn a
similar blind eye to his own missions of mercy. On a sunny
day last week, Mr. Martins packed 100 grams of marijuana
into the glove compartment of a friend's car and made his
rounds in Hull. His first stop was the Pariseau's apartment
on Mont Bleu Boulevard. Mr. Martins dropped off a bag of
marijuana and rolled a few joints as the Pariseau's dog
Coquette ran circles around the table.

Mr. Martins has been growing marijuana for two decades and
his experience is evident in the quality of the marijuana.
He says he had offers from various organized crime groups
who want him to oversee their growing operations. And
needless to say, he could make a fortune by selling his
product on the street. But Mr. Martins says he is not the
marijuana business for the money. He lives a relatively
humble existence, with no car and only rented rooms in the
basement of an Ottawa house. "I do it because I love to
grow, simple as that."

Mr. Martins has ended up on the wrong side of the law,
though. This spring, police seized more than 500 marijuana
plants and growing equipment from his basement. He ended up
pleading guilty to drug charges and received a 90 day jail
sentence, which he serves on weekends. The spring bust did
change the way Mr. Martins worked. Instead of growing the
marijuana himself, he set up smaller growing operations
around the city. The deal he offers is simple: he'll set
someone up with the plants and equipment and when it comes
time to harvest the marijuana, half of the crop goes to sick
people he serves and the host keeps the other half.

Using these satellite crops, he sells to a few friends to
provide the basics and distributes to a loose circle of
people with AIDS, cancer, and other serious illnesses. And
he also sells to some doctors in Quebec who provide the
marijuana for their patients. Mr. Martins will not disclose
the names of the doctors to whom he sells because they fear
prosecution. He will not say how many people he provides to,
but the network continues to grow through word of mouth.
"Anyone who is in a situation like that, give me a call and
I'll set them up," says Mr. Martins. "I'll help them."

His dream is that marijuana be legalized for medicinal
purposes, so he can set up a business to provide the drug
and installing marijuana growing units in the homes of those
in need. "It's clean that way," says Mr. Martins. "If you
buy marijuana on the street, you don't know what's in it,
you don't know what you're getting."

As the joint made its way around the Pariseau table, Mr.
Pariseau talked about his illness. He believes he contracted
the virus in 1984, when as a teenager, he had a six month
addiction to cocaine, which he injected with friends. He
didn't even realize he was infected until he collapsed last
August with a mysterious illness. His days now are spent
either in his apartment or at the hospital. His wife Sylvie
is constantly by his side.

"I accept the sickness but I don't accept the laws," says
Mrs. Pariseau. "He's dying and the marijuana helps, the
doctors even say so. But they won't let him have it. It's
just a plant." In one small miracle, despite eight years of
physical intimacy when Mr. Pariseau didn't realize he
carried the virus, his wife was not infected.

After dropping off marijuana to Mr. Pariseau, Mr. Martins
travelled a bit further to drop off another bag to a second
young man with AIDS who did not want his name in the paper.
His last stop was the home of Gerard Konning in a quiet
suburb of Hull. Mr. Konning suffers from Crohn's disease and
had a brain tumor removed last year. "It keeps me from
jumping off the bridge, really," Mr. Konning said as he
served Mr. Martins coffee.

JCT: Incredible. I gambled with Gerald Koening and he was
one of the witnesses in an earlier trial.

This day Mr. Martins is giving Mr. Konning about 30 grams of
marijuana for $100, enough to make about 100 joints. The
money, less than $4 a gram, goes to cover Mr. Martins'
expenses. On the street, a gram of marijuana costs between
$10 and $15. The combination of stress and pain from his
various illnesses keeps Mr. Konning from sleeping at night.
He was prescribed more than a dozen types of sleeping pills
and tranquilizers, everything from Valium to Prozac, but
nothing worked. He couldn't sleep, his head spun and his
life was miserable. Last fall, Mr. Konning was in the same
hospital ward as Mr. Pariseau. The two got to talking and
Mr. Pariseau told Mr. Konning how pleased he was with the
marijuana. "I was totally against it before," Mr. Konning
says. "I used to be 500 per cent against anything to do with
drugs. But when you smoke and you head stops spinning and
you can sleep at night, you change. The first 49 years of my
life, I never tried a drug. Now, I don't know where I'd be
without it." After leaving Mr. Konning's home, Mr. Martin
sprayed deodorizer in his car to mask the smell of
marijuana. He shrugs. "Is what I do so bad?"
---

>Canada: Police unfazed by medicinal marijuana so far
>Ottawa Citizen
>Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997
>by Jeremy Mercer

POLICE UNFAZED BY MEDICINAL MARIJUANA SO FAR

Area police forces are taking no immediate action against
members of a medicinal marijuana network that distribute the
drug to seriously ill patients in the Ottawa area. In
Sunday's Citizen, one marijuana grower and two patients one
with AIDS, the other with Crohn's disease gave details of
how they distributed and smoked marijuana. The article also
included a local doctor, Don Kilby, who approves of
marijuana for medicinal purposes. The RCMP is making no
comment on whether it will investigate the network's
activities. "We're going to analyse the article and the
information in it," said Insp. Dwaine Tranquilla. "We'll
make a decision later in the week."

The chief of Ottawa Carleton Police would also not say
whether his force will look into the network. "I won't
comment on that," said Chief Brian Ford. "There's a lot of
scientific evidence that say marijuana therapy is effective
for cancer patients. I can see the validity of that, but
obviously the law doesn't allow for it at this time." Chief
Ford has been a longtime advocate for the decriminalization
of marijuana but said his personal views do not reflect
police decisions.

According to Richard Addelman, one of Ottawa's most
experienced criminal lawyer, it is unlikely members of the
network could be charged based solely on the Citizen
article. "They couldn't charge them with trafficking because
they don't have the substance they claims to be trafficking
in," says Mr. Addelman. "Based on a newspaper report, it's
not enough."

The men who came forward with their stories of how they need
and distribute marijuana remain unfazed by the potential for
police retribution. Jean Charles Pariseau, a 30 year-old
Hull man with AIDS, has been supplied with free marijuana
for almost a year through the network.

In October, the RCMP charged Mr. Pariseau for marijuana
possession. "If they come again, I'll smoke a joint right in
front of them. I need it for my life," says Mr. Pariseau.

Aubert Martins, the Ottawa marijuana grower who oversees the
distribution of marijuana to more than a dozen AIDS and
cancer patients, is equally confident. "I have no family
here, I don't own very much. What can they do?" says Mr.
Martin. "I am doing what is right, I'm helping many people.
Anyway, I'd much rather they come after me than someone like
Jean Charles who has AIDS or someone else who is sick."
---

>Police target medical marijuana
>Ottawa Citizen
>Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997
>by Jeremy Mercer

RCMP intends to charge patients and grower who provides free
drug

The RCMP has launched an investigation into Ottawa's
underground medicinal marijuana network with hopes of laying
drug charges against a man who provides free marijuana to
AIDS and cancer patients. "If there are reasonable and
probable grounds to believe an offence is being committed,
as in any case, we would pursue charges," said Cpl. Louis
Chiasson of the RCMP's drug squad, who is leading the
investigation. "We have to do this. "Certainly, we have
received directions to do so, so we are following up on it."
Cpl. Chiasson says there is a "distinct possibility" the
investigation will result in charges against either the man
who distributes marijuana to the sick or the patients who
use the drug to fight their illness.

Earlier this month, the Citizen reported on a network of
marijuana growers, seriously ill patients and doctors who
advocate marijuana use for medicinal purposes and made sure
those who were sick received the drug. The article named one
marijuana grower, Aubert Martins, and two patients, Jean
Charles Pariseau, who is suffering from AIDS, and Gerard
Konning, who suffers from Crohn's disease, who are part of
the medicinal marijuana network. The article also mentioned
a local doctor, Don Kilby, who approves of marijuana for
medicinal purposes and stated that Mr. Pariseau's marijuana
use has helped him gain 30 pounds and increased his life
expectancy from three months to three years. That article
prompted the RCMP investigation into Mr. Martins.

Yesterday morning, RCMP officers questioned Mr. Pariseau,
who smokes three or four joints a day to stimulate his
appetite and fight the nausea caused by the 30 pills he
takes each day to combat his HIV. The RCMP also summoned a
Citizen reporter to their offices on McArthur Avenue for
questioning. The reporter declined to make a statement to
police. "If somebody comes and gives me information that
someone has a plantation or has growing activities, then we
have to look into it," explained Cpl. Chiasson. "We are
certainly interested in the activities that are alleged in
the article. It is certainly a distinct possibility we will
find there are reasonable grounds to pursue charges."

There is a precedent of police turning a blind eye to this
type of activity. In Vancouver, police refuse to raid a
marijuana club that caters to cancer and AIDS patients as
long as they don't see children or teenagers using the
facility. However, the RCMP here say they can't do that.
"It's still against the law and we're here to enforce that,"
said Cpl. Chiasson.

The Ottawa-Carleton police are not commenting on the case
but say they are not conducting their own investigation into
the underground medicinal marijuana network. Mr. Martins was
unfazed by news of the investigation. "You can't blame them
for doing their job, but if they come asking questions, I
don't talk to police. I'll tell them to talk to my lawyers.
If they have something to charge me with, charge," says Mr.
Martins. "Even if they put me in jail, the wheel is moving.
The people who need the marijuana will get it."

Mr. Martins, 40, has been the subject of prior police
investigations. This spring, he was charged with drugrelated
offences after the RCMP found several hundred marijuana
plants in his basement. Mr. Martins pleaded guilty to those
charges and is currently serving a 60day jail sentence by
working at the Shepherds of Good Hope on weekends. After the
bust, Mr. Martins set up smaller marijuanagrowing stations
across the region to make sure he could still provide the
drug to those in need. Meanwhile, the Ottawa case has
attracted the attention of one of the world's foremost
advocates of legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Dr. Lester Grinspoon, an associate professor of psychiatry
at the Harvard Medical School who coauthored the
groundbreaking book Marijuana, the Forbidden Medicine, is
hoping to use the stories of Mr. Pariseau and Mr. Martins
for another book he is planning on the fight to legalize
marijuana. "I can present all the medical evidence in the
world, but we need people's stories to bring the issue
alive," says Dr. Grinspoon. "What this Mr. Martins is doing
is commendable and important. I salute him." Dr. Grinspoon
became convinced of marijuana's medical benefits after his
son was struck with leukemia. "He insisted on using it, even
though I told him not to," says Dr. Grinspoon. "Then I saw
what was happening. Instead of vomiting for eight hours
after his chemotherapy, he'd be asking us to pick him up a
submarine sandwich. I couldn't believe the difference."
---

>From: MedPotMarc
>CC Magazine
>http://medpot.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=45989

Jean-Charles Pariseau (sitting in wheelchair) with friend
Sylvie at federal court. The arm with the briefcase is me.

Dear Friends;
Jean-Charles would have been 40 years old next August 22nd.

He was also John C. Turmel's first medical marijuana
Exemptee federal court case in 2000.

I also fought in courts with Jean-Charles, and I can
reassure everyone that "Hellth" Canada gave Jean-Charles and
many of us a very hard time - and they still are! Jean-
Charles is now free, without pain or "Hellth" Canada in his
way. May his soul rest in peace!

The following is Jean-Charles Pariseau's first Affidavit for
an APPLICATION UNDER Section 18(1) of the Federal Court Act.

Court File No. 00-T-36
FEDERAL COURT - TRIAL DIVISION

BETWEEN
The Applicant:
Jean Charles Pariseau

AND
The Respondent:
Attorney General of Canada

APPLICATION UNDER Section 18(1) of the Federal Court Act
AFFIDAVIT OF JEAN CHARLES PARISEAU

I, Jean Charles Pariseau, disabled, residing at the city of
Vanier in the Regional Municipality of Ottawa Carleton swear
that:

1. Ex. A. is my Letter of Exemption dated June 09 1999
pursuant to section 56 of the law regulating certain drug
and other substances (LRCDAS). I was the first person in
Canada to qualify for an exemption to cultivate, possess
medicinal cannabis hemp marijuana for medicinal purposes. I
suffer HIV, Toxoplasmose, Epilepsy, Anemia of the blood for
which I take 48 pills every day in 6 sessions. My doctor has
recommended 2 to 3 grams per day though have found I need to
smoke 4 or more than grams of marijuana per day to help me
ingest my 21 grams of pills. The more marijuana I smoke, the
more I can eat and the longer I can keep my weight up and
stay alive. Having marijuana to help in my treatment is the
best help in helping me cope with my illnesses.

2. According to the scope of exemption in my original letter
dated June 9 1999:

"Scope of Exemption:

2) you may only produce/cultivate or possess the quantity of
the designated substance necessary to satisfy your current
personal medical needs. The exemption does not permit you to
import, export or traffic in the designated substance in the
sense of the LRCDAS."

3. Exhibit B is my Letter of Exemption dated June 09 2000
with the following amendments and information:

"Attached is your new Letter of Exemption. Make sure to note
the following changes concerning your new exemption letter
which has the effect of harmonizing its content with that of
other letters of exemption granted over the past year to
other applicants:

A) A maximum quantity of marijuana has been specified for
possession and cultivation in the section titled "Scope of
the Exemption."

B] The exemptions are now granted for six months.

Scope of the Exemption:

2) At the place where you produce/cultivate marijuana, you
are authorized the produce/cultivate and have in your
possession a quantity not to exceed a total of 3 mature
plants of marijuana, 4 immature plants and 30 grams of
usable marijuana per plant. At locations other than where
you produce/cultivate, you are authorized to have in your
possession a quantity not exceeding 30 grams of usable
marijuana.

Suspension and Revocation.

This exemption may be suspended and, finally, revoked, if a
more appropriate new therapy or other method of legal access
becomes available like access to clinical tests where we
would reasonably expect you to participate."

4. I have failed as a farmer in that my 3 plants which
Health Canada officials expect to produce 90 grams only
produced 25 grams, less than I need for one week, let alone
3 months. The new amendments have limited my access to
sufficient marijuana to cope with my illnesses. A
hydroponics shop owner has offered to apply for an exemption
to legally grow it for me.

5. Ideally, none of these problems would occur if my
exemption also included the exemption against importation
from nations where marijuana is legal. If qualified sick
people like myself are permitted to produce it, possess it
and consume it, importing it from a jurisdiction where it is
legal to cultivate is a necessary amendment to obtain my
medicine.

6. I'm almost out of marijuana, virtually broke with debts I
can't pay. My cablevision has just been cut off.

My Hydro bill is almost $300 to grow 3 plants with lighting
that could have grown 85.

This and the stress of coping with these government
officials is killing me.

7. This Affidavit is made in support of an application
pursuant to Section 18 for judicial review to:

1) strike the amendment limiting the dosage the Applicant
may use in treating these serious illnesses on the grounds
that the medical opinion of the Health Canada officials is
unqualified, unconscionable and in error;

2) strike down the amendment that halves the period of the
exemption on the grounds that doubling the Applicant's and
his doctor's paperwork serves no valid purpose;

3) strike the amendment threatening revocation of the
Applicant's Exemption if he does not act as a guinea pig in
experimental trials on the grounds that this is a matter
best left to the medical opinion of his doctor.

4) amend the original exemption to permit the Applicant to
authorize an incorporated hydroponics shop to produce his
medicinal supply on the grounds that all conditions already
met by the Applicant can be met by a qualified hydroponic
grower;

5) strike the prohibition against importing the Applicant's
legal supply of marijuana from a legal source of marijuana
such as Holland.

Jean Charles Pariseau
Sworn before me at the city
of Ottawa on Fri Sept 15 2000.
---

>MedPotMarc

Quote: This and the stress of coping with these government
officials is killing me.

Dear Friends!
The question is: "Should sick and dying people be forced to
go through this government hell and stress - for a
beneficial medicinal plant that never killed anyone?"
Sooner or later, our government will have to face their
mischiefs and suffer the consequences.
We suffer enough as it is, and we need our government's help
and compassion - not more stress and pain.
Jean-Charles was right in his affidavit - they are killing
us faster! Marc

JCT: Exactly 7 days after finishing up at the U.N.
Millennium Assembly in New York on the UNILETS resolution
for interest-free time-based bank accounts for everyone, I
filed the first application for judicial review against
Health Canada for what they did to Jean Charles Pariseau.
You can read the Pariseau v. Health Canada medpot
court battles in my earliest posts at
http://yahoogroups.com/group/medpot/messages/1 for
3 Pariseau Affidavit for Judicial Review of Exemption Amendments
4 Federal Court Pro-Marijuana Challenge
6 Federal Court grants Judicial Review of Marijuana Rules
13 Health Canada Marijuana Affidavit
14 Health Canada Marijuana Affidavit Reply
17 Federal Court Marijuana Memorandum
21 Health Canada Marijuana Memorandum
23 Pariseau can grow more marijuana

R.I.P. Jean-Charles Pariseau


--
Abolitionist Slave Leader John C."The Banking Systems Engineer" Turmel
for UNILETS interest-free time-based currency in U.N. resolution C6
to Governments in the http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration.htm
http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel 519-753-0645 USENET: can.politics