cannabisnews.com: Medicinal Pot Crusader Busted Medicinal Pot Crusader Busted Posted by CN Staff on January 09, 2004 at 07:31:16 PT By Kevin Engstrom, Sun Media Source: Edmonton Sun Winnipeg -- A Calgary-based medicinal pot crusader faces possession charges after being busted by Headingley Mounties on Tuesday. Grant Krieger, 49, said he was pulled over Tuesday night by RCMP, who seized roughly $7,500 worth of marijuana and cash from his vehicle. Krieger, an MS sufferer who has smoked marijuana for medicinal purposes since 1994, said the pot was for himself and a Selkirk resident stricken with cancer. Both are legally allowed to grow weed and smoke it for medicinal purposes, Krieger said yesterday. Krieger is head of the Krieger Foundation, a group devoted to supplying the narcotic to those who need it for medical use. Krieger said all but a few grams of pot were seized by Mounties. "These officers, in their infinite wisdom, decided I needed no more than four or five grams and left it in my car," said Krieger, who smokes a half-ounce of weed daily. RCMP spokesman Sgt. Steve Saunders would not confirm Krieger's arrest. He did say, though, that officers found an undisclosed quantity of marijuana and cash after pulling a vehicle over on the Trans-Canada Highway near Headingley early Tuesday evening. Krieger was convicted by a Calgary judge just last month of trafficking pot after testifying he distributed home-grown marijuana in 1999 to members of his Compassion Club. Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB) Author: Kevin Engstrom, Sun MediaPublished: Friday, January 9, 2004 Copyright: 2004 Canoe Limited PartnershipContact: letters edm.sunpub.comWebsite: http://www.fyiedmonton.com/htdocs/edmsun.shtmlRelated Articles & Web Site:Cannabis News Canadian Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/can.htmReluctant Jurors Convict Albertan Pot Crusaderhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17906.shtmlTwo Jurors Ask To Be Released from Pot Trialhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17905.shtmlCalgary Pot Case Legal Testhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17889.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #3 posted by FoM on January 11, 2004 at 10:55:35 PT test test [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by FoM on January 11, 2004 at 10:44:30 PT News Article from Snipped Source Pot Plants Found in Raid on B.C. Gov't Aide's Property Marijuana Grow-op Dismantled Sunday, January 11, 2004Copyright: 2004 Edmonton Journal SHAWNIGAN LAKE, B.C. - Police have dismantled a marijuana grow operation in a Vancouver Island home owned by David Basi, former assistant to B.C.'s finance minister.The drug raid took place over the Christmas holidays at around the same time as the raid on Basi's office in the British Columbia legislature.Basi purchased the rural property for $180,000 in March but lives at another address.Bob Brown, who lives across the street from the grow-op, said he was advised by Victoria police to keep quiet about the raid. "They got a bunch of plants in there. I'm not allowed to talk about it ... because the investigation is not over."There was no evidence of forced entry at the abandoned house on Friday.However, a some wilted but still green marijuana leaves were on a porch.On Dec. 28, police seized 32 boxes of documents from the offices of Basi and Robert Virk, who worked as ministerial aides for two provincial cabinet ministers.Basi has since been fired from his position as assistant to Finance Minister Gary Collins. Virk, who worked as an aide to Transportation Minister Judith Reid is currently suspended with pay.Police say the raid at the legislature is connected to a 20-month investigation into illegal drugs, organized crime, police corruption and commercial crime. Snipped:Complete Article: http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/story.asp?id=DD57E5C6-3DDE-4AAE-B39E-809DF74389A4 [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by FoM on January 09, 2004 at 11:07:52 PT Related Article from the Winnipeg Sun RCMP Arrest Pro-Pot PufferFriday, January 9, 2004 A Calgary-based medicinal pot crusader faces possession charges after being busted by Headingley Mounties on Tuesday. Grant Krieger, 49, said he was pulled over Tuesday night by RCMP, who seized roughly $7,500 worth of marijuana and cash from his vehicle. Krieger, an MS sufferer who has smoked marijuana for medicinal purposes since 1994, said the pot was for himself and a Selkirk resident stricken with cancer. Both are legally allowed to grow weed and smoke it for medicinal purposes, Krieger said yesterday. "What the police and the government are doing is ridiculous," said Krieger. "They don't have a clue about what they're doing -- they don't realize that there are sick people they're not helping who need this. It's discriminatory." Krieger is head of the Krieger Foundation, a group devoted to supplying the narcotic to those who need it for medical use. The group, which counts Winnipeg as one of nine communities in which it operates, supplies pot to people with serious medical ailments who are not necessarily legally entitled to smoke it, he said. Complete Article: http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2004/01/09/308241.html [ Post Comment ] Post Comment