Marijuana for Medicinal Purposes

While drugs prescription makes him sickening, marijuana smoking brings more pleasure and allows him to sleep easier, ease the pain and gives him an appetite.

"I just started last year," Leonard Kelly told the judge on Monday in provincial court.

Anyway the 56-year-old Campbell River resident while living off a small work incapacity pension was growing marijuana illegally. Consequently, after RCMP raided his Cedar Street inhabitancy on Nov. 18, 2008, and disarrayed an unpretentious indoor grow operation consisting of five small plants. Among their findings there was a pound of exsiccated pot.

According to federal Crown prosecutor Marsha Down endorsement the marijuana was for Kelly's proprietary use and only for this reason he was incriminated in possession and not a more strong charge of propagation. After there was nothing for Kelly but to plead guilty to dispossess of a controlled substance, Down asked Judge Brian Saunderson to surcharge a fine of $750 and to determine for him a probationary appointment for six months.

Despite his transgression the defense lawyer Vince Martin set forth forcefully that the fine would be a heartrending experience on Kelly who receives a disability pension of $697 per month. He preferred to dissemble what severe challenge the former architectonical worker has, but Kelly moved lingeringly and used a walking-stick as walked to the front of the judgement-hall.

"I was born and raised in Newfoundland and I've been in B.C. for 30 years. I worked on the tunnel at Rogers Pass," Kelly told the court.

He wasn't enlightened he could ask his MD about addressing to the federal government to plant marijuana for medicinal use for some time past switched doctors .

"There is, of course, an avenue for him to follow and that is getting the requisite permits - I would encourage him to do this," said Judge Brian Saunderson.

Nevertheless the arbiter pointed he was pleasantly sufficed to know that Kelly smoked marijuana for medicinal purposes and diminished to surcharge a fine. That is why he was given a deterministic absolution and placed on probationary appointment for six months. Moreover the Crown is inevitable to return $180 to Kelly that was possessed during the raid. According to Kelly his money was his impoverished money holdings which were intended to be spent on Christmas presents for his grandchildren. Therefore the grow arrangement was sequestrated to the Crown.

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