Pubdate: Wed, 23 Mar 2016
Source: North Island Gazette (CN BC)
Copyright: 2016 Black Press
Contact:  http://www.northislandgazette.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2783
Author: Michael J. Dee

RECREATIONAL USERS DENIED EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER CHARTER OF RIGHTS

Tom Fletcher wrote, "The Federal Court decreed last week that people
have the right to grow their own 'medical' marijuana."

If he read the decision he would have said the right of liberty gave
persons protection to grow medical marijuana against unreasonable
police power, discriminating against recreational users.

Every person arrested has been deprived of their liberty and has the
right as a defence to claim the marijuana laws are unreasonable and
arbitrary.

Criminalizing marijuana cannot be demonstrably justified in a free and
democratic society. Possessing marijuana is not a threat to the rights
of others, public safety.

Why are recreational users denied equal protection of law, sections 1,
7, 8, and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights
and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits
prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and
democratic society.

7. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person
and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the
principles of fundamental justice.

8. Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or
seizure.

15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law, and has
the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without
discrimination.

Michael J. Dee

Augusta, Maine
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