Pubdate: Tue, 18 Dec 2012
Source: Kamloops This Week (CN BC)
Copyright: 2012 Kamloops This Week
Contact:  http://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1271

HUMAN-RIGHTS COMPLAINT LAUNCHED

A Kamloops woman who claims a legal medicinal-marijuana grow caused
government social workers to temporarily remove her family from their
Dallas home says she's launching a human-rights complaint.

Angela Ferguson said Ministry of Children and Family Development
social workers booted her family - including her eight-month-old son,
15-year-old stepson and medical-marijuana cardholder husband - from
their home on Nov. 28.

According to Ferguson, social workers showed up alongside RCMP, who
were responding to a tip about a grow-op. Ferguson said Mounties
checked her Health Canada papers and went on their way, but the social
workers did not.

The social workers, Ferguson said, ordered her family to leave the
home pending a number of tests.

Ferguson said she had to come up with more than $4,500 to pay to have
the air quality, electrical and ventilation examined.

Though her home passed inspection, Ferguson said there is no means for
her to be reimbursed for the tests.

Ferguson said her family is filing a complaint against the ministry
with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. 
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