New Brunswick Court of Appeal rejected Thursday a Saint John woman's argument that she was running a "compassion club" for medicinal marijuana users. However, the province's high court will still consider Lynn Wood's appeal of her marijuana trafficking conviction, albeit on other grounds. Lynn Wood was convicted in February 2005 of trafficking marijuana, and was sentenced to a term of one year in prison. The trial judge said she was running a sham compassion club because she sold marijuana to a teenager and an undercover police officer. [continues 152 words]
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick woman sentenced to a year in jail for operating a compassion club for marijuana users is returning to court to appeal her sentence. Lynn Wood will appear before the Court of Appeal in Fredericton on Tuesday in hopes of overturning her conviction for trafficking in marijuana. Although Wood was convicted in early June, she has served only 29 days in jail. A Fredericton judge ordered her release earlier this summer so that she could deliver her fourth child at home. The infant is now a month old. Wood says her Cannabis Cafe in Saint John, N.B., was a compassion club where people could purchase marijuana for medicinal purposes. So far, the courts have not accepted that. [end]
Pot activist Marc Emery may soon be back in Nova Scotia, where he was arrested a month ago at the request of U.S. authorities for allegedly running a marijuana-seed delivery empire. Canada's Prince of Pot, now free on bail, is an unconfirmed guest speaker at a "massive" protest planned for high noon Sept. 10 at Halifax's Grand Parade. It's one of a number of similar events planned in nearly 100 cities worldwide. Protesters will call on Canada to block extradition of Mr. Emery and his two associates, Greg Williams and Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek, to the U.S. [continues 314 words]
Let's send Judge Murray Cain a large anchor. Somehow we have to bring him back to earth. Cain is the Saint John, N.B., judge who recently sentenced a pregnant woman named Lynn Wood, 32, to a year in jail. Her crime? Selling marijuana to an undercover officer. Cain's action is a good deal more reprehensible than Wood's. Admittedly, it's not entirely fair to blame a single judge, however dim-witted and dusty, for failing to deal brilliantly with a situation that should make every Canadian ashamed. Our foolish and destructive laws against the sale and use of drugs, particularly marijuana, cannot be enforced because vast numbers of Canadians - about 4.5 million in 2004 - routinely flout them. You can't jail 14 per cent of the population. [continues 724 words]
A New Brunswick judge has sentenced a pregnant woman to jail -- forcing her to have her baby behind bars this summer -- after selling marijuana in what she claims was a cannabis compassion club for medical users. Lynn Wood, 32, is six months pregnant. Her lawyer had pleaded with New Brunswick provincial court Judge Murray Cain to place his client under house arrest to let her deliver her baby at home. But Cain insisted on a prison term Wednesday, saying Wood was likely to keep selling pot if not jailed. He said she would have access to medical care while having the baby in prison. [continues 291 words]
(CNS: CP) A pregnant New Brunswick woman convicted of selling marijuana for what she insisted were medicinal purposes will have to deliver her baby in jail. Lynn Wood, 32, owner of the Cannabis Cafe in Saint John, N.B., was sentenced to one year in jail on Wednesday for trafficking in marijuana in a case that raised questions about the sale of pot to people who say it eases their pain and suffering. Wood, 32, who is six months pregnant, defended her cafe as a compassion club where people who wanted to purchase marijuana had to prove to her that they needed it for medicinal purposes. [continues 367 words]
The pregnant owner of New Brunswick's Cannabis Cafe was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail on charges of trafficking. Lynn Wood, 32, who is due to give birth in August, operated what she called a "compassion club" in Saint John. She says she sold marijuana, but only to people who swore an affidavit stating they needed it for medical reasons. Police arrested her in April 2004 after she sold marijuana to an undercover officer. She was arrested again two months later. [continues 78 words]
SAINT JOHN, N.B. -- A pregnant New Brunswick woman convicted of selling marijuana for what she insisted were medicinal purposes will have to deliver her baby in jail. Lynn Wood, 32, owner of the Cannabis Cafe in Saint John, was sentenced to one year in jail yesterday for trafficking in marijuana. Wood said the cafe was a compassion club where people who wanted to purchase marijuana had to prove to her that they needed it for medicinal purposes. [end]
A New Brunswick judge has sentenced a pregnant woman to a year in prison, even though she will have to give birth while in jail in August, and also has three other children at home. Lynn Wood, who with her husband owns the city's Cannabis Cafe, was convicted this year on two counts of trafficking marijuana. Wood maintains she was only selling pot to customers for medicinal purposes. Outraged cannabis activists say she is the first Canadian to go to jail for distributing pot to medical users. [end]
New Brunswick Woman Ran 'Cannabis Cafe', Claimed Drug Sold Only To Medicinal Users A New Brunswick judge has sentenced a pregnant woman to jail -- forcing her to have her baby behind bars this summer -- for selling marijuana in what she claims was a compassion club for medical users. Lynn Wood, 32, is six months pregnant. Her lawyer had pleaded with New Brunswick Provincial Court Judge Murray Cain to place Ms. Wood under house arrest to let her deliver her baby at home. [continues 495 words]
Lynn Wood Awaits Sentencing on Trafficking Charge After Cannabis Cafe Closure. Local Compassion Club Members Left Out in the Cold When you're a florist, not everything is bound to come up roses. Just ask Allen Merritt. The 25-year year veteran of the floral industry has had more than his fair share of misfortune - though he'd probably talk about most of it with a crooked smile on his face, and enough laughs to make you smile with him. His heavy head of black curls shaking back and forth, the cane-carrying man is full of stories and ambition. Having battled with HIV for close to 18 years, Merritt has lived through bouts of disease and poverty in good humour, though his blue eyes darken as he describes his arrest at the Cannabis Caf? back in 2003. [continues 1166 words]
Unreason Prevails In The Case Of The Cannabis Cafe I want to support Jim and Lynn Wood, really I do. I think the owners of the Cannabis Cafe are getting a raw deal from the cops and the courts for selling marijuana to consenting adults. After all, we live in a liberal society and people should be allowed to mess themselves up any way they choose, within reason. I think most Saint Johners think the way I do - kind hearted, live and let live types who see nothing wrong with marijuana use. Heck, we even occasionally enjoy pot ourselves and we're eager to see it legalized. [continues 618 words]
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Ottawa's slow and cautious response to requests for medicinal marijuana has become an issue for the defence in a New Brunswick drug trafficking trial. Final arguments were made Wednesday in the trial of Lynn Wood, co-owner of the Cannabis Cafe in Saint John, N.B., who has been charged with two counts of trafficking in marijuana. Wood's lawyer, Richard Northrup, said the Cannabis Cafe is a compassion club where customers have to sign a sworn declaration or produce a doctor's certificate stating they need marijuana to ease a medical condition. [continues 482 words]
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