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Roach Burn
Pubdate: Thu, 09 Aug 2007
Source: NOW Magazine (CN ON)
Section: Up Front
Copyright: 2007 NOW Communications Inc.
Contact: http://www.nowtoronto.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/282
ROACH BURN
The irony is too delicious. A lawyer named Roach, in this case
Charles Roach, taking on the feds' reefer madness pot laws. Roach
argues in a class action filed Tuesday (August 7) in federal court
that laws making possession of pot illegal have had no force or
effect since July 2001. That's when the federal government was
ordered to enact a constitutionally valid law. It still hasn't.
Roach's suit asks for $25 million in compensation for persons
prosecuted under pot laws. Maybe the threat of having to pay out
millions in damages will finally light a fire under the feds' asses
to stop with their anti-cannabis charade. We're happily holding our
breath on this one.
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