Medicinal pot crusader busted

WINNIPEG -- A Calgary-based medicinal pot crusader faces possession charges
after being busted by Headingley Mounties on Tuesday.

Grant Krieger, 49, said he was pulled over Tuesday night by RCMP, who seized
roughly $7,500 worth of marijuana and cash from his vehicle. Krieger, an MS
sufferer who has smoked marijuana for medicinal purposes since 1994, said
the pot was for himself and a Selkirk resident stricken with cancer.

Both are legally allowed to grow weed and smoke it for medicinal purposes,
Krieger said yesterday.

Krieger is head of the Krieger Foundation, a group devoted to supplying the
narcotic to those who need it for medical use.

Krieger said all but a few grams of pot were seized by Mounties.

"These officers, in their infinite wisdom, decided I needed no more than
four or five grams and left it in my car," said Krieger, who smokes a
half-ounce of weed daily.

RCMP spokesman Sgt. Steve Saunders would not confirm Krieger's arrest. He
did say, though, that officers found an undisclosed quantity of marijuana
and cash after pulling a vehicle over on the Trans-Canada Highway near
Headingley early Tuesday evening.

Krieger was convicted by a Calgary judge just last month of trafficking pot
after testifying he distributed home-grown marijuana in 1999 to members of
his Compassion Club.


Pubdate: Friday, January 9, 2004
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
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Author: Kevin Engstrom