From: johnturmel@yahoo.com   
      
                          PRESS RELEASE   
      
   Who: Marijuana Exemptees Stephen Burrows & Robert Roy   
      
   Why: Grow Permits grandfathered, not Possess Permits.   
      
   What: Interim exemption denied by Phelan J.   
      
   How: Serving and Filing Appeal Motion for interim relief.   
      
   Where: Halifax Federal Courthouse ________   
      
   When: 12:00pm Thursday July 3 2014   
      
   STEPHEN BURROWS   
   On Jan 13 2014 Stephen Burrows's exemption Grow and Possess   
   Permits expired after using cannabis oil had cut the size of   
   his cancerous tumors in half. He did not renew under the   
   MMAR because:   
   1) any new crop reaped in remaining days would have had to   
   be destroyed on April 1 2014 upon the Health Canada   
   Directive;   
   2) $400 would be wasted on the doctor appointment;   
   3) he could not afford to apply under the MMPR for the high-   
   priced product sold by a Licensed Producer.   
      
   ROBERT ROY   
   Robert Roy has multiple serious illnesses and his ATP   
   expired on Mar 18 2014. He did not renew with only 2 weeks   
   to grow before all marijuana had to be destroyed. He too   
   cannot afford the MMPR prices.   
      
   On Mar 21 2014, Justice Manson in Allard v. HMTQ Ordered all   
   Grow-Permits be grandfathered to Oct 1 2013 but not the   
   Possess Permits, only current ones would remain valid.   
      
   So Burrows nor Roy could use their Grow Permit without their   
   Possess Permit and have been without affordable marijuana   
   since then. Had Roy's permits expired 3 days later, he would   
   have qualified for the Allard relief!   
      
   On Apr 29 2014, Burrows and Roy moved Federal Court for an   
   interim exemption for Personal Medical Use proffering their   
   ATP Numbers as proof of their underlying qualifying medical   
   diagnosis with no rebuttal by the Crown.   
      
   On June 4 2014 Justice Phelan dismissed their motions for   
   a) failure to include a copy of their ATPs;   
   b) failure of the old ATP to be sufficient evidence of their   
   medical need to warrant any medical relief from the Court.   
      
   They are now filing for interim relief from a judge of the   
   Federal Court of Appeal [A-289-14 & A-291-14]. The grounds   
   of the appeal are that:   
   a) The ATP Number validated the diagnosis of medical need   
   and a copy of the ATP is superfluous to that diagnosis;   
   wouldn't the Crown have pointed it out if they were lying?   
   b) the doctor's opinion of the medical need should have   
   sufficed; why does the judge need to see the medical   
   evidence for the diagnosis made by the doctor?   
      
   Is it reasonable to condemn people to death by no medication   
   for failure to provide a copy of an undisputed permit or for   
   lack of medical evidence a court has no education to judge?   
      
   JCT: Okay, Gold Stars. Phelan J. nixed everyone's meds for   
   no good reasons If they get theirs, you'll get yours. So   
   pass this Press Release around to all the media you know.   
   After all, they may have reported on the unprecedented flood   
   of applicants in Federal Court but seem to have forgotten to   
   have reported on his denial of everyone's meds! No one   
   provided sufficient evidence of medical need! Quite the   
   ruling! And it only hits the news tomorrow because of the   
   appeals for the same relief from a higher judge.   
      
   By reporting on appealing to a higher judge for meds,   
   they'll have to mention Phelan J. said no to 275 sick and   
   dying people and no nose for news sniffed it out yet. Har   
   har har.   
      
   Tomorrow high noon in Halifax. And remember, THE TERRY   
   PARKER is already filed!!! They are joining THE TERRY PARKER   
   whom Phelan nixed too saying Parker's case was too distinct   
   from R. v. Parker [2000]!   
      
   Then Ray files his motion for the ATPs unhappy with going to   
   jail under the benefits of the Allard continuation of the   
   MMAR! All classes except healthy me covered! Minimum costs   
   if they want to be nasty and it the class reps win, everyone   
   files next day if that judge doesn't extend it to everyone!   
      
   Get it! If the reps get theirs, you'll get yours too right   
   away unless they want an avalanche of paperwork! And they k   
   now it's no bluff, don't they?   
      
   So if you want yours same day they get theirs, you've got to   
   help make their predicaments the causes celebres they really   
   are right now. You've got all night and until tomorrow to   
   call, fax, email, leave a comment, at every news outlet you   
   can with the Paddy and Rob PRESS RELEASE.   
      
   Isn't neat that Paddy the Biker stopped from curing his   
   cancers with cannabis oil is also Left-Out Representative   
   Stephen Patrick Burrows!! Fluky, isn't it? Serendipitous?!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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