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Medical pot users get court reprieve Abbotsford lawyer wins injunction against grow op changes Alex BUTLER with files from Jeff NAGEL Abbotsford News
Medical marijuana users across Canada won a last-minute court reprieve on Friday, allowing them to keep growing their own pot at home instead of destroying it and turning
to new federally licensed commercial suppliers. Abbotsford lawyer John Conroy was in federal court in Vancouver last week, representing medical marijuana users and arguing that Health Canada’s new rules against at-home production are unconstitutional.
Conroy told The News he is pleased with the court ruling, which will maintain the status quo for many producers until the upcoming trial, for which a date has not been set. He said without the injunction there Continued on A3
Another group formed on homeless issue Alex BUTLER Abbotsford News
A new society aimed at helping the homeless has been launched in Abbotsford, with plans for a project that would see a transitional housing campground. The society includes four members of the homeless community, the 5 and 2 Ministries, the BC/ Yukon Drug War Survivors, the Abbotsford Downtown Business Association (ADBA) and other community members. At Monday’s annual general meeting of the ABDA, the organization approved $10,000 in funding for the society. Paul MacLeod, former president of the ADBA and member of the society, said the money will help the group move forward on its plans to build a project similar in concept to Portland’s Dignity Village. That project provides electricity, a septic system, access to showers and security on a twoacre plot of land in an industrial Continued on A3
CHURCH VANDALIZED A7 Abbotsford Police search for a man who threw a rock through a church’s glass door
NDP PANS RECYCLE PLAN A5 Official opposition joins business groups in decrying new recycling system in B.C.
MEASLES CONTAINED A5 The number of confirmed cases has grown to 228, according to Fraser Health
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85¢ The Abbotsford Downtown Business Association has approved $10,000 for a new society that has formed to help the File photo homeless in the city.
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