MARIJUANA ADVOCATES MOUNT CAMPAIGN

Advocates of medicinal and recreational use of marijuana are promoting
a Toronto university professor's legal self-defence kit to help people
avoid criminal convictions for a law they believe is
unconstitutional.

Keith and Debbie Fagin took that message to the steps of the Calgary
Courts Centre on Monday, handing out information on how to obtain and
use the kits provided by Doug Hutchinson, a philosophy professor at
the University of Toronto's Trinity College.

"As long as it's 30 grams or less, as long as it's not broken up for
sale," said Keith Fagin, a member of Calgary 420, a group advocating
personal and medicinal use of the illicit drug.

"If it's for sale, that's a completely different issue. This is just
for simple possession for personal use."

Calgary police officers are working with national police services to
have a unified and co-ordinated response to deal with the
discrepancies in the medicinal marijuana legislation, but police still
have to enforce the laws, said Sgt. Ryan Ayliffe of the city drug unit.

"We, as police officers, don't have the luxury of picking and choosing
which laws we enforce," Ayliffe said.

"We go with what the laws are in the books, and we enforce them to the
best of our ability."