KRIEGER GETS FOUR MONTHS

CALGARY -- Even after being sentenced to four months in jail, medical
marijuana crusader Grant Krieger said Tuesday he will not stop
supplying people with the illicit drug.

Judge William Pepler said Tuesday he felt he had no option but to jail
Krieger, who has a judicial exemption from 2000 to grow and possess
the drug to alleviate his multiple sclerosis.

The judge, however, was concerned about the Krieger's welfare after he
was told corrections authorities will not allow cannabis marijuana
into the jail.

He then deferred the sentence until June 18 to allow corrections
officials the opportunity to make a provision for Krieger to receive
his "medicine" while behind bars.

"I have no choice but to continue," Krieger said outside provincial
court in Calgary on Tuesday after being handed the penalty for mailing
801 grams of marijuana to two separate people in Manitoba in late 2003
and early 2004, to help alleviate their pain for chronic illnesses.