LEGION BRANCH SHUT DOWN OVER MEDICINAL POT ROW

MACCAN, N.S. - Officials with the Royal Canadian Legion have shut
down a Nova Scotia branch after members used the local hall to
promote the use of locally produced marijuana oil for cancer patients.

The legion's Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command temporarily suspended the
charter of the Maccan branch and ousted its executive.

Provincial command chairman Steve Wessel said the legion name,
insignia and buildings cannot be used to promote the use of illegal substances.

But one executive member said he's not backing down.

"This medicine is so phenomenal," Rick Dwyer of Maccan said Thursday.
"I'm so proud of the members for standing up and defending this."

Dwyer, the 51-year-old past president of the Maccan branch, said the
homemade marijuana oil is a safe, natural, cancer-curing substance.