FELGER PLEADS GUILTY TO THREE POT CHARGES

Abbotsford's marijuana advocate Tim Felger says he's broke after he
pleaded guilty Monday in Chilliwack Supreme Court to three counts of
cultivating pot for the purpose of trafficking.

He was sentenced to six months in jail, a 10-year ban on firearms and
a $210,000 fine.

The charges related to police raids on his former farm at 4505 Bradner
Road on Jan. 3, 2002, May 2003, and Jan. 6, 2005.

In the last raid, which happened during a snowstorm, Abbotsford police
found 2,090 plants in various stages of maturity.

Twenty-five of the plants, the equipment and dry marijuana found at
the property were claimed by Brian Carlisle, a medical marijuana user
who had an exemption through Health Canada to grow pot and was using
Felger's barns for that purpose. Abbotsford police officers helped
Carlisle through the storm to access his medical marijuana.

But since he had breached bail orders handed down by judges from the
two earlier pot busts, and because he could not pay a $150,000 bail,
Felger was held in custody for 100 days at the Fraser Regional
Correctional Centre in Maple Ridge.

As Felger faced seizure of his 20-acre farm by his mortgage holder, he
was forced to sell later in 2005. He claimed the land sold for
$849,000, but a net profit of around $600,000 was ordered to be held
in trust by a prosecutor's order.

Felger had purchased the property several years earlier, after selling
a pizza chain business. He says he began to use marijuana and his
fight to end its prohibition after he suffered back injuries in a 1995
car accident.

Felger said Wednesday about $20,000 of the seized monies went to the
City of Abbotsford in back taxes and to pay fines and inspection costs
as prescribed through the city's public safety bylaw, which targets
marijuana grow operations.

With other monies going to pay for lawyers' fees, Felger calculated he
was left with $460,000.

From that, he will pay his court fine, but he said it's not likely he
will be able to access the remaining $250,000, as it's tied up in
trusts relating to other litigations.

"I've got nothing left," said Felger, who leases a building at 33772
Essendene Avenue in downtown Abbotsford, which he uses as a venue for
his marijuana and anti-prohibition advocacy.

Felger attempted to voice his political message about ending marijuana
prohibition to the judge on Monday, but said she cut him off "after I
got four pages into it."

"I had a right to speak. I laid out the facts about the CIA's
complicity in drug trafficking. She cut me off - she didn't want to
hear it," said Felger.