MEDICINAL MARIJUANA USER COMPLAINS ABOUT POLICE ACTION IN POT BUST

ABBOTSFORD - Licensed medicinal marijuana user Brian Carlisle has filed a
complaint against Abbotsford police for breach of their duties and other
issues.

Carlisle filed the complaint in connection with a raid on a Bradner Road
farm operated by Tim Felger.

The complaint is directed at the officers "for committing direct or
indirect breaches of their duties, misstatement of facts, and for
intentionally providing false and misleading information to the complainant
[Carlisle] with respect to the complainant's licensed medical marijuana
plants and dry marijuana bud seized by the respondent on January 6, 2005."

Carlisle inhales marijuana through a vapourizer to ease nausea from
medication he takes to treat symptoms of HIV/AIDS, and has a permit to grow
marijuana at Felger's property. On Jan. 6 Carlisle asked Felger to deliver
marijuana to him. When Felger was leaving his property as a passenger in
another man's truck, the Abbotsford police drug squad arrested the men and
found 2,090 marijuana plants in a barn.