MAN CLAIMS POT OPERATION WAS LICENSED

An Abbotsford man who uses marijuana to ease the overpowering nausea
he gets from his medications is furious his government-sanctioned
source was dismantled in a raid.

Brian Carlisle, a criminology student at the University College of the
Fraser Valley, said he will petition the court to get his growing
equipment returned.

"How did [the police] get permission to raid a garden licence? The
address was given to Health Canada. The police can check on that," he
said.

Carlisle has a permit to grow marijuana at the Bradner property of
marijuana activist Tim Felger.

Felger and another man were arrested Jan. 6 as they were leaving the
property to deliver the marijuana to Carlisle.

Carlisle was allowed by police to take 25 plants out of their
containers.

He grew his own marijuana plants until he was beaten and shocked with
a Taser by masked attackers in his Chilliwack home in September.

No arrests were made in that incident. He claims he's now too afraid
to grow the marijuana himself.

During the raid, the Abbotsford police drug squad seized 2,090 plants
in various stages of growth, along with an undetermined amount of
growing equipment.

Felger, a Marijuana Party candidate in the last federal election, will
appear in Abbotsford Provincial Court for a hearing on Jan. 24.