MAN'S MEDICINAL MARIJUANA SOURCE DISMANTLED IN RAID

ABBOTSFORD - 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, where he takes a criminal law course from Abbotsford
police chief Ian McKenzie, 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.

Since last fall, Carlisle has held a permit to grow marijuana at the
Bradner property of marijuana activist, Tim Felger.

Last Thursday, Felger and another man were arrested at about 9:30
a.m., as they were leaving the property to deliver the marijuana to
Carlisle. He said he had asked them to deliver the medicinal pot to
him as his car couldn't make it through the snow that morning.

Carlisle says the marijuana, which he inhales as a vapour, controls
his nausea and allows him to function normally. Carlisle said he now
has no source of medication and doesn't want to go to street dealers.

Carlisle grew his own marijuana plants until he was beaten and shocked
with a Taser by masked attackers in his Chilliwack home last
September. No arrests were made in that incident. He said he's too
afraid to grow the marijuana himself.