CANADA POST SHIPPING CANNABIS

Legality Of Mail Order Pot Investigated

Canada Post has said it will investigate a Vancouver-based marijuana
mail-order business that provides "fast, discreet" service to those
declaring they suffer from one of a host of medical ailments.

Canada Post spokesman John Caines said it would be up to police to say
whether the postal pot operation, called Bud Buddy, was breaking the
law. But the Crown corporation will probe its use of the national mail
service.

"I'll bring it up to our legal people and they'll advise us on what
we're going to do then," Caines said from Ottawa. "We're going to look
into it."

B.C. Solicitor General Rich Coleman, meanwhile, said Saturday that he
hoped police would launch their own investigation into what seemed to
be simply another illegal way of selling an illegal drug.

"My expectations are no different on this than it would have been on
the Da Kine cafe," he said, referring to the Vancouver cafe that
closed this week following the arrest of owner Carol Gwilt and seven
employees on marijuana trafficking charges.

"If law enforcement is made aware of something that's illegal, my
expectation is that it would be investigated and the laws of the
country would be enforced."

Bud Buddy (www.budbuddy.biz) has been in business since August of last
year. It describes itself as "Canada's premium mail-order marijuana
delivery service."