POT ADVOCATE CHARGED AGAIN

Pot crusader Grant Krieger is facing new drug charges.

City police report that Krieger was arrested early Thursday afternoon
following a routine traffic stop.

Officers found 550 grams of marijuana and drug trafficking
paraphernalia, said Staff Sgt. Roger Chaffin of the drug unit.

Krieger has been charged with possession of narcotics for the purpose
of trafficking.

The Calgary resident, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, won a
five-year legal battle in December 2000 to smoke marijuana for
medicinal reasons. Since then, however, Krieger and his suppliers
have been charged on several occasions.

Krieger has argued that people such as him are too sick to grow their
own supply.

Health Canada passed new regulations last year allowing applicants to
possess or grow their own marijuana if they can prove their pain
can't be treated with other drugs.