MARIJUANA ACTIVISTS PAY KRIEGER'S TRAVEL EXPENSES

Grant Krieger, the Alberta medical marijuana activist whose appeal
from a 2003 drug-trafficking conviction is to be heard by the Supreme
Court of Canada today, will be able to attend the hearing now that a
group of pot activists has paid his travel expenses.

Mr. Krieger was not going to travel to Ottawa because he lives on a
government pension, and legal aid would pay only his lawyer's costs.
But several cannabis activists from Ottawa, Hamilton and Vancouver
pooled money to cover his air fare and hotel costs.

Mr. Krieger wants his conviction overturned because the judge in the
case told the jury they had no choice but to convict him.