MEDICINAL POT USER FILES COMPLAINT AGAINST POLICE

Licensed medicinal marijuana user Brian Carlisle has filed a complaint
against the Abbotsford police for breach of their duties and for other issues.

Carlisle filed the complaint on Feb. 28, naming nine police officers in
connection with a Jan. 6 raid at former Marijuana Party candidate Tim
Felger's Bradner Road farm at 4505 Bradner Rd., Abbotsford.

The complaint is directed at the officers "for committing direct or
indirect breaches of their duties, misstatement of facts, and for
intentionally providing false and misleading information to the complainant
[Carlisle] with respect to the complainant's licensed medical marijuana
plants and dry marijuana bud seized by the Respondent on January 6, 2005."

Carlisle inhales marijuana through a vaporizer to ease the debilitating
nausea that stems from the medication he takes to treat his symptoms of
HIV/AIDS.

Since last fall, Carlisle has held a permit to grow marijuana at Felger's
property, where he also stored it, he writes in the complaint. During the
January 6 snowstorm, Carlisle asked Felger to deliver some marijuana to
him. When Felger was leaving his property as a passenger in another man's
truck, the Abbotsford police drug squad arrested the men. In their search
of the barn they found 2,090 marijuana plants of varying sizes.

Carlisle writes he took his federal Medical Marijuana Access Regulations
licence to the police station and asked for the return of 2,025 grams of
dry marijuana.

Const. Paul Jack first told Carlisle and his wife Shannon there was no pot
available to be returned. Jack called Carlisle later and said there were
some budding plants, and the police took Carlisle to the Bradner property
to retrieve 25 plants.

Carlisle's licence allows for 25 plants which yield 30 grams each, for a
total of 750 grams, and also another 1,125 grams of dry marijuana. However,
Carlisle's complaint said the police allowed him to take 25 immature plants
which yielded only four grams of dry marijuana bud per plant, or about 100
grams.

While at Felger's property, Carlisle also learned from police officers
present there was also a quantity of dry marijuana, which he claimed as
his, but the police wouldn't let him have it.

Carlisle and his wife say they have asked the police several times since
Jan. 6 for the dry marijuana and plants but they have been refused. The
police have destroyed all the marijuana.

"We asked them not to destroy the plants, but they did," said Shannon Carlisle.

She said her husband is unwell as he is taking another round of medications
but doesn't have the marijuana to ease his symptoms. She said police should
have checked with Health Canada to see if there was legal marijuana licence
in place.

Felger, meanwhile, is in custody regarding the January 6 raid and may face
preliminary hearings in July.

Felger also awaits two trials relating to other charges of cultivating
marijuana.