POT PARTY TO RALLY FOR TEENS

WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba Cannabis Party plans to demonstrate at Kelvin high
school today in support of nine teens charged with drug dealing last year.

"I'm sick and tired of one-sided stories being told that drugs are evil,"
party spokesman Chris Buors told The Sun yesterday. "I don't see drug
dealers as evil people, I see them as persecuted people."

Police and school officials said they won't interfere with the
demonstration so long as it stays off school grounds. But they dispute the
message the pro-dope party plans to give students.

"Kelvin doesn't persecute drug-using kids by calling the police, they refer
them to Addictions Foundation of Manitoba," said vice Insp. Stan Tataryn.
"So I don't know where this group is coming from on that one."

Last November, nine students at Kelvin were charged with trafficking after
an undercover female police officer was sold ecstasy and marijuana.