OPP EXECUTE SEARCH WARRANT AT THE INDEPENDENT

Plainclothes personnel from the Ontario Provincial Police served a
search warrant at The Independent as we were going to press on Tuesday
afternoon. Below, managing editor Bart Hawkins Kreps opens digital
photos on computer as OPP officer Rick Barnum looks on. Barnum and
Constable Kelly Mason, who declined to be photographed for security
reasons, left the office with a CD containing photographs taken for a
feature article in our October 10 issue. The article profiled Lady Dyz
Helping Hands, a medical marijuana growing operation headed by Cramahe
resident Diane Bruce. The operation was subsequently busted by the
OPP, an action criticized in an Independent editorial, and Bruce was
jailed for nine days before being released on bail.

The articles and editorials in The Independent related to these raid on
legal medical marijuana patients and the raid on The Independent.

Wed, 10 Oct 2001:

A Joint Affair: The Suffering Few Who Legally Possess

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1814/a07.html

Wed, 24 Oct 2001:

Cramahe Farm Property Used To Grow Medical Marijuana

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1814/a08.html

Editorial: Canada's Big Drug Problem: The Law

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1815/a01.html

Wed, 31 Oct 2001:

Exemptees Ask Court To Return Medical Marijuana

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1847/a02.html

Marijuana Exemptee Freed After Nine Days In Jail

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1847/a01.html

Arrest Of Local Exemptee Attracts International Interest

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1847/a04.html

Editorial: Legal Machinations In Medical Marijuana Case

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1847/a03.html

Wed, 07 Nov 2001:

OPP Execute Search Warrant At The Independent (above)

PUB LTE: Justice Minister Should Exercise Leadership

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1883/a12.html

PUB LTE: Leaving Marijuana Distribution In Hands Of Organized Crime Is Dangerous

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1896/a04.html

Wed, 14 Nov 2001:

Medical Marijuana Growers Make Brighton Court Appearances

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1915/a04.html