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Guilty plea entered on 2009 drug charge

Published on October 12, 2012; Published on October 11, 2012

Topics :: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Traffic Services West , Trans-Canada Highway , CORNER BROOK , Newfoundland , Ottawa

CORNER BROOK — One of two men arrested in a highway drug bust in western Newfoundland nearly three years ago has pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis marijuana for the purposes of trafficking.

Samuel William Lord, now 24, was arrested with Emmanuel Beck Rivest, who is now 22, after Royal Canadian Mounted Police Traffic Services West stopped an east bound vehicle on the Trans-Canada Highway near Corner Brook in early December 2009.

After police found marijuana in their possession, a further search of the vehicle led to the seizure of around five kilograms of marijuana. The two men, both of whom are from the Ottawa area, were charged with trafficking and possession for the purposes of trafficking in marijuana.

The trafficking charge against Lord has been withdrawn by the Crown and a decision on how to proceed with the prosecution of Rivest will be made after Lord’s facts and sentencing hearing takes place on Jan. 22.

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Tony

- October 13, 2012 at 10:52:40

Some relevant facts re: marijuana prohibition. - Is a human rights issue. - Serves as a control grid to project government power. - A monkey can interdict it. - If pot is smelled/suspected your rights are gone. You become a "target" for prison and forfeiture (theft of your property). - Deprives sick people of literally life saving medicine. - Protects "chosen" markets from competition (Pharma, tobacco, alcohol) while cashing in on prison industrial complex. - Provides banks with massive profits to the point where they are dependent on it for stability in many places. - Enables corruption through massive black market. - Creates massive criminal gang organizations who recruit youth. -Provides children access to hard drugs through the black market. -Provides massive political capital to politicians who cash in on the fear of an older generation and the indoctrinated religious steeped in Reefer Madness hysteria and "puritanism". - Marijuana prohibition has very little to do with public safety. Marijuana Prohibition =Tyranny

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Billy Stonehedge

- October 12, 2012 at 12:42:38

geee, thats a lot of pot, Why dont they just come out and say it,,they got their sacrifical lamb,and the inept law society got another decision to make,,, his wool will make great socks for sneeking around in the night time being a good citizen, after Cane is put in jail. Whats all the pot heades going to do now that 12 lbs of canibas plants are gone up in smoke

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- Shawn
  
  - October 12, 2012 at 18:52:33
  
  For every 5KGs they get, another 500KGs go through... Why the heck do they bring it here anyway? Does the sun not shine in NL as it does in Ottawa?

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