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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: WindAndConfusion on Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 08:39:08 AM
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Kindos owns Gator Ted's Tap & Grill in Burlington. Four years ago, he asked a marijuana smoker to step away from his front door.
The medically licensed toker complained to the Ontario Human Rights Commission of bias against a disabled person. He won.
Kindos was about to pay the fine and post obligatory signs saying, "We accommodate medicinal marijuana smokers," when a different government agency told him he could lose his liquor licence. Serving anybody possessing a controlled substance – prescribed or not – is against the law.
Also:
“People didn’t like the way I smell,” the smoker, Steve Gibson, acknowledged of one complaint against him from fellow patrons.
“But I don’t like a lot of smells either,” he said. “I can’t bare to stand near some chicks, they’ve got so much perfume on, let alone some ethnics that I don’t like the smell of that much.”
http://www.thestar.com/article/585012
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California is in that boat. State law allows medicinal pot. Federal law makes it a crime. There has to be something better for lawmakers and enforcers to spend their time and money on. Got to be. Leave natural weeds and their uses alone.
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That is messed up. Especially in Canada; the one place I'd expect officials to be a bit more reasonable about such matters.
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Haha. The CHRC is such a joke.
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Was the guy a patron? If not, then he was just loitering...post some "no loitering" signs up.