A longtime advocate for the use of medical marijuana has agreed to give up a fight that has seen him battle the justice system as far as the Supreme Court of Canada.
Grant Krieger, 54, who has for years vocally defended his right to provide marijuana to the sick, signed a legal document Tuesday pledging to stop growing or distributing it.
Krieger admitted Tuesday that he could no longer keep up the fight.
“It’s taken 13 years out of my life, destroyed my family, removed my driver’s licence,” he said. “It’s cost me a phenomenal amount of money. I’m in hock up to my eyeballs.”
via – CBC News “Activist for medical marijuana gives up crusade“
[Grant is one of many who have labored for years to end idiotic cannabis prohibition laws. As Voltaire wrote, "It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.“ So many have had their careers, families, friendships, businesses, bank accounts, and peace of mind destroyed for simply being right about marijuana and unafraid to say so. I have nothing but the utmost respect for people like Grant and I completely understand when the battle becomes too much to bear. Remember Grant and the others like him every day when you get ready to fire off that letter to the editor, that angry phone call to a bone-headed legislator, or that donation to NORML. Illegitimi non carborundum! (or, more properly: Noli nothis permittere te terere!)
