Pregnant Cannabis Café owner jailed for one year in Saint John
A New Brunswick judge jailed Cannabis Café owner Lynn Wood for one year on 1 June 2005 for distributing cannabis from her Saint John shop. The six-months-pregnant mother of three had argued the café was a compassion club for medical users.
🇨🇦 Saint John, New Brunswick · New Brunswick, Canada
Lynn Wood, who ran the Cannabis Café in Saint John with her husband, was sentenced to one year in jail on 1 June 2005 for distributing cannabis from the shop.[1]Judge Murray Cain refused house arrest, finding she was a risk to re-offend, so the mother of three would give birth to her fourth child in a prison hospital.[1]Wood maintained that all cannabis sales had been for medical purposes.[1]
The court had convicted Wood of drug trafficking in February 2005 and rejected her defence that the café was a compassion club selling only to medical users, with the judge calling that argument a sham.[2]Sentencing had first been set for 12 May.[2]The café had stopped selling marijuana after the June bust but remained open.[2]
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