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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Kelly Anderson, Saskatoon Man, Claims Pot Shop Closure Is Discriminatory 🌿Kelly Anderson, Saskatoon Man, Claims Pot Shop Closure Is Discriminatory
SASKATOON -- A man has launched a complaint with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission over a police raid on a Saskatoon medical marijuana dispensary.
Kelly Anderson took the action Friday after police arrested four people at the Saskatchewan Compassion Club on Oct. 29, including owner Mark Hauk.
The complaint names Mayor Don Atchison and police chief Clive Weighill.
Anderson says the unlicensed club was the only place he felt safe purchasing marijuana to treat his chronic pain caused by a weakening of one knee and surgery on the other.
He says the closure of the dispensary denies him access to his medicine and is therefore discriminating against his condition.
Anderson says he fears that going to a licensed producer will cause him to lose his own growing license.
"It's cruel. It's denying people medicine that need it,'' he said outside Saskatoon Police headquarters Saturday where around two dozen people protested...
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