Even pot activist agrees city should have ground out cafe
By Susan Clairmont
The Hamilton Spectator
(Aug 17, 2006)
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1155765013261&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1014656511815“With owner Chris Goodwin chilling for the past three weeks in the Barton Street jail on charges of possession of marijuana,
possession for the purpose of trafficking and breaching conditions, the King Street East cafe has officially closed shop.”
The irony is, that could leave this City as an accomplice, knowing full well that nature of this business and participated in the
aiding of such, “Goodwin laid it all out in meetings with city staff, local business owners and even the police vice and drugs unit.
He proclaimed in media interviews that customers would be smoking pot in the cafe.”
Considering the facts I am not sure how, “Chris Goodwin” can be charged on such activities
with the City not being part of said charges...In fact the City onus to liability and participation in
this criminal matter is perhaps more onerous than that of Goodwin.
What do you think...?
Comments appreciated
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