[Nobar King]

Our wacky commie neighbors to the north are at it again. They've legalized medical marijuana, but, instead of requiring patients to use it in the privacy of their own homes, they've decided to allow them to smoke it outside, anywhere. That means that in Canada any disgusting hippy can walk by you and your family and blow his reefer smoke in your face without any fear of prosecution.

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Restaurant cites cost in abandoning rights complaint by medical marijuana user

May 13, 2008Francine Kopun

A Burlington businessman brought to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal after he told a medical marijuana user not to light up in front of his family restaurant has given up fighting the complaint because he couldn't afford the legal fees. "The financial burden, the burden on me and on my family was too much," Ted Kindos, owner of Gator Ted's Tap and Grill, said yesterday after reaching a settlement. Kindos said his lawyer told him it could cost up to $60,000 to continue fighting the complaint; it was scheduled for eight days of hearings at the Human Rights Tribunal beginning yesterday. Kindos said he has already spent $20,000.


Steve Gibson, a long-time customer, complained to the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 2005 after Kindos told him to leave the premises for smoking marijuana in the doorway of the restaurant at Burlington Heights Plaza.


"The principle I was fighting for was to be able to have quality of life and to be able to go out without being stuck at home because I need my medical marijuana," said Gibson, adding he was pleased with the settlement. The father of two suffered a neck injury in 1989 that prevents him from working. He says he manages the pain with exercise, hot tubs and heating pads, a prescription muscle relaxant and painkiller, and marijuana. He is on disability pension.

Neither Gibson nor Kindos would reveal details of the settlement, although Gibson did say he got what he originally asked for. It was reported in February that he sought $20,000 for mental anguish and for Kindos to pay for annual training and retraining of his staff on human rights policies.

Gibson did not hire a lawyer for the tribunal hearing. A lawyer from the Human Rights Commission was on hand to argue the case for the commission, which also investigated the complaint and recommended that it proceed to the Human Rights Tribunal. Although the commission's lawyers do not represent the complainants, their positions are often similar, said commission spokesperson Jeff Poirier.

"For the commission, this case is about being treated the same as the other smokers. This is a smoker with a disability who uses medicinal marijuana that's legally prescribed to him so he's seeking access to the designated smoking area," said Poirier. Kindos said he originally refused to allow Gibson to smoke marijuana in the smoking room of the restaurant. Gibson then began smoking in front of the restaurant and patrons complained of the smell, said Kindos. Parents didn't want their children exposed to it. Gibson says he never smoked marijuana in front of children, and does not smoke it in front of his two children, ages 14 and 10.

This statement is the most telling:

The father of two suffered a neck injury in 1989 that prevents him from working. He says he manages the pain with exercise, hot tubs and heating pads, a prescription muscle relaxant and painkiller, and marijuana. He is on disability pension.

This guy is unemployed, and he spends his days in a hot tub and getting massages and taking valiums and smoking reefer. The government believes this and even PAYS this cheater. Sounds like a hippy to me. I just can't believe that those Canadians would side with him over a business owner who is contributing to society, not sponging off of it.

Also, he spends all day long smoking marijuana, even smoking it out in public, but claims that his children have never seen him do it. Yeah right. They're probably already pinching from daddy's stash.