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Supreme Court dismisses pot house seizure orders

May 29' date=' 2009

The Canadian Press

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OTTAWA — The country’s top court says a convicted marijuana grower won’t lose her house as crime-related property.

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 5-2 that Judy Ann Craig, convicted of growing pot worth more than $100,000 in her Vancouver home, does not have to give up her house.

It’s the first time the high court has tested federal drug laws that allow confiscation of assets related to crime.

Prosecutors say the laws are a powerful deterrent against home-based grow-ops.

Craig’s lawyer says the law should target organized traffickers and that it unfairly punishes home-based growers.

Lower courts had issued conflicting rulings on when it’s appropriate to order the seizure of grow-op houses as proceeds of crime.[/quote']

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