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A former RCMP officer and his wife are pursuing legal action after they say their medical marijuana facilities were raided by Sooke RCMP.
Cam Cavaco, who has late-stage progressive multiple sclerosis, and his wife Marnie O’Neil, who acts as his caregiver and is living with fibromyalgia, are suing Health Canada and the RCMP after they allege their medical marijuana plants were destroyed twice within six months.
The statement of claim filed by the couple’s attorney Kirk Tousaw alleges that Sooke RCMP raided Cavaco’s Health Canada licensed facilities without a warrant in December 2009, then destroyed the facilities.
“The license was posted at the site and the landlord was ignored when he asked to see a warrant and requested the police contact Mr. Cavaco,” the statement of claim reads.
The couple also alleges that Health Canada failed to properly process licenses, and that they “unduly pressured” their doctor to decrease Cavaco’s permitted amounts of medical marijuana.
The couple are seeking damages after they say the police raids left them “spiritually, emotionally and financially bankrupt.”
“As Cam grew more debilitated I had to turn my focus from our restaurant, to home,” O’Neil said in a statement.
“The cost of trying to replace everything that was destroyed, my own symptoms flaring, working and managing the business, the stress was off the charts. Then the push over the edge came when the RCMP returned and it started all over again, only worse.”
"What comes around, goes around." and perhaps, maybe throw in a dash of:
Payback's a bitch, ain't it?" for good measure.
When he was a cop, attacking all sorts of non-violent non-criminals, he didn't bat an eye...so now that he's the victim of the same sort of abuse he's inflicted upon thousands of other people over the years, he's suddenly got a problem with it?
Tough luck...maybe now he'll start seeing things without the "I'm a cop and I'm above the law" attitude and start to understand that cannabis/hemp prohibition needs to be REPEALED once and for all, if we ever expect to put an end to this sort of thing in Canada.
It's time to get the criminals out of the market...and this definitely includes the RCMP!
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To imply that Officer Cavaco deserves to suffer because he served the public on the other side of this battle shows the kind of arrogance that led to the destruction of his very necessary pain medication. Don't assume that because there may be a handful of misguided police officers that Officer Cavaco was one of them. Don't slander someone you have never met. Don't presume to know his service record. And DO NOT confuse his job with his right to proper treatment.
I feel it is a shame these people needlessly endured the additional suffering at the hands of the very system Officer Cavaco swore to protect. Progressive M.S. Is always fatal. This lawsuit is one last attempt for Officer Cavaco to try to help others by standing up for what is right as he likely won't be alive to celebrate the win. Should he make it to verdict, what quality of life will he have without pain management. Shame on the Sooke RCMP.
Fry those involved!
Completely ridiculous and love the replies.
Except the part of paying the guy back.
An eye for an eye leaves us all blind.
When we do as was done to us = we become that.
Access to justice in this illegal colony called Canada is ridiculous at best. Getting worse every year. A system built by bullshit greedy white hetero capitalists. Accessible to the wealthy.
We have rights when we exercise them regularly.
Fight we must - together!
This couple and all who are in situations like this have my full support - regardless if they were cops or not.
Once again - the cops do whatever the hell they like.
The courts back their bull up as well.
How about the media expose all this?
How about the community unite around this issue and have justice SERVED!
Assumption: a proposition that is taken for granted, as if it were true based upon presupposition without preponderance of the facts.
You are coming across as an unintelligent, or at the very least, extremely uninformed human being. You speak as if you were there, "When he was a cop, attacking all sorts of non-violent non-criminals, [and] he didn't bat an eye.." Do you know officer Cavaco's police record? Have you encountered his "abuse inflicted upon thousands of other people over the years"? I will fully retract my statement, if Officer Cavaco did, indeed, arrest you wrongfully, or harm you in anyway. .. As the old saying goes, "Do not assume things..." Need I finish this statement?