Marijuana Activist Lisa Kirkman Fights to Get Her Son Back
Lisa Kirkman has spent the last two years trying to regain custody of her 12-year-old son, Noah, and have him returned to their home in Calgary, Canada. Her dilemma, according to the Calgary Sun, is “on the verge of becoming an international incident.”
The saga stems from a 2008 trip Noah made to his visit his stepfather in Oregon. Noah, who reportedly suffers from several mental health issues, was stopped by police for riding a bike without a helmet, and through a still unclear chain of events and red tape, ended up being placed in a series of American foster homes.
Here’s the kicker: The reason authorities have been hesitant to give Noah back to his mother is because of her history with marijuana activism and a 2003 conviction for growing medical marijuana without a permit.
“As a result,” the Calgary Sun reports, “the court has forced her to undergo psychiatric evaluations, and parenting tests. Most telling of all, the court says she must swear off drugs before Noah can come home.”
This Friday, a judge in Oregon will decide if Noah can go back to his mother. Canadian MP Rob Anders has said he is ready to travel down to the States and bring Noah home, depending on the ruling.
Oregon, which passed medical marijuana through a ballot measure in 1998, recognizes the rights of patients to use medical marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation. From all reports, Lisa Kirkman is a legal patient in Canada—her conviction is for growing her medicine without a permit. So why would they make her “swear off” a medicine recognized by both her native country and the state in which her son is being held? Furthermore, how can a judge deprive a mother custody of her son for being politically active on any issue? It wasn’t like she was exploiting her son by making him wear protest gear, which the last time I checked isn’t illegal in the U.S. either.
Lisa Kirkman is being interviewed on CNN later this afternoon. Hopefully they can bring her back Friday when she gets to experience a long overdue reunion with her son.
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Taken into custody when found riding without a bike helmet, straight a student . Don you amaze me, your a self defeating troll or secretly aligned with cannabis legalization . Either way I love your posts. Keep up the good work . By the way the head of Americas largest teachers union just came out for cannabis legalization. Welcome aboard.
I myself am a medical marijuana user for chronic RSDS and feel it won't be long before it's legal for all to use who is 18 or over in the US. Young children are being treated for varies illness with marijuana right now in some states and now President Obama said that if he gets 1 million texts he will make marijuana legal and not a Federal Offense for all adults. Listen people the 2 worst drugs and their legal is Nicatinia and alcohol and they kill more people than any illegal drugs and car accidents in a year put together. Alcohol has ruined more marriages that has more of a negitive effect on children than anything else. Marijuana for that matter has never killed anyone from overdose and has so many good side effects it will help an aids patient eat or a cancer patient who can't keep anything down because of chemo to stop the nausea so he or she can eat so stop this none sense and reunite this boy to his mother , haven't both of them suffered enough?
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