Well, that was an interesting week. I finally have standing to appear before a judge, so my charter challenge is now on much more solid legal ground. I was detained completely unlawfully under the Mental Health Act, causing me to miss my Charter Challenge and a meeting with the RCMP which ended with them seizing all my electronic devices and a small supply of flowering medical grade organic marijuana I've cultivated this past year. This essentially destroyed a strain selection process done for personal medical use that took a long time to establish. I have a medical reason to use marijuana, as does my 'partner', but it's difficult to obtain a prescription and we're currently completely without access to an acceptable substitute as most alternatives available are poorly grown using inorganic methods or are simply unsuitable for the medical benefits sought. I'll have both a rights violation and public interest standing, which defeats the current arguments put forward by the respondent for the Attorney General's of Newfoundland and Labrador as well as Canada. Stephen Harper also has a peace bond against me. Interesting times we live in. I'll be posting the whole story of what happened the day they pulled me in as an update to my petition. Names will be withheld to protect the privacy and identities of those involved as much as possible. The next post will cover some of what happened during my stay on the 4th Floor of the Western Memorial Regional Hospital. I won't bring the names of any patients, doctors or nurses into that one either. I showed nothing but respect to everyone I saw during this whole process and received nothing but the same back. Including no medication. Not even a Tylenol, although I never once had so much as a headache. I was however, deprived of my usual methods for treating my obstructive sleep apnea, so I'm still recovering from a week of restless sleep that's left me a little foggy and disoriented about the whole thing. I will say this: I can say nothing bad about the doctor's and nurses and patients. Even the cleaning staff were exceptionally pleasant people. But they're operating severely understaffed and underfunded and we've basically handed over the mental health of our people to pharmaceutical companies. This needs to be remedied.