Was Windsor pot activist Leo Lucier the “head of a sophisticated criminal operation” or a compassionate Windsorite selling cannabis to those suffering pain while also raising funds to help the poor in his community?
Those were the two sides presented by the prosecution and the defence to an Ontario Court judge who must now determine a fitting sentence after Lucier, 51, was found guilty of setting up a business that illegally, and openly, sold the mind-altering weed.
As a result of Lucier entering a guilty plea in August, the federal prosecutor on Friday asked the judge to withdraw the same Cannabis Act charges that had been laid against four co-accused.
The other four were arrested during a police raid on Nov. 2, 2018, at Compassion House, located in a small Tecumseh Rd. strip mall west of Ouellette Ave. Lucier, who was absent when the
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