MARIJUANA PARTY SELLING POT SEEDS TO FUND CAMPAIGN

VANCOUVER (CP) - The Marijuana Party of Canada is selling pot seeds to raise
money.

"We're going to do it to fund the campaign and the movement in general,"
said party leader Marc-Boris St-Maurice, who's running against Prime
Minister Paul Martin in Montreal.

"We're going to be doing this for the remainder of our existence until pot
is legal."

The party buys the seeds in bulk from Canadian suppliers such as Willy Jack
and Sensi Seeds.

Then, it sells packs of 10 at prices ranging from $10 for non-viable
"decorative" seeds through to "thoroughbred, Cannabis Cup-winning" varieties
at $400 a pop.

St-Maurice said the party has sold only five or six packs since the campaign
began.

"It's by no means a gold mine yet, but it will come. It's a very political
action."

A Montreal police officer said Sunday it is unlikely St-Maurice would be
prosecuted for selling seeds.

The Criminal Code prohibits possession of marijuana, as well as growing and
trafficking, but selling seeds seems to fall into a grey area.

"It appears not to be illegal in that people who are doing it are not being
charged for doing it," said Neil Boyd, a professor of criminology at Simon
Fraser University and author of High Society, a book on marijuana in Canada.

Marijuana seeds have so little THC - the psychoactive ingredient - that the
courts might hear an argument that the seeds are not a drug, he said.