A local business owner has had her drug-related charges dismissed.
RCMP charged Gillian Sampson, the owner-operator of Antigonish Medical Solutions, after officers raided her Post Rd. business in March, and again in June.
At the time, Sampson, 30, said officers seized all patients’ legal, licensed products from their personal mailboxes in her building- without warrants for the individual mailboxes- during the raid.
She said her business was not a dispensary and did not sell cannabis or cannabis products; instead, it provided patients with access to doctors willing to prescribe cannabis, as well as a safe storage mailbox system.
Sampson filed a Charter application of her March charges; a judge found there was a Charter breach, and her charges were dismissed when the Crown had no evidence to submit Thursday.
She’s still scheduled for an election-and-plea hearing on her June charges Feb. 26.
Sampson previously pleaded not guilty to three offences- trafficking, possession for the purpose of trafficking and possession of property obtained by proceeds of crime- while she owned the former Tasty Budd’s franchise in Antigonish following her arrest in Aug. 2017; she launched a constitutional challenge, and the Crown withdrew those charges in February.
Tasty Budd’s reps pleaded guilty to a trafficking charge, and were fined $50,000.
