Marijuana hunger-striker Istvan Marton dies ...
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:26 pm
Thanks going out to MJ Tallon for sharing this sad news story via Facebook:
Read the full article here: http://www.montrealgazette.com/touch/st ... id=5746489montrealgazette.com wrote:VICTORIA — A B.C. senior who was on a hunger strike to protest Canada's marijuana laws has died of heart failure.
Istvan Marton was 69.
His doctor, Jane Clelland, confirmed that Marton, of the small coastal village of Sointula, died Sunday in hospital in Port McNeill, B.C. He had been refusing to eat for more than a month.