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Ottawa pot provocateur Russell Barth couldn’t convince a human rights tribunal to put the heat on Jim Watson over comments the mayor made last year.

Barth, a well-known marijuana rights activist, was upset by a line Watson delivered to reporters on Apr. 29, 2015 during the controversy surrounding Vanier vapour lounge BuzzOn.

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BuzzOn lets people consume their own pot inside the premise if they pay a membership fee. The owner promoted the business as somewhere for people with medical marijuana licences to socialize.

Watson wasn’t a fan of BuzzOn’s arrival on Montreal Road.

“If someone has a medical licence for marijuana, then please go and use that product on your property in your own house, but please don’t bring it in an establishment where other people can be affected by the second-hand smoke,” Watson said to reporters that April day.

Barth, a medial marijuana licence-holder, complained to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario that Watson’s comments were a form of discrimination.