Pubdate: Sun, 31 Aug 2003
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
Copyright: 2003, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.fyiedmonton.com/htdocs/edmsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135
Author: J. Stempien
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1294/a05.html?1170
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk

NO MEDICINAL PURPOSE

RE: "FEDERAL pot gets not-so-high marks," Aug. 27. Jari Dvorak, an 
HIV-positive infected man, gets pot from the federal government, and then 
proceeds to have a party to "test" the marijuana. I hope that Health 
Minister Anne McLellan gets a copy of this article so that she can see what 
"medicinal" purposes this product is being used for. Perhaps if Dvorak has 
nausea he should try a stomach remedy. It would be a lot cheaper for the 
government and for our health care to fund part of the cost of anti-nausea 
medicine than to fund this man's parties.

J. Stempien

(The story said nothing about what the other partygoers were doing while 
Dvorak tested his pot.)
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom