Pubdate: Sun, 27 Apr 2003
Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2003 The Calgary Sun
Contact:  http://www.fyicalgary.com/calsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67
Author: Robert Merkin
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk

NOT ONE SINGLE APPETITE-STIMULATING PUFF

Only a government could spend $5,750,000 to grow marijuana and fail. ("Pot 
may be uprooted," April 21.) It undertook the project to fulfil a promise 
to provide marijuana to the ill, chief among them cancer chemo and AIDS 
patients. And this has yet to happen -- not one single appetite-stimulating 
puff for one single wasting patient, no matter how excruciating and 
life-threatening his or her medical condition. May I offer my services? I 
can fail to honour a humanitarian, merciful promise far more cheaply. For a 
mere $1 million, I will not provide marijuana to desperately ill and 
suffering Canadians.

Robert Merkin

(A bargain by comparison.) 
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MAP posted-by: Beth