Pubdate: Wed, 04 Jul 2007
Source: Saanich News (CN BC)
Copyright: 2007 Saanich News
Contact:  http://www.saanichnews.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1209
Author: Russell Barth

POT LICENSE EQUALS MEDICAL SEGREGATION

What Canadians fail to recognize is that the medical  marijuana
"licences" we are supposed to carry around  amount to nothing less
than legislated medical  segregation. In Canada!

Think about that.

As federal medical marijuana licence holders, my wife  and I (like Mr.
Wilcox, Oak Bay News, June 6) have to  carry "special papers" to avoid
arrest because we have  a medical condition.

"Legislated medical segregation." Ugly, isn't it? Okay,  so it isn't
apartheid or the Warsaw ghetto, but this is  how stuff like that
starts out: separate us from the  rest of the flock so we are easier
to pick off later.  Worse yet, sick people have to scrounge for this
medicine, then scrounge a mountain of money to fight  their own
government and police for their rights in  court, against a giant with
bottomless pockets.

So much for Canada being a "just society".

RUSSELL BARTH

Federal Medical Marijuana License Holder

Ottawa
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