Pubdate: Fri, 10 Aug 2007
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
Copyright: 2007 Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.edmontonsun.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135
Author: Derek Telasco
Note: Title by MAP. Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor.

I APPLAUD HEALTH CANADA

I applaud Health Canada for seeing the value in Sativex for pain
management and approving it for use in Canada. What I find to be very
strange, though, is that cannabis remains illegal. Sativex is an
extract from cannabis. So this would be like making it legal to buy
coffee from Tim Hortons but sending you to jail if you brewed your
own. Could someone please explain the logic of this? Is cannabis only
useful if a drug company makes a fortune from it?

Derek Telasco

(Your first mistake? Don't ever try to figure out the feds.)
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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake