Pubdate: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB) Copyright: 2008 Canoe Limited Partnership. Contact: http://www.edmontonsun.com Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08.n978.a05.html Author: Russell Barth Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk. SICK PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE TO SUE FOR THEIR BASIC RIGHTS Regarding your story "Feds' bid for control of pot up in smoke," Oct. 28: this ruling is unlikely to stop Health Canada from making things difficult for medical pot users. They have repeatedly ignored or refused to comply with previous rulings, and because of underfunding and understaffing at Health Canada offices, people have to wait months for paperwork to be cleared for such things as grow permits or address changes. The arbitrary and discriminatory rules they have now (plant and storage limits not least of them) keep many sick people from getting the medicine they need, and leave many sick people to go months without. I have little optimism that this ruling will change much of anything. Sick people will have to continue to sue for their basic rights. Russell Barth (They should decriminalize pot, and reap a host of benefits.) - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake