Pubdate: Sun, 08 Nov 2009
Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB)
Copyright: 2009 Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://www.edmontonsun.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135
Author: Ethan Erkiletian
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n988/a01.html
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA ALREADY PAID FOR

Re: "Feds demand users prepay for their pot," Nov. 1.

I have to say, I'm absolutely disgusted at this move from Health 
Canada. It has been demanding payment for something that has already 
been paid for. Health Canada has tendered the contract to grow 
cannabis and has paid out millions of dollars for acquiring its 
supply of medical marijuana. Taxpayers have already paid in full for 
this medication. Demanding that ill and infirm patients pay -- for 
what has been called an inadequate product -- on top of what 
Canadians have already paid, is as insulting as it is disgusting.

Ethan Erkiletian

(More money going up in smoke.)
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