Pubdate: Fri, 29 Jan 2016
Source: Kelowna Capital News (CN BC)
Copyright: 2016, West Partners Publishing Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.kelownacapnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1294
Author: Mark Conlin
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n053/a01.html

LISTEN TO MEDICAL POT PATIENTS

To the editor:

Re: Legal limbo on marijuana laws, Our View Jan. 27 Kelowna Capital News.

This recent editorial demonstrated both common sense observations 
while still showing some lack of understanding this issue. The fact 
that police enforcement of current marijuana prohibition is 
problematic, goes without saying. Still, the illogical rationale that 
the laws on the books should be enforced-until they're inevitably 
changed-seems to be alive and well. Is it any wonder, then, that 
cannabis advocates are anxious for this election promise to be kept?

Unfortunately, the characterization of compassion clubs and 
dispensaries as being "opportunists" is not accurate, at all. 
Compassion clubs and dispensaries have been, and remain, in the 
forefront of the legalization effort.

Prior to the ill-thought Harper government system of mail order 
medicinal marijuana distribution, the federal committee was told, by 
patients, that their preferred method of acquiring cannabis was 
through compassion clubs and dispensaries. Overwhelmingly so.

You wonder why dispensaries are flourishing? That's why.

That's, also, the reason that any distribution system that ignores 
the patients and dispensaries will fail-it's that simple. Politicians 
better start listening.

Mark Conlin,

West Kelowna
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