Pubdate: Fri, 14 Oct 2016
Source: Toronto Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2016 The Toronto Star
Contact:  http://www.thestar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/456
Author: Mark Conlin
Page: 14

POT DISPENSARIES NEEDED, WANTED

Re Pot store optics, ethics questionable, Sept. 16

I'm a medical marijuana patient and I believe that I'm being
discriminated against.

The reason we're seeing so many dispensaries opening is because
patients - your neighbours, friends, family members, coworkers - want
them.

The system as it stands is wrong. Everyone from top to bottom knows
that medical cannabis patients have chosen to disregard the hypocrisy
of a system set up to support corporate investment, not patient need
or accessibility.

Dispensaries, while varied in their respective individual operations,
are evolving into professional, modern clinics.

Many provide patients access to medical professionals, either online
or on-site.

In the absence of regulations, dispensaries - as an industry - have
raised and continue to raise the bar in terms of providing the
professional services and medicine that we, as patients and Canadian
citizens, have the right to expect.

Mark Conlin, West Kelowna, B.C.
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MAP posted-by: Matt