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More Legal Cannabis Users
Pubdate: Mon, 10 Jan 2005
Source: Kelowna Capital News (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005, West Partners Publishing Ltd.
Contact: http://www.kelownacapnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1294
Author: Russell Barth
MEDICAL MARIJUANA: MORE LEGAL CANNABIS USERS NEED SUPPLIERS
To the editor:
Re: Medical Marijuana User Finds A Grower to Keep Him Supplied, Jan. 5
Capital News.
I am thrilled that Richard Babcock was finally able to find a grower. This
story is good news, but it illustrates a much bigger problem of government
inaction and mismanagement.
If Health Canada would just comply with the many court orders that they
have brazenly ignored so far, then life would be much easier for people
like Mr. Babcock and myself.
About 8,000 Canadians get their organic, multiple-strain,
multiple-delivery-option, medical-grade marijuana from compassion clubs
across the country, all at no expense to the taxpayers.
Meanwhile, Health Canada supplies their single-strain, gamma-irradiated,
chemically-contaminated, mulch-pot to only 93 of the 753 Canadians
currently licensed to possess cannabis.
The program has already cost millions, and is a complete failure.
Russell Barth,
Ottawa
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