Pot will also be sold to people not expected to live more than a year.
Why, to make people feel less depressed? Already plenty of anti depressants in the market. Full article:
Canada will start selling cheap marijuana to seriously ill people seeking relief from pain, becoming the first country in the world to supply so-called medical marijuana directly to patients.
Acting under court pressure, Health Canada, the federal health department, said on Wednesday that 1650 pouches of marijuana were already packed and ready for sale to patients suffering from pain or nausea as the result of disease, cancer, AIDS and other serious sickness. Pot will also be sold to people not expected to live more than a year.
Supplies should begin moving by next week, and the marijuana grown under government contract will be more reliably potent than anything sold on the street.
"It's a splendid product, with a THC content of 10 per cent," Cindy Cripps-Prawak, director of the federal office of Cannabis Medical Access, said.
Tetrahydrocannabinol is the psychoactive chemical in pot; police say street marijuana has THC levels of 3 to 16per cent.
Health Canada also said it would provide marijuana seeds to "authorised persons" wanting to grow their own so long as the purpose was medicinal.
Officials said 582 ill individuals had already been approved for the program, although tens of thousands are expected to apply for the government marijuana, grown beneath artificial light in hydroponic vats.
Canada officially created its medical marijuana program in 2001, but the scheme quickly became bogged down in bureaucratic delays. In January an Ontario court gave Ottawa six months to start dispensing pot, ruling that federal drug laws made "seriously ill, vulnerable people deal with the underworld to get medicine".
The Government is appealing against the ruling.
The Health Minister, Anne McClellan, a skeptic of medical maijuana use, said that the government would conduct its own clinical trials of marijuana to gauge possible benefits.
Canadian medical organisations oppose the government program because of the lack of clinical trials.
"There is no scientific proof of either the effectiveness or safety [of marijuana] for short- or long-term use," said Dana Hanson, president of the Canadian Medical Association.
Wednesday's announcement comes six weeks after the Federal Government introduced a bill decriminalising possession of small amounts of marijuana and only days after it approved a trial safe injecting room in Vancouver for intravenous drug users.
The government price for medical marijuana will be $C5 ($5.50) a gram - less than half the average street price.
Sale of medical marijuana will be limited to people with chronic or catastrophic illnesses, including cancer, HIV or AIDS, arthritis and multiple sclerosis, or mystery ailments that cause serious pain or nausea but cannot be readily diagnosed.
Patients will be urged to eat or drink it rather than smoke it. Doctors and specialists must authorise patients to obtain marijuana.
While I'm not in favor of government provided health care, it's nice to see at least one country that's managed to unknot its panties over marijuana enough to let Goddamn cancer patients use it to alleviate chemo symptoms.
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RedImperator wrote:While I'm not in favor of government provided health care, it's nice to see at least one country that's managed to unknot its panties over marijuana enough to let Goddamn cancer patients use it to alleviate chemo symptoms.
Don't be so quick, the Government is appealing against the ruling.
RedImperator wrote:While I'm not in favor of government provided health care, it's nice to see at least one country that's managed to unknot its panties over marijuana enough to let Goddamn cancer patients use it to alleviate chemo symptoms.
Don't be so quick, the Government is appealing against the ruling.
Lunacy. It's perfectly legal to drink yourself to death, but marijuana is so dangerous that AIDS, glaucoma, and cancer patients can't be allowed to use it.
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BoredShirtless wrote:Why, to make people feel less depressed? Already plenty of anti depressants in the market.
Anti-depressants only work if you're depressed, they don't make you happy if you aren't. Marijuana does so, encourages an appetite, helps with glaucoma eye pressure...
FUCK THOSE ANTI-PLEASURE BASTARDS!
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Praise be unto the lord! Now if only I could somehow convince the medical people that my chronic (8 years now) neck injury and pain qualifies as a "mystery ailments that cause serious pain or nausea but cannot be readily diagnosed" I'll be all set. Can you say "Hash Brownies"? I knew you could!
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Say, do you want it to be a threesome with your wife? Or a foursome with your wife and sister-in-law? I'm up for either.
RedImperator wrote:While I'm not in favor of government provided health care, it's nice to see at least one country that's managed to unknot its panties over marijuana enough to let Goddamn cancer patients use it to alleviate chemo symptoms.
Don't be so quick, the Government is appealing against the ruling.
Lunacy. It's perfectly legal to drink yourself to death, but marijuana is so dangerous that AIDS, glaucoma, and cancer patients can't be allowed to use it.
Marijuana may interfere with a patients treatment RedImperator. That's why the government is appealing, it wants to conduct clinical trials to find out.
BoredShirtless wrote:Marijuana may interfere with a patients treatment RedImperator. That's why the government is appealing, it wants to conduct clinical trials to find out.
Well if that's the case, they may have a point (so long as the tests aren't rigged). I'll continue to rant and rave about American drug policy in the meantime.
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BoredShirtless wrote:Marijuana may interfere with a patients treatment RedImperator. That's why the government is appealing, it wants to conduct clinical trials to find out.
How so? Do you have a link?
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I'm not interested in narcotics, and smoking a drug just doesn't interest me at all, but if people wanna smoke (or eat) marijuana, then good on them. we know well enough that it doesn't destroy society, it's all bloody propoganda against the drugs stemming from depression-era prejudices towards mexican workers in the south who were willing to work for cheap and thus put americans out of work when we needed it most. stupid cult-ish anti-drug culture sprang up around it and took on a life of its own, spawning and feeding on fear.
BoredShirtless wrote:Marijuana may interfere with a patients treatment RedImperator. That's why the government is appealing, it wants to conduct clinical trials to find out.
How so? Do you have a link?
The first post in this thread. Is this a trick question?
reading this again, its almost deja vu is cause i was reading Contact last night and they were talking about canada or california selling various strains of marijuana to france, etc.
Though their [cannabinoid's, of which THC is one] action is still imperfectly understood, a 1998 research paper suggests that they help you "feel less pain, control your movement, relax, eat, forget, sleep and protect" yourself against stress. In fact, some scientists think they're an important part of the body's general stress-recovery system.
And...
Though research is incomplete, it appears that (a) smoking marijuana is the best means of administering THC
Sale of medical marijuana will be limited to people with chronic or
catastrophic illnesses, including cancer, HIV or AIDS, arthritis and multiple
sclerosis, or mystery ailments that cause serious pain or nausea but
cannot be readily diagnosed.
Why do I suspect that Canadians will suddenly be struck down by
mysterious debilitating pains that can't be explained but easilly cured by the
administration of marijuana?
kojikun wrote:reading this again, its almost deja vu is cause i was reading Contact last night and they were talking about canada or california selling various strains of marijuana to france, etc.
Sagan smoked Pot. He was a very successful man that the anti-Drug asshats really don't want you to know about.
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kojikun wrote:reading this again, its almost deja vu is cause i was reading Contact last night and they were talking about canada or california selling various strains of marijuana to france, etc.
Sagan smoked Pot. He was a very successful man that the anti-Drug asshats really don't want you to know about.
He didn't just smoke it, he and his wife were major legalization proponents. Shh...don't tell the proles that. They're supposed to think one puff of demon weed will make you into a crazed junkie.
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Vorlon1701 wrote:
Sagan smoked Pot. He was a very successful man that the anti-Drug asshats really don't want you to know about.
He didn't just smoke it, he and his wife were major legalization proponents. Shh...don't tell the proles that. They're supposed to think one puff of demon weed will make you into a crazed junkie.
I wonder how surprised everyone would be if they found out how many people really smoked this "demon weed?"
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Vorlon1701 wrote:
Sagan smoked Pot. He was a very successful man that the anti-Drug asshats really don't want you to know about.
He didn't just smoke it, he and his wife were major legalization proponents. Shh...don't tell the proles that. They're supposed to think one puff of demon weed will make you into a crazed junkie.
I wonder how surprised everyone would be if they found out how many people really smoked this "demon weed?"
I wouldn't be surprised at all--especially if a number of them turned out to be the same dipshits in Washington today beating their chests about how many years "junkies" ought to go to jail for one puff of giggle grass.
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