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Current Affairs 2005 - Medical (74 items)
| Apr 26, 2005 | Krieger Taking Cannabis Crusade To Supreme Court Calgary pot crusader Grant Krieger, challenging his conviction for possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, is taking the case to the Supreme Court of Canada.
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| Apr 26, 2005 | Pot Charge Pains Mom A Kemptville woman who smokes five grams of pot a day for pain relief says she's facing a charge of growing the drug because of a simple misunderstanding. But Health Canada and police say the rules are clear: A licence to possess medical marijuana isn't permission to set up your own grow op. Licenced users need to apply for a special permit to grow their own.
[Smothering legal pot use with red tape and bureaucracy ensures most people will stay outside the system] |
| Apr 22, 2005 | Compassion Club Takes High Road Mark Russell doesn't think sick people should have to hang out in bars or back alleys in order to get their medication.
He doesn't think they should have to deal with the criminal element in order to do so, either.
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| Apr 21, 2005 | Some MDs Recommending Marijuana For Medical Use As federal lawmakers prepare to pass legislation decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use, Montreal's McGill University Health Centre has issued a study concluding some doctors already are suggesting their patients use cannabis for a variety of medical purposes
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| Apr 20, 2005 | Legalizing Pot Is His Number-one Priority Neil Magnuson wants Surrey residents to have access to safe medication, namely marijuana, which is reportedly useful for some maladies including glaucoma and treatment for nausea related to chemotherapy.
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| Apr 19, 2005 | Health Canada Approves Sativex Canada becomes the first country in the world to approve Sativex,
a novel prescription pharmaceutical product derived from components
of the cannabis plant shown to have therapeutic properties.
Sativex is administered via a spray into the mouth."
[GW Pharma's attempt to medicalize this herb is now lurching closer to biopiracy, but in the spirit of openness and hoping this may add to the treatment options for many medical cannabis users, the VICS is publicly offering for the very first time, our Cannamist/tincture recipe - including how to convert the THCA into more usable THC.VICS Cannamist/Tincture Recipe ] |
| Apr 16, 2005 | Up In Smoke A Sick Guelph Man Fears The Future After Police Confiscate His Crop Of What He Argues Is Legal Marijuana, Prescribed To Ease His Many Ailments.
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| Apr 8, 2005 | Marijuana-joint Sharing Linked To Spread Of Potentially The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is warning people not to share marijuana joints because the practice is resulting in the spread of meningococcal disease, which is potentially fatal.
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| Apr 1, 2005 | CN NS: Man Wants Company To Help Him Pay For Pot So as part of his claim for special damages, Mr. Patriquen wants the defendants to pay for the costs of growing his own marijuana for medical use, as authorized under a Health Canada permit.
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| Mar 26, 2005 | Headaches Fuel Revival Of Hallucinogenic Medicine Doctors Look At Magic Mushrooms And LSD As Possible Cures For A 'Terrible Affliction,'
{Finally, some real advancements in the forbidden areas of medicine] |
| Mar 25, 2005 | Returning Pot Activist To US A Death Sentence he wife of medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby told Federal Court Justice Sandra Simpson that returning her husband to the U.S. to serve a prison term would be a death sentence.
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| Mar 21, 2005 | American Woman Awaits Extradition Decision Nightmares about abuse in prison and separation from her son have plagued Renee Boje for more than four years as she awaits a decision on her extradition to the United States.
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| Mar 12, 2005 | Marijuana Is Dangerous, Now and in the Future RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli retracted his statement that the Mayerthorpe tragedy was about marijuana, but the sad reality is that he may have been right the first time.
[They can do all the studies they want, but compared to any pharmaceutical drug, it can never be proved that cannabis is harnful enough to be banned ] |
| Mar 11, 2005 | US Gets High, And Blames Canada WASHINGTON - The number of American teenagers and adults ending up in emergency wards or seeking treatment because of marijuana use has soared in recent years and seems linked to the "dramatically" growing influx of high-test Canadian pot, the White House drug czar said Thursday. The elevated THC content -- the active ingredient in pot -- of that Canadian marijuana means it can no longer be considered a soft drug, argued Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
[Not to mention they are given a choice between treatment or jail, and less than 2% of their pot comes from Canada and is too expensive for most consumers, so duh... they tried to float this one in Vancouver and both mayer Campbell and ex-mayor Owen dismissed it as propaganda - lets hope the nation can keep that perspective] |
| Mar 3, 2005 | BC Supreme Court Wants More Proof Before Ruling on Validity of Pot Laws VANCOUVER -- Have the laws against marijuana fallen? That was the
question before the BC Supreme Court today... the judge declined to give a Constitutional exemption from
Canada’s unworkable medical cannabis access system without more proof
that her rights had been violated.
[ A very significant case winding it's way to the Supreme Court] |
| Feb 24, 2005 | Tax Relief Goes To Pot OTTAWA - Canadians will get tax relief to buy marijuana, gold and jewellery and for world travel under yesterday's proposed federal budget.
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| Feb 21, 2005 | CN NK: Pot café owner found guilty of trafficking SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The owner of the Cannabis Café in Saint John has been found guilty of drug trafficking, after a judge rejected the defence that she was running a compassion club.
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| Feb 20, 2005 | CN BC: Medical User Needs Help! After years of struggle, Denny was finally granted his license just last week. He is only awaiting the official paperwork to come through. While Denny was in hospital, these gestapo agents proceeded to search Denny's home. Of course they found his grow room. Denny was between crops, and didn't have even so much as a clone. Yet Sgt. Stadenco and his Keystone cops, proceeded to tear down the room and seize all the gear.
[This is how the police treat our sick family members] |
| Feb 9, 2005 | Health Canada suspends the market authorization of ADDERALL XR® Health Canada has suspended the market authorization of the product due to safety information concerning the association of sudden deaths, heart-related deaths, and strokes in children and adults taking usual recommended doses of ADDERALL and ADDERALL XR.
[How many deaths from cannabis after thousands of years of use? NONE. But it is banned. Where's the logic, science or any other justification?
UPDATE: August 24, 2005:
Health Canada allows Adderall XR® back on the Canadian market Who can protect us against Health Canada?
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| Feb 9, 2005 | CN BC: It's No Fix, But It's The Best We Can Do For Addicts "I would bet any amount of money the U.S. has exerted extreme pressure on Canada to abort this trial," Alex Wodak, a prominent Australian addictions researcher, has said. He should know: U.S. opposition helped to abort a heroin trial in his country. It is to Ottawa's credit that Canada has resisted similar pressure from the Bush administration, whose addictions policies owe more to narrow moralism than to science, compassion or insight.
[Canada promised to crack down harder on cannabis users in return for no interference into the heroin trial?
Another example (like the war in Iraq), where we are more in tune with our European ancestors than our Commonwealth cousins.] |
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