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Current Affairs 2005 - Medical (74 items)
| Feb 9, 2005 | CN NK: Defence in N.B. pot trial seizes on Ottawa's slow response to medical need New Brunswick - Ottawa's slow and cautious response to requests for medicinal marijuana has become an issue for the defence in a New Brunswick drug trafficking trial.
[This significant case deals directly with the inadequacies of the government program.] |
| Feb 6, 2005 | Europe: Spain to Test Cannabis As Aid for Patients Spain's socialist government has given the go-ahead for the most wide-ranging trial of therapeutic cannabis ever conducted, putting the country at the forefront of drug policy. Four hospitals, 60 pharmacies and up to 1,500 patients in Catalunya will take part in a year-long pilot programme sponsored by the regional government to establish the drug's effectiveness in treating a range of conditions.
[They must have realized watching the Canadian program was a waste of time] |
| Feb 4, 2005 | Alcohol as harmful as smoking, study warns LONDON - Alcohol causes almost as many deaths and disabilities worldwide as smoking or high-blood pressure, a study warns....despite evidence that alcohol causes as much harm as tobacco and high blood-pressure, public-policy decisions are governed all too often by political instead of health concerns...
[If it weren't so, then cannabis would be legal] |
| Feb 2, 2005 | CN BC: Wheels Fall Off Media Strategy Deals were made with Saturday Night, the Economist, and the Globe and Mail... The Vancouver Sun was also offered a deal which allowed it to publish... if its story was substantially different....the Sun said it couldn't withhold the story from ... the National Post, the Globe's direct competitor.
[Business and the business of politics are a drug for some, that can be more harmful to society than crystal meth ] |
| Feb 1, 2005 | Corporate Cannabis Will a New Marijuana Mist Become the Aspirin of the Twenty-First Century?
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| Jan 26, 2005 | CN BC: Hey, What Are They Smoking? Ted Smith's marijuana conviction hasn't slowed the flow at the Cannabis Buyers' Club. The Johnson Street storefront is still open to the 1,400 or so people who say they need marijuana for medical purposes.
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| Jan 22, 2005 | CN BC: Pot Inc. Big Businesses Have Sprung Up Around the Fuzzy Legal Boundaries of Marijuana Cultivation in Canada. Are Some Crossing The Line?.... the government is supplying roughly 1,000 people with marijuana...compassion clubs... are illegally supplying nearly 10,000
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| Jan 21, 2005 | CN BC: Medical-marijuana Activist Convicted Of Trafficking Ted Smith...a medical marijuana activist who lit up several joints at a pro-marijuana rally ..was found guilty of trafficking Thursday and now faces a maximum of five years in jail.
[Disturbing trend - second person convicted of trafficking for just passing a joint] |
| Jan 19, 2005 | Product Information Sheet on Dried Marihuana Office of Cannabis Medical Access: The manufacturing process involves milling of the plant material in order to
produce a homogeneous marihuana product...To ensure dried marihuana microbiological safety, the product has been
irradiated by gamma irradiation to reduce to undetectable levels, using
well-established methodologies, potentially harmful bacteria and microbial
load which may cause spoilage. Irradiation ensures that people using the
marihuana and who may have compromised immune systems, are not exposed to
toxic spores which occur naturally in plants.
Product Information Sheet on spp.) [PDF]
Product Information Sheet on Marihuana (Cannabis spp.) Seeds [PDF]
[There is concern about this product and process. See Canadians For Safe Access Flin Flon section] |
| Jan 16, 2005 | CN BC; Cannabis Crusade - A House Divided On the face of it, Phillippe Lucas, and Ted Smith, share common cause. Why, then, do they barely talk to each other?
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| Jan 8, 2005 | CN BC: Pot User Laments Loss Of 'Medicinal' Source Brian Carlisle, who was the victim of a home invasion in Chilliwack in September, had been growing his pot at local marijuana advocate Tim Felger's Bradner Road property since the fall. On Thursday morning, Abbotsford Police converged on the well-known property and arrested two men.
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| Jan 8, 2005 | CN BC: Medical Pot Advocate Guilty Of Trafficking Medical Pot Advocate Guilty Of Trafficking The charge against Smith arises from a March 21, 2002 search of the club's Johnson Street offices. Police seized marijuana, cookies, massage oils and salves. The cookies, oils and salves were tested by Health Canada and shown to include cannabis resin, a prohibited substance. He was handed a nine-month conditional discharge.
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| Jan 6, 2005 | CN BC: Champion Of Medical Weed Gets One Of Two Counts Dropped Ted Smith, Victoria's self-appointed champion for people who use marijuana as medicine, was back in court Wednesday.But in this new trial, prosecutor Michael Lawless rose at the start to say the Crown was staying one charge of trafficking in marijuana. But the Crown is still pressing ahead with a second charge, that is possession of cannabis resin, a different substance according to the law.
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| Jan 5, 2005 | CN BC: Medical Marijuana User Finds A Grower To Keep Him Supplied A local man who says he needs medical marijuana to stay alive has found a grower, thanks to the Capital News.
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