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Current Affairs 2007 - Medical (61 items)
| May 2, 2007 | The Personal Dope on Medical Marijuana The pot smokers came to a downtown hotel on a recent afternoon to hear the speeches, to meet others and to talk. Who, me? I attended the Cannabis Awareness Forum, not because I am unaware, nor because I inhale, but because I tend to favour legalization.
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| Apr 20, 2007 | Cannabis Awareness Forum Treating Yourself and the Toronto Compassion Centre
Invite you to the Cannabis Awareness Forum
Location: Delta Chelsea Hotel
Mountbatten Salon A
33 Gerrard St. West
Toronto, Ontario
Date: April 20, 2007
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
This is an open invitation to take part in the Cannabis Awareness Forum. Presentations and open-floor discussions will be taking place.
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| Apr 16, 2007 | Medicinal Pot Advocate Pleads For Legalization An emotional Pete Young -- one of three people charged after a drug bust at a so-called medicinal marijuana centre in London -- yesterday called for support as he prepares for his court date on Friday.
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| Apr 16, 2007 | Health Canada Marks Up Medical Marijuana 1,500% [...Records obtained under the Access to Information Act show that Health Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk medical marijuana produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc.
The company has a $10.3-million contract with Health Canada, which expires at the end of September, to grow standardized medical marijuana in an abandoned mine shaft in Flin Flon.
Health Canada, in turn, sells the marijuana to a small group of authorized users for $150 -- plus GST -- for each 30-gram bag of ground-up flowering tops, with a strength of up to 14 per cent THC, the main active ingredient. That works out to $5,000 for each kilogram, or a markup of more than 1,500 per cent...]
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| Apr 11, 2007 | Mary Jane Is Not Just Peter Parker's Best Friend I'm not suggesting that everyone become potheads. And let me be clear, I am of the firm belief that if we all took better care of our bodies and minds via good food, exercise and meditation, the need for a supplemental boost on any level would not be as necessary. But I am not going to lie to you. I do enjoy a nice glass of wine or piece of dark chocolate now and then. So who am I to judge?
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| Apr 5, 2007 | What Have They Been Smoking At Health Canada? ...Health Canada has stated in court that compassion clubs have historically provided a safe source to those with medical need. But on the licence application there is no option to choose compassion clubs as a supply source. Applicants after a high quality legal product are out of luck. Hoops for those in need, loopholes for those in power. ...
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| Mar 31, 2007 | Pot Crusader Upset At Crown There was no joy for medicinal marijuana activist Grant Krieger on Friday when the Crown stayed a trafficking charge dating back to 1999, for which the Supreme Court had granted Krieger a new trial.
"That's disappointing," Krieger said when advised the stay was officially entered by Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice Neil Wittmann at the behest of the federal Crown.
"But that's the way the system works. . . . The only way I can get it fixed is in front of a jury, so the jury can nullify this nonsense.
"They ( the Crown ) know that's what I want to do. They don't want the laws changed."
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| Mar 9, 2007 | Toking Up To Feel Better Not Accepted As The offender's toking finally caught up with him yesterday when members of the National Parole Board rejected his pitch that marijuana helped him chill out and actually cut the chances he might commit more violent assaults.
[A classic case of stupidity and ignorance winning out over common sense. Cannabis reduces rage, and society in general would be more peaceful if we were rid of pot prohibition.] |
| Mar 2, 2007 | Cannabis Studies by Condition Just in the last five years alone, we counted more than 12 studies that reported in the media the possible effectiveness of marijuana in treating such debilitating conditions as:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n269/a02.html?322560
[Not Canadian content, but good outline of recent medical studies] |
| Feb 21, 2007 | Hemp Shop Owner Delays Plan To Open Medicinal Room A Saskatchewan hemp shop owner says he will delay opening a smoking room for medical marijuana users until he knows if it's legal.
Dean Foster, who owns Field of Dreams in Regina, had planned to open what he calls a marijuana "inhalation room" last week and even sent out flyers advertising memberships.
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| Feb 13, 2007 | Giving Up Cannabis Saved Me, Says Margaret Trudeau Quitting cannabis has been an important part of her recovery from mental illness, Margaret Trudeau said Monday at a news conference in Vancouver for the Canadian Mental Health conference.
[How timely for her public announcement that will make it much easier for son Justin's political aspirations. Also a perspective of one academic: She makes an unfortunately common error in terms of her understanding of causality. Maybe the increased cannabis use was a symptom of impending mental crises necessitating hospitalization instead of the cause of that hospitalization.] |
| Jan 30, 2007 | Knock The Law Not The Cops For Making Pot What was James Breau thinking when he decided to run the Mid Island Compassion Club and distribute marijuana without a proper licence? Did he think the police wouldn't find out that he was supplying 85 people with highly priced weed?
Despite the fact that a 2006 Maclean's Magazine poll concluded 93 per cent of Canadians support the legal use of marijuana for medical purposes, it's still illegal to distribute the drug without a licence.
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| Jan 19, 2007 | Pot Grower Dodges Jail Term Growing pot for medical marijuana crusader Grant Krieger won't mean jail for a former Calgary man, a judge ruled yesterday.
Justice Beth Hughes agreed with defence lawyer Adriano Iovinelli that jail time wasn't necessary for Mark James Maki's involvement with the Compassion Club.
"Mr. Maki's motivation for these offences, while certainly against the law and misguided, were to assist the Compassion Club and it's members," Hughes said.
The 577 plants seized in October 2001 and February 2002 had a value of about $600,000 to $800,000, and a loaded sawed-off shotgun was found in Maki's home.
Maki, 43, of Coquitlam, B.C., pleaded guilty to two charges of cultivating marijuana and one of careless storage of a firearm.
Hughes placed him in on house arrest for a year, followed by a curfew for another 12 months.
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| Jan 13, 2007 | Epileptic Seizure In Public Eye The first time Christine Lowe saw herself convulsing during an epileptic seizure, she pawed at the television screen, fixated on the image of herself losing complete control of her body.
Now she wants to share the video with a massive Internet audience.
Life, death situation
Lowe's husband, Russell Barth, posted the video on YouTube yesterday morning, hoping to give people a real taste of what epilepsy patients go through.
The Ottawa couple, who are also vocal marijuana activists, were disturbed by other videos on YouTube poking fun at seizures.
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| Jan 12, 2007 | Government Created A System Benefitting The Worst One Percent The disturbing trend by RCMP to arrest and detain people for marijuana possession, trafficking and usage is irresponsible in this day and age.
After numerous commissions, hundreds of thousands of hours of governmental time consumed studying marijuana, the consensus in Canada remains that marijuana should not be illegal and the denial of this most natural and basic medicine is extreme to the point of undue hardship.
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| Jan 5, 2007 | PUB LTE: Tumor Story A Nice Touch The busting of Mark Russell and the Mid-Island Compassion Club reminds me of Charles Dickens' apt quote: "The law is an ass."
At the same time, it draws attention to a community-need. ....
As a nurse, I cannot say enough about the professionalism of these organizations and the tremendous service they provide to the community. It's a fact: they reduce their patients' use of our over-burdened health-care system, and that's something to think about.
Also, I wouldn't put my professional reputation on the line unless I wholeheartedly supported such a venture.
So let's get with the program, people!
Liz Stonard
Coombs
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| Jan 5, 2007 | PUB LTE: Compassion Raid a Waste of Time
The recent raid on Mark Russell's Mid-Island Compassion Club stands as a perfect example of the idiocy that our gutless politicians are forcing upon the police, Mark Russell and at least 85 local people in need of medicinal marijuana.
What possible good arises from such an expenditure of valuable police time, charging Russell for aiding ill people and driving his clients to purchase their pain relief from various sources in the black market?
Courtenay RCMP Constable Derek Kryzanowzki admits that the investigation took over a year to complete, that it wasn't instigated by a complaint from the general public and was self-generated through one of the members in the drug section.
....A wish for year 2007 -- may our local police force bravely continue to dodge bullets -- but at the same time cease to make the biker gangs richer. W.L.M. Wilson Qualicum Beach
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| Jan 5, 2007 | Compassion Club Weed Out Their Concerns With Raid Members of the Mid-Island Compassion Club will be gathering for a special meeting on Sunday to discuss the latest developments within their group.
Those developments, says club chair Mark Russell, are significant.
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| Jan 5, 2007 | Cannabis Activist Speaks Out on Raid and Booze Local marijuana activist Mik Mann is worried a recent police raid of a Coombs compassion club means bad news for those who legally grow and consume the herb.
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| Jan 5, 2007 | Trial Date Set For Pot Grower AMHERST - A trial date has finally been set for a Maccan man who claims he was growing marijuana to help himself and 300 others with medical conditions, but it will still be months before Rick Simpson faces a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge and jury.
In Supreme Court on Thursday, Mr. Simpson's two-week trial was slated to begin Sept. 10, 25 months after police raided his property and allegedly seized more than 1,200 marijuana plants. Mr. Simpson also launched a challenge under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It was heard just before Christmas, but the court banned reporting both the evidence and its decision until the jury hearing Mr. Simpson's case begins deliberating.
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