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Current Affairs 2008 - Medical (76 items)
| Apr 15, 2008 | Who'll Grow the Weed, Man? OTTAWA -- Health Canada is looking for someone to grow its weed.
The department served notice yesterday it will soon invite firms to bid on a contract to cultivate and distribute medical marijuana, which Prairie Plant Systems Inc. of Flin Flon, Man., is now doing
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| Apr 14, 2008 | Medical Pot Users On Hook For $500,000 OTTAWA -- Medical marijuana users are on the hook for more than $500,000 in unpaid bills for government-certified weed, raising questions about the effectiveness of Health Canada's troubled dope program
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| Mar 28, 2008 | Abstinence Not The Only Way Off Drugs An alternative to abstinence is gaining acceptance among people working with those who struggle with drug addiction. ..For example, a client may come to detox to stop smoking crack cocaine, but intends on smoking marijuana when he gets out because a gradual detox approach is what makes sense to them.
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| Mar 28, 2008 | Coping With The Pain "Who is it harming? Where is the victim?" asks Cheryl MacLellan, co-owner of Hemp Country. "If there is no victim, there ought not to be a crime."
Those comments may be surprising coming from MacLellan who is a former Children's Aid Society child protection worker and a former police officer in the detective's office with the Oxford Community Police Service.
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| Mar 22, 2008 | Marijuana Prescriptions Getting Lost in Smoke Since the current incarnation of Canada's medical marijuana program was established, doctors have been forced by Health Canada to act as sentinels for a product whose complexities, methods of delivery and side effects they have little firsthand information.
It's a situation that leaves many physicians hesitant to sign their names to the documents required for patients to access government pot.
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| Mar 18, 2008 | MDs Increase Dosage Of Medical Marijuana Canadian doctors have been increasing daily dosages of marijuana for patients using cannabis for medical purposes, Health Canada reports.
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| Mar 18, 2008 | NS: Simpson's Sentenced To Time Deemed Served AMHERST - Rickey Logan Simpson has twice been convicted of drug charges and has twice been a free man the same day as his sentencing.
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| Mar 6, 2008 | Sweet Leaf Relief A small yet passionate group of Calgarians is working diligently to provide medicinal marijuana to ease the suffering of those struck with debilitating illnesses such as multiple sclerosis, cancer and chronic pain.
Founded in the fall of 2002, the Calgary Medicinal Marijuana Centre ( CMMC ) is a not-for-profit co-operative that aims to provide its members with a reliable supply of marijuana through a network of authorized growers, to act as a support group and to educate people on the oft-vilified plant's effects on a variety of illnesses.
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| Feb 29, 2008 | NS: Marijuana Guilty Plea Delayed By Lawyer's Schedule AMHERST - Ricky Logan Simpson, the Maccan-area man who says he has found the cure for cancer in a marijuana oil he produces, is expected to plead guilty to his latest drug-trafficking charge - but not for another couple of weeks.
Mr. Simpson, 58, was expected to enter a plea to the charge in provincial court Thursday, but he appeared without his lawyer, Duncan Beveridge, who couldn't make the trip to Amherst because he was preparing for a Supreme Court jury trial in Halifax.
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| Feb 25, 2008 | Pot Smoking Patient Learns Patience Two years ago, Olga Eredics finally gave in to her doctor's suggestion to try medical marijuana after a bout with multiple sclerosis left her in a wheelchair in 2002.
Although she still deals with tremendous pain every day, Eredics is able to walk and exercise with the help of cannabis.
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| Feb 21, 2008 | Government Policy Keeps Couple Apart When MUN student Kirsten Joy moved in with her boyfriend Mike Dawe, she thought it would be forever.
But a year down the line, a government policy forced her to pack her bags and move across town, when she got a letter warning that she was not allowed to receive two forms of income support at once.
Joy receives a full student loan and Dawe collects government aid because he has a rare and debilitating genetic disorder called Marfan Syndrome, which affects his body's joints, connective tissues, and heart. ..."I really don't consider a student loan a form of income because it is something that I have to pay back," said Joy.
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| Feb 20, 2008 | BC Marijuana Smoker Wins Human-rights Ruling The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that a window contractor discriminated against an employee because his physical disability allowed him to smoke medical marijuana.
The company has been told to pay $500 for injury to the man's dignity, feelings and self-respect.
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| Feb 14, 2008 | SN: Jury Returns Verdict In Massive Grow-Op Case Drawing comparisons to Christ, the self-described head chief of Turtle Island says he's being persecuted for making "medicine" at the request of the Creator after a jury convicted him and two disciples of growing marijuana.
"I'm a messenger. That's all. If they want to kill the messenger, they can go right ahead. They did it before with Jesus," an unrepentant Lawrence Hubert Agecoutay, who turned 52 on Christmas, said after the jury returned its verdict late Wednesday afternoon.
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| Feb 14, 2008 | Using Pot To Ease MS Symptoms May Slow Mental Acuity Some people with multiple sclerosis have turned to street marijuana in a bid to ease pain and other symptoms of the disabling neurological disorder, but new research suggests smoking pot may further harm already vulnerable cognitive abilities.
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| Feb 12, 2008 | Pot Growers Question Validity Of Warrants A lawyer for a marijuana-legalization advocate known as Daweedking is one step closer to what may become a legal first in Canada -- requiring police to provide proof that informants they use to obtain search warrants are reliable.
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| Feb 11, 2008 | ON: Pot Smoker Fights Bar Ban A man who uses "medical marijuana" [sic] to deal with pain from a neck injury he suffered in Mississauga nearly two decades ago is appealing to the Ontario Human Rights Commission for the right to smoke up in front of a Burlington sports bar he frequents. .."He wants me outside his bar by 100 feet. I just want to be treated like every other ( tobacco ) smoker," whom he says are often within 10 feet of the bar's front doors.
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| Feb 9, 2008 | NS: He's 'A Healer, Not A Dealer' AMHERST - A Maccan-area man who insists he has found the cure for cancer says he is leaving Canada for an unnamed country where he can live without fear of persecution or prosecution for taking and producing medicinal marijuana.
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| Feb 9, 2008 | Elaborate Grow-Op Defence One To Remember Agecoutay as much as argues he can grow whatever he wants. He claims to be chief and spiritual leader of his own sovereign nation. As such, he makes his own laws on his own territory. Among his legislative initiatives, for example, is the sale over the Internet of memberships in his First Nation for $10,500. The fee is justified by Agecoutay's claim that members are exempt from Canadian taxes. Three of his co-accused are tax deniers from out of province who met Agecoutay through his website. The other two are Agecoutay's brothers, all three residing on the reserve. Apparently there is some jurisdictional overlap between the Pasqua First Nation and Agecoutay's First Nation.
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| Feb 6, 2008 | ON: Rights body grants hearing to joint smoker An Ontario man who was told he was not allowed to smoke medical marijuana outside a local sports bar has been granted a hearing at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, one of the first cases of its kind in Canadian history.
Steve Gibson, a father of two, is claiming he was discriminated against because of his disability after he was barred from Gator Ted's Tap and Grill in Burlington, Ont., in May, 2005, for smoking marijuana by the restaurant's front door.
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| Jan 31, 2008 | Carousel Harvest Appeal [PDF] The Crown is appealing the ruling that allows medical cannabis growers to grow for more than one patient. For more background, see:
Ottawa Loses Marijuana Fight
Federal Court strikes down regulation limiting growers of medical marijuana
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