cannabisnews.com: Flin Flon Mine Questions Pot-Growing Future Flin Flon Mine Questions Pot-Growing Future Posted by CN Staff on August 22, 2002 at 14:08:29 PT Viewpoint Source: CBC Flin Flon, Man. - Comments made by federal Health Minister Anne McLellan this week are casting doubt on the future of a government pot-growing operation in northern Manitoba. The federal government is paying Saskatoon-based Prairie Plant Systems to produce 400 kilograms of marijuana every year for the next four years. They're growing the pot in an old mine owned by Hudson's Bay Mining and Smelting in Flin Flon. McLellan says she wants the Supreme Court of Canada to settle legal questions surrounding medicinal pot – and she won't release any of the marijuana being grown for the government until it has been tested in clinical trials. Wayne Fraser, director of the environment for HBM&S, says the head of Prairie Plant Systems plans to expand its operation to other types of plants. "Up until now, Brent Zettle has been concentrating on the contract with the federal government for medicinal marijuana, but there's huge, huge amounts of space in our underground mines – there are some real opportunities for expanding into other types of high-value crops, perhaps more down the pharmaceutical chain or wherever else it may happen," he says. Fraser says that could also include genetically altered crops. "When you get into genetically altered crops, there is concern of course that if you're growing an altered crop in the midst of normal crops some place in the prairies, that you may transfer some characteristic of your specialized crop to an adjacent crop. "By putting in underground, as we do here, and far away from any agricultural areas, you can do work on these kinds of crops without threatening any other agricultural crops that may be in the area. In time, Fraser says the federal marijuana project could be a very small part of Prairie Plant System's operations in the Trout Lake mine. Officials from Prairie Plant Systems could not be reached for comment. Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Published: August 21, 2002Copyright: 2002 CBCWebsite: http://www.cbc.ca/Contact: cbcinput toronto.cbc.caRelated Articles & Web Site:Prairie Planet Systemhttp://www.prairieplant.com/home.htmAnne 'Stalling' on Pothttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13825.shtmlSquabbles Erupt Over Policyhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13824.shtmlHow To Stall On Medicinal Marijuanahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13823.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #5 posted by Dave in Florida on August 23, 2002 at 04:33:38 PT Here's the real reason.. Indevus Pharmaceuticals, based in Lexington, Mass., is developing the drug itself under the name CT-3. Burstein owns patents on ajulemic acid.why pot's not medicine.. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by mayan on August 22, 2002 at 18:10:20 PT Hmmm... NY Times business editor dies in fall(Note - from what I can gather, he had been very critical of Enron): http://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=200208221411000267643_aolns.srcThis is from the link in my first post about Cheney & Rumsfeld:Over the years Eric Olson turned up many clues, real or coincidental. There was, for example, the assassination manual that the CIA declassified in connection with its Guatemala activities. The manual, created in the early 1950s, identified “the contrived accident'' as “the most effective technique'' of secret assassination.“The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface,'' the manual stated. “It was exactly what happened to my father,” said Eric Olson. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by mayan on August 22, 2002 at 16:42:38 PT semi-related... This one is very interesting...SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA:The Real Reason the Government Won't Debate Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Re-legalization: http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by mayan on August 22, 2002 at 16:33:57 PT unrelated... BERKELEY, CA - August 15, 2002. GUNS + BUTTER: The Economics of Politics (GNB), with Kellia Ramares and Bonnie Faulkner, is returning to KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley, CA. on Wednesday, September 11, 2002. The theme of the show will be "Unanswered Questions of 9-11" and will include excerpts from the "Unanswered Questions" press conference held at the National Press Club on June 10, 2002. Since C-Span refused to cover this event, GNB's producers felt it was in the best traditions of KPFA to air a portion of it. http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/ec/b6/200208221034.f3643691.htmlNATIONAL GUARD ARTILLERY UNIT DEPLOYED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES FOR "HOMELAND SECURITY": http://www.globegazette.com/local/ni3.phpAgency Was to Crash Plane on 9/11: http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SEPT_11_PLANE_EXERCISE?SITE=1010WINS&SECTION=HOMEUS Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld Linked to “Murder of CIA Scientist”: http://www.gordonthomas.ie/162.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by ekim on August 22, 2002 at 16:06:11 PT thanks to quad4 for news from CA. Davis Interesting report about medical cannabis http://www3.cosmiverse.com/news/science/0802/science08220205.htmlIncluded in it:'"We believe that [the compound] will replace aspirin and similar drugs in most applications primarily because of a lack of toxic side effects," says Sumner Burstein, Ph.D., lead investigator in the study and a professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. "The indications so far are that it's safe and effective," he added. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment