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Pot Plan a Puff Away!
Posted by FoM on June 09, 1999 at 07:56:08 PT
Rockto Announce Today Will Grow Marijuana!
Source: Toronto Sun
Health Minister Allan Rock is expected to announce today that Health Canada will start its own marijuana plantations.Sources say Rock will reveal today he's in the process of finalizing a business plan to develop a government-controlled pot farm in Canada.
He intends to ensure Canadians who need marijuana for medicinal purposes have a 'made in Canada' brand, the sources say.As well, they said Rock will grant two exemptions under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act permitting two individuals to grow and use marijuana. The government has received more than 30 applications from Canadians wanting permission to legally smoke dope to ease their illness pains.Toronto AIDS sufferer Jim Wakeford is expected to receive one of the exemptions. Wakeford won the legal right to grow and smoke marijuana under a constitutional exemption last month granted by an Ontario Superior Court judge.The ruling criticized the federal government for its slowness in handling applications by dying patients for medicinal marijuana.Rock is expected to reveal details of clinical trials on the medicinal benefits of marijuana and spell out who will qualify to participate in the trials when he tables a status report on the Medicinal Marijuana Research Plan this morning.But while Health Canada prepares its pot fields for planting, sources say government officials will sanction Community Research Initiative of Toronto to go to Mississippi -- where all U.S. government scientific research on marijuana is conducted -- to study its methods.Although the minister wants Canadians in need of dope for health reasons to have their own domestic supply, he wants to be able to use U.S. marijuana until ours is ready for harvest.As well, Rock is expected to announce that Health Canada is negotiating to conduct clinical trials with a British firm that makes a marijuana soup. He wants to determine whether the soup-like drug relieves pain and nausea in the terminally ill. 
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