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Compassion Club to Grow Pot in Homes of Members!
Posted by FoM on June 21, 1999 at 19:31:56 PT
Author: Brock Ketchum
Source: Calgary Herald 
A Calgary club that lost its entire inventory of marijuana intended for use by seriously ill Calgarians will attempt to rebuild its supply by having customers grow the illegal drug in their own homes, says pot crusader Grant Krieger.

People who permit their homes to be used for cultivation will be allowed to keep enough of the harvest for their oven medication while the remainder is sold to other people suffering from debilitating ailments, said Krieger, founder of the Universal Compassion Club.Early in the morning of May 31, thieves broke into a Calgary house where UCC was cultivating marijuana and stole the nearly mature crop, along with some processed pot. Krieger is launching the club this month and had counted on the stash to get things rolling with the 25 medicinal pot members.³Iım putting growing rooms into different sick peoplesı houses right now,² said Krieger, 44, who has multiple sclerosis.Krieger said UCC, which signed up two more members last week, will provide home growers the equipment and horticultural know-how to exercise their green thumbs in the privacy of their homes.The idea is to spread the pot around so itıs not vulnerable to a single raid by thieves or police.Cultivation, possession or trafficking of marijuana is a criminal offence, and Calgary police have said they will not hesitate to enforce the law.³I think itıs truly ingenious,² commented UCC member Mara Czayka, 37, who lives in the Turner Valley area and who drove with Krieger and other Calgary delegates to Grand Forks, B.C. where they attended a conference of compassion clubs.Czayka said Krieger raised the idea of growing the plants in membersı homes while they were enroute to Grand Forks.³I truly support this,² said Czayka, who has fibromyalgia. ³We need to take the stand and have the courage to take this on.²Krieger said delegates from across Western Canada and the United States agreed to organize an umbrella group called Canadian Cannabis Coalition to promote compassion clubs and the legalization of medicinal pot.³Oh, man, you would not believe it,² said Grand Forks grower Paul Dimotoff, the coalitionıs spokesman. ³For the first time in my life, Iıve seen egos turned into energy. Iıve never seen so much compassion. We had grown men blubbering like children.²Krieger said he struck deals with Grand Forks growers to sell pot to UCC.But this - along with its Calgary membersı crops - will be far too little to meet the growing demand, he said. So the coalition is seeking a federal permit to establish a commercial crop in Grand Forks.Meanwhile, Krieger is calling on indoor growers in Calgary who supply the lucrative recreational pot market to set aside a portion of their production for medicinal users. ³We need them to start giving us a hand,² he said. ³Thereıs people dying out there, man.²Last week, Health Minister Allan Rock announced his department will invite bids from companies interested in supplying Canadian-grown marijuana for clinical trials.Guess who is bidding?Good Luck! Hempity!!!
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Comment #4 posted by barbie on April 09, 2001 at 23:25:50 PT:
pot growing operation
please email me with info on how and who i send my bid into to grow my own pot for theraputic purposes..thank you for a quick response
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Comment #3 posted by soon i will have my on March 22, 2001 at 22:43:48 PT:
soon i will have my way
soon i will have my way
sooniwillhavemyway
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Comment #2 posted by jay evon on March 21, 2001 at 16:16:42 PT:
information
looking for the e-mail address of the compassion club in windsor,15 other peaple and myself,are in need of getting some help.
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Comment #1 posted by john smith on March 02, 2001 at 10:07:00 PT:
pot
how do you grow pot???????????
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