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Liberals Out To Hire Marijuana Merchant
Posted by FoM on May 06, 2000 at 20:29:56 PT
By Mark Kennedy, The Ottawa Citizen
Source: Ottawa Citizen
Attention all marijuana growers: Allan Rock wants your supply. Yesterday, the federal government released the terms of a five-year contract it plans to give a Canadian supplier of marijuana by summer. 
Whoever gets the tendered contract will have to provide high-quality dope, and security will be tight. Also, anyone who has run afoul of drug laws in the past 15 years won't be permitted to hold a key job in the project. The marijuana will be used for clinical research trials to gather scientific evidence on whether it's safe and effective for patients to smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes. Mr. Rock's Health Department isn't yet convinced of the merits of those claims. While it has granted exemptions to 37 sick people so they can smoke marijuana without fear of criminal prosecution, it doesn't want to issue a blanket exemption until the scientific proof is clear. After he announced plans last year to proceed with clinical trials, it became clear that Mr. Rock preferred a domestic marijuana supplier for the project, instead of having to rely on government-sanctioned growers in the U.S. A confidential government document leaked last December, which laid out the business framework for the project, revealed that Health Canada plans to distribute nearly one million marijuana cigarettes over the five-year trials to ailing Canadians and researchers. The request for proposals released yesterday outlines strict regulations the successful bidder must follow: -The contractor will have to "produce a reliable source of affordable, quality, standardized marijuana products." -The contractor will have to grow, process and store the marijuana plants, as well as manufacture the marijuana cigarettes and distribute them to "recipients authorized by Health Canada." -For the purposes of security clearance, "the project manager, KEY personnel, and qualified person in charge" must not have any record since 1985 of any offences against a whole host of drug laws -- either in Canada or in any other country in which they lived after they turned 18. -The first stocks of marijuana must be ready within one year of the contract being issued. Bidders must respond by June 6. Published: May 6, 2000Copyright 2000 Ottawa Citizen Related Articles & Web Site:Health Canadahttp://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ MJ Growers Sought, Experienced Need Not Apply http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread5621.shtmlCannabisNews Articles On Health Canada:http://alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/search?type=all&query=cannabisnews+Health+Canada 
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