Pubdate: Fri, 22 Nov 2002
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2002, Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.fyiottawa.com/ottsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
Author: Joseph Leger
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk

MEDICAL MARIJUANA PROGRAM IS A FLAT-OUT LIE

Canadians who want exemptions under Canada's Medical Marijuana Access 
Regulations (MMAR), cannot find doctors to support their applications. 
Canadian doctors have refused to support MMAR applications after provincial 
colleges of physicians and surgeons across the country told doctors not to 
sign the required forms.

When doctors inquire at the college, they are told they cannot fill the 
required forms anymore. The whole Canadian government medical marijuana 
program is nothing more than a flat-out lie, set up just to keep the courts 
from striking down the marijuana prohibition laws.

When Terry Parker won a landmark ruling to be the fist Canadian to be 
allowed to smoke marijuana, the judge gave the government one year to 
change the laws or they would strike them down.

Joseph Leger.

Toronto

(In that case, we guess the ball is back in the court's ... err ... court)
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