Canadian Health Minister
Issues Call To All Pot Growers To Send Him Their Resumes.
In The Meantime, He Is Going To Try To Get Marijuana From DEAland.
Maybe He Will Have Better Luck Than Our Own Researchers.
Two AIDS Patients Get Exemptions.
(Marijuananews note: It will be interesting to
see if more research on medical marijuana using Mississippi marijuana is done in Canada
than in DEAland. Of course, that would not be saying much.)
See
Government Health
Officials Deny Marijuana and Pain Study, Again -- NORML Press ReleaseGRITS
SPARK POT LUCK PLANS
(Marijuananews note: If anyone can figure out what this headline
means please tell me.)
See
Ottawa Citizen
Practices First Class Journalism
A Brilliantly Insightful Editorial: "Marijuana isn’t just a serious issue.
It’s huge."
June 10, 1999
From The Ottawa Sun
editor@sunpub.com
http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaSun/
http://www.canoe.ca/Chat/home.html
By Anne Dawson
Feds To Test Weed Effects
OTTAWA—
Health Minister Allan Rock issued a call yesterday to all pot
growers to send him their resumes.
Rock officially launched a program to begin clinical trials to test the effect of
smoking marijuana and called for pot entrepreneurs to put together a business plan
spelling out how they would grow the weed for government use.
"We’re going to be putting the job out to tender to find somebody who can
grow us a reliable, consistent quality (marijuana product) for research purposes,"
Rock announced yesterday.
See
News Release From
Health Canada
On Research Plan for the Use of Marijuana for Medicinal Purposes.
and
In Canada Only the
Government Has Difficulty Getting Marijuana.
However, "Canadians who want to take part in a clinical trial
will find application forms on Health Canada’s Web Site"
"Once we do that, we’ll go out to tender and we’ll receive bids. I hope
that by the fall we’ll have somebody that we can identify as a source."
Rock announced several months ago his department was developing guidelines for trials
that could lead to the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes.
He insisted this move in no way signals the legalization of pot for general use.
Rock also gave the OK for two Canadians to grow and smoke dope
for their own medicinal purposes and said his department will deal with some 30 other
applicants as quickly as possible.
Toronto AIDS sufferer Jim Wakeford and Ottawa epilepsy victim Jean Charles Pariseau are
both exempted under the Controlled Substance Act, allowing them to cultivate and smoke
their own pot.
(Marijuananews note: It is puzzling that this order did not include
Terry Parker who, like Wakeford, has a court ordered exemption from the law.)
See
The Lancet reports on the Terry Parker
case."Canadian Judge Allows Marijuana as Therapy"
and
Canada Health Minister
Won’t Challenge Medical Marijuana Ruling:
"We’re going to start making marijuana available to people for medical purposes
by the end of June"
and
Canadian
Police March AIDS Patient, Wife and Child from House With Hands Over Their Heads;
Destroy Medical Marijuana Plants
Pariseau, 31, was elated with the news, saying his debilitating
disease leaves him with little appetite or energy.
Marijuana increases his appetite and keeps up his strength, he said.
"I’m going to be able to eat with my family all the time ... get munchies and
smoke my dope and take my pills," Pariseau said.
"I don’t think anybody can take 51 pills a day and not smoke dope."
Rock also intends to seek help from the University of Mississippi, where marijuana is
grown for U.S. government research, to help with Canadian research.
As well, the government is negotiating with a British firm to conduct research on its
liquid marijuana which is breathed in through an inhaler.
Copyright: 1999, Canoe Limited Partnership.
See
Tests Of Medical
Marijuana On MS Patients In UK Will Begin Within Two Weeks.
Canada Looks At UK "Inhaler"<
Supported