Health Canada To Use Almost A Million Joints To Stall On Medical Marijuana For Five Years.

(Marijuananews note: It is interesting that this comes out just after the UK makes a similar announcement. Again, the Internet allows us to see things in a much broader context.)
See
UK To Spend 3 Years And A Million And Half Dollars On Tests
To Find Out If Marijuana Helps MS Patients,
But Will Do No Research To See If Arresting Them Is Harmful.

December 14, 1999
From The National Post
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By Jane Taber, Ottawa Citizen

OTTAWA TO DISTRIBUTE NEARLY 1M MEDICINAL MARIJUANA CIGARETTES

Health Canada is planning to distribute nearly one million marijuana cigarettes over a five-year period to ailing Canadians and medical researchers studying the medicinal value of pot, according to a confidential government document.
(Marijuananews note: Five years of research? Who do they think they are fooling? The people of Canada are way ahead of them, and certainly the patients are -- even more so.)
See
Health Canada To Spend Five Years and Millions
Playing the Research Game Trying Avoid Medical Marijuana
and
78 Percent Of Canadians Favor Medical Marijuana – What Is Rock Waiting On? DEAland?
and
Canada May Begin Testing Medical Marijuana On AIDS Patients By The End Of The Year,
But They Are NOT Waiting On The Government.
and
Scathing Column In Ottawa Citizen Attacks Health Minister’s Rationing Of Medical Marijuana...
And Justice.

The 28-page Statement of Work for the Development of a Comprehensive Operation for the Cultivation and Fabrication of Marijuana in Canada sets out the business framework for a Canadian supplier to the federal government for medical marijuana -- in other words, an official dope dealer. Health Canada will supply the seeds to begin growing and a "Qualified Person In Charge of Narcotic, Controlled and/or Restricted Drug Transactions (QPIC)" would have to be hired. This person would have to be a university graduate in an area such as pharmacology and "be of good character."

"The purpose of this project is to provide for Health Canada a reliable source of affordable, quality, standardized marijuana products to meet the needs of exemption recipients and of researchers in this country and abroad," states the introductory overview of the draft document, written Nov. 30.
See
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.
and
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"

Health Canada, according to the document, "will contribute up to $1.5-million per year for investment in clinical, basic and applied research on marijuana and cannabinoids over a five-year period."
(Marijuananews note: The Canadian dollar is around 67 DEALand cents.)