Legal cannabis users want refund

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OTTAWA, Canada (AP) -- Some of the first patients to smoke Canada's government-approved marijuana say it is "disgusting" and they want their money back.

Health Canada, the federal health department, started selling marijuana in July to bring relief to patients suffering from AIDS, cancer and other diseases. The move followed a court order that patients should not be forced to get their marijuana from drug dealers on the streets.

But some of the first to buy the government's marijuana say it is no good.

"It's totally unsuitable for human consumption," said Jim Wakeford, 58, an AIDS patient in Gibsons, British Columbia.

Wakeford and Barrie Dalley, a 52-year-old Toronto man who uses marijuana to combat the nausea associated with AIDS, are returning their 1-ounce (30-gram) bags, and Dalley is demanding his money back -- about C$150 ($110) plus taxes. Wakeford is returning his unpaid bill for two bags with a written complaint.

The marijuana is being grown for Health Canada deep underground in a vacant mine section in Flin Flon, Manitoba, by Prairie Plant Systems on a contract worth about C$5.75 million ($4.2 million).

Ten patients have registered with Health Canada to buy marijuana directly from the government to alleviate their medical symptoms. Another 39 applications are pending.

No patients have complained directly to Health Canada so far, spokeswoman Krista Apse said, and the department will not accept returns or provide refunds.

Meanwhile, Vancouver inaugurated North America's first government-authorized drug-injection site Monday. The controversial government-funded project will give users injection kits and allow them to shoot up under nurse supervision.

Drug users sometimes use dirty needles and water from puddles to shoot up. Now, addicts wanting to use the new facility will be ushered into a brightly lit room lined on one side by open, mirrored booths where they can inject drugs.

After finishing, they will be taken to a "chill-out room," where they can receive counseling and peer referrals.

[Sue Bitch]

crazy i guess the gov doesnt know anything about growing it :sick:

[sNyx]

I read that off mybc.com its pretty funny. Apparently the weed they were suppose to grow/sell is 10.3+ thc content but the dope they were supplying medical users was under 3.5 thc. lol, they said: "it wouldnt hold a candle on street dope" haha..

plus I read they are growing it in some sorta mine caves or some shit.. fucked man :284:

[yourlilbaby]

B.C. provincial court decriminalizes possession of marijuana


Canadian Press


Tuesday, September 16, 2003
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A B.C. provincial court decriminalized possession of marijuana Monday.

In a ruling, the court said "there is no offence known to law at this time for simple possession of marijuana." The decision follows similar rulings in Ontario, P.E.I. and Nova Scotia. It relies on an July 2000 decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal in which the judge declared the law prohibiting simple possession to be constitutionally invalid because it did not have an exemption for medical use.

The defendant was an epileptic who said he needed cannabis to control life-threatening seizures.

Parliament was given one year to deal with the legal loophole and it came up with the Medical Marijuana Access Regulations.

But the Ontario and B.C. courts have said that wasn't enough, noting the regulations don't have the force of law and can be amended without debate.

As a result, the law prohibiting possession was held to have been stricken from the books by the ruling in the Ontario case.