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Medical Marijuana Access program is an embarrassing oxymoron
By Hempology | October 8, 2007
Mirror, QU
04 Oct 2007
Chris Barry
MED POT’S SLOW ACCESS
As the Montreal Compassion Centre gets ready to celebrate the official opening of their new digs on 72 Rachel E. this Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m., relations between the benevolent marijuana distribution organization and the bureaucrats running Health Canada’s Medical Marijuana Access program remain as stilted as ever.
“Sadly,” says Montreal Compassion Centre president Marc-Boris St-Maurice, “Health Canada’s program is not the product of social demand and medical necessity but a court-ordered directive, which they honour less than enthusiastically. Communicating with their office is cumbersome and, most times, futile. A simple phone call can take a week before it’s answered-if it’s answered at all. There are major delays processing things like applications and licence renewals. I mean, 18 months ago, we requested a supply of application forms that we still haven’t received.”
St-Maurice also cites frequent, “disturbing” reports of doctors being pressured by Health Canada to reduce their patients’ recommended daily dosage of the sweet, healin’ herb.
“The federal government’s Medical Marijuana Access program is an embarrassing oxymoron,” fumes St-Maurice. “We believe the time to acknowledge and legitimize our contribution to the Canadian health system is long overdue.”
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