Patient's medical marijuana juice to dry up under new law

[OZ Stoners]

A lawyer from Abbotsford, B.C., was in Federal Court Tuesday morning seeking a last-minute reprieve for medical marijuana users who say they need to be able to grow their own pot at home.

 

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Patients are being told they will have to destroy their own plants before April 1 and start buying their medicine from newly licensed medical marijuana businesses.

 

and thats gunna happen here if they legalize it ...  thats my bet..

 

peace

[Ford Fairlane]

Fuxking shit fuckers

[DoctorWho]

Patients are being told they will have to destroy their own plants before April 1 and start buying their medicine from newly licensed medical marijuana businesses.

 

and thats gunna happen here if they legalize it ...  thats my bet..

 

peace

Same.  It's all going to be about protecting corporate interests but will be sold under the guise of health and safety

 

In all fairness though there is an extremely simple solution to this conundrum, force the government to socialise every aspect and run it as a non-profit.  Home growers can never realistically hope to out price large producers and they sure as shit can't ensure the same levels of standardization and safety.  People should be allowed to grow at home but you'd go mental if your other prescribed drugs came in random or surprise dosages and actual government medicinal cannabis should be treated no differently to any other drug in that respect.  I honestly doubt the need for any kind of home grown market provided limits aren't placed on available cannabinoids or their total content as every single cannabinoid is already been bred true into a line of seeds sitting at GW pharma making it childs play to send individual batches of extracts to pharmacies all around the world.  By using local chemists you could make up customised prescriptions on site fully tailored to the needs of individuals.  You could live for 10 lifetimes and never get anything remotely close to that level of perfection working on your own.  When you consider the current need for cannabis based medicines it really is the only sensible option to take BUT only if the profits are taken out of it.  With the scale of production we couldn't even come close to remotely competing at home so that would make it cheaper, easier, safer and better for the planet to buy it over growing it yourself.  If you want to do everything you can to reduce all criminality around narcotics which is mandated by the UN convention on narcotics you can either do that and make people not want to grow their own medicine at all OR you can jack the price up, restrict supply, criminalize your competition while being assured of 100% of the crop being purchased using taxpayer funds.  Capitalism won't allow for the first option to be a reality which is what the Canadians are finding out now.  The only way to avoid the same fate elsewhere is to mandate that profit cannot be made from the medicinal side at all before they can even get a toe through our door and start lobbying our politicians.  Full legalisation or decriminalisation to achieve the same goal while easier is political suicide for now so although its the right thing it can't be expected until society witnesses the world not crumbling around them from legal medicinal access and eventually recreational access too as it is quickly following the medicinal scene.  Once things cool down and people are still getting raided society will see the laws as only protecting business interests, how bad the laws have been all along, etc. and will finally call for an end to the drug war against individuals.  It's going to take forever but we'll get there eventually

Edited March 19, 2014 by DoctorWho