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What a Drag
Posted on April 27, 2004
An excellent Op-Ed in the New York Times from Eric Schlosser (author of Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness) on the difference in government polices in Canada and the US regarding marijuana usage and in particular medical marijuana.
On one hand, starting this fall pharmacies in British Columbia will be selling marijuana for medicinal purposes, without a prescription. But south of the boarder penalties for a first marijuana offence range from probation to life without parole. Schlosser writes that 90 percent of the 700,000 people arrested in 2002 were arrested for simple possession.
Criticism is coming from Canada though. Users of medical marijuana accuse the BC government of overpricing and supplying "lousy pot".
"It is of incredibly poor quality," said one patient. Another said, "It tastes like lumber." A spokesman for Health Canada promised the agency would try to offer a better grade of product."
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