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  Get Ready To Dispense Pot, Pharmacists Told
Posted by FoM on July 12, 2001 at 10:44:49 PT
By Pamela Fayerman, Vancouver Sun  
Source: Vancouver Sun  

medical Pharmacists across Canada should be preparing to dispense medicinal marijuana, learning what information to give users about proper doses, side effects and potential interactions, a pharmacist at the B.C. Cancer Agency is advising professional colleagues.

Robin O'Brien, who also teaches pharmacy students at the University of B.C., said she's not necessarily an advocate of medicinal marijuana, just a pragmatist who believes that since the federal government is now sanctioning marijuana use for certain ill people, it should hand over the dispensing duties to professionals who can give patients "expert counselling."

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Comment #3 posted by jorma nash on July 12, 2001 at 13:34:03 PT
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"All the touted benefits of marijuana are purely anecdotal at this point and we intend to spend five years researching it. So it's not a therapeutic product yet," she said.

and, rest assured when that five years of research
comes to all the politically incorrect conclusions,
(like every other five year study in the past fifty years)
we will study it again, and again,
until we finally come to the correct conclusions.

in the meantime, of course, it is highly therapeutic
to drag sick people to prison to die,
for daring to decide what to put into thier own bodies.

"study it long enough and hopefully the issue will go away"
still lingers in the United States of Undeclared Martial Law,
but i don't think its going to fly too much longer in Canada.



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Comment #2 posted by FoM on July 12, 2001 at 11:59:24 PT
Jack
Hi Jack, Is the phone number your number? I just wanted to make sure. Thanks, FoM

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Comment #1 posted by jack(301)779-9256 on July 12, 2001 at 11:09:53 PT
O'Brians hopes already fulfilled
In the story above is the following passage:

"O'Brien said she hopes pharmaceutical companies can
come up with a medicinal form of marijuana that doesn't
have to be smoked to prevent users from the tar and risk
of lung cancer."

Perhaps O'Brien never heard of Brownies??
Perhaps instead of "pharmaceutical" companies
we need bakery companies?


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