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Posted by FoM on July 17, 2001 at 09:43:36 PT By Dan Palmer, Edmonton Sun Source: Edmonton Sun 
A local group which wants to provide medicinal marijuana illegally will start work this week - because it's convinced its dope is more potent than whatever Ottawa's offering, says a board member. "Their pot is going to be such a low grade, people will have to go to us," said Michael Cust, 21, a board member of the Edmonton Compassion Network. The network plans to sell marijuana from lower mainland B.C. to Edmontonians who need a safe and reliable supply to relieve the pain or symptoms of a medical condition, he said. The dope will be sold at about $8.50 a gram, cheaper than the $15-a-gram street price, Cust said. The CEO and president of the Saskatoon-based Prairie Plant Systems, selected by Health Canada to grow marijuana for medicinal purposes, questions how anyone can know for sure how potent their pot is before it's tested. "Which lab is measuring their stuff?" said Brent Zettc, 39. Munir Ahmad, 23, director and co-founder of the network, said he knows by reputation the THC - the active substance in marijuana - will be high in the B.C. bud. "That's by word of mouth," he said, pointing out that most suppliers want to provide a high-quality product. The 5-6% THC content that Health Canada wants in its first dope crop is too low, since users will have to smoke more joints than necessary to see the benefits, he said. Zettc said his group won't know how much THC is in the crop until it's harvested and tested this fall. Ahmad said he will begin taking applications this week from people who want the marijuana. "If I have to go to jail, I will," he said. "But I think the judge will be sympathetic." Ahmad cited the recent courtroom victory of medical pot crusader Grant Krieger. Last month, a Calgary court ruled Krieger was justified in breaking the law by selling grass to chronically ill people. City police spokesman Dean Parthenis said cops won't treat the local compassion club any different from anyone else they catch selling marijuana. "If they're found buying or selling, they're going to be charged," he said. Alberta Solicitor General Heather Forsyth said the province will have no choice but to enforce the Criminal Code. Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB) Related Articles & Web Site: Canadian Links Canadians To Get Licenses To Smoke Pot Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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Comment #7 posted by Steven Tuck on July 19, 2001 at 00:53:10 PT:
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| Everybody always is saying how cannabis is going to be 1 or 2 dollars a gram after med regs go into place have been watching to much TV. Cannabis is very hard to grow(if you want truly fine cannabis or hash) if quality is to be assured(remember a company can be held liable and to much higher standards of accountability than dealers) and ISO 2000 standards are enacted. In the few places were fine cannabis is quasi-legal it seems that @$2400 a lb. is the going rate for quality. It's analogous to the wine industry and it's very hard to big batch, even running a cannabis center in Humboldt for 4 years I have only saw a handful of people grow all the medicine they needed for entire year or any variety. Plus if your starting chemo next week you better have some magic jack in the bean stalk oil or else you are SOL. For 50 cents a gram you can get some mexican and if thats what you want to pay then thats what you deserve. Wino's are not issued Don Peron and never will be, it takes too much time and effort and investment to produce and I seem to notice also that all the naysayers also have little of the above qualities also or they would have done got up and done something for somebody other than themselves. I was alsone on Humboldt Courthouse steps on MayDay this year and HOW MANY FOLKS MAKE THEIR LIVING OFF POT IN HUMBOLDT???????? How long are potheads going to rely on the sick and dying to carry this movement because we sure need some help NOW. Steve Tuck,MS [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #6 posted by testor on July 17, 2001 at 21:02:08 PT |
| I agree they do the work here. Im also from Canada. I cant see these new regs even coming close to what sick people need. I believe all laws will be struck down. And they should be. Just a few more days and will find out. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #5 posted by Binky on July 17, 2001 at 18:40:31 PT:
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| I believe the regulations our Health Minister and his department have drummed up fall short of the Supreme court rulings in Ontario and I think Alberta. The Courts gave the Minister 1 year to streamline the regulations and to make the process of applying for a sec.56 a little less cubersome. What I've read into the new reg's is the process will be bogged down in miles of paperwork both for your Doctor and the applicant. Second of all where is our Fed. Gov going to get its supply by the noted deadline? At the stroke of midnight on July 30/01 I could almost garantee that someone will file suit against the Fed's new reg's complaining that it takes twice as long and the paperwork to envolving or if the Fed's don't have a legal supply I'm still forced to buy off the black market or something simular. The walls are crumbling, the truth shall prevail. It seems our Canadian Judges are doing the work Parliament was created to do.
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| Comment #4 posted by TroutMask on July 17, 2001 at 11:13:34 PT |
| "Ahmad cited the recent courtroom victory of medical pot crusader Grant Krieger. Last month, a Calgary court ruled Krieger was justified in breaking the law by selling grass to chronically ill people." If this is so, doesn't that set precedent? And if it does set precedent, isn't it likely that any arrest of these sellers will meet with the result (aquittal)? If these wonderful people start selling to sick people and win in court, it is all over, imho. Once a "medical defense" is allowed for dealers (as it already has been once), rules governing medical marijuana in Canada might as well be tossed out the window. -TM [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #3 posted by S.M.Ash on July 17, 2001 at 10:43:05 PT |
| If the truth were to be known, the price should be only the cost of seeds, & water to grow your own. I personally think that is what the government is afraid of. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #2 posted by kaptinemo on July 17, 2001 at 10:32:09 PT:
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| "Ahmad cited the recent courtroom victory of medical pot crusader Grant Krieger. Last month, a Calgary court ruled Krieger was justified in breaking the law by selling grass to chronically ill people. City police spokesman Dean Parthenis said cops won't treat the local compassion club any different from anyone else they catch selling marijuana. "If they're found buying or selling, they're going to be charged," he said." You can dress 'em up in fancy uniforms, you can even try to take them out into the public eye...but you still can't break them of the habit of dragging their knuckles on the ground. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #1 posted by jack(301)779-9256 on July 17, 2001 at 10:00:15 PT |
| Nice idea but the price should be 50 cents ( US ) per gram. Thats all its really worth if it were not for the drug war induced price distortions [ Post Comment ] |
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