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Cannabis Caravans Give Permission To Smoke
Posted by CN Staff on June 03, 2010 at 11:47:05 PT
By Matt Volz, Associated Press
Source: Star-Tribune
Helena, Mont. -- As Bob Marley music wailed in the next room, the makeshift clinic hummed along like an assembly line: Patients went in to see a doctor, paid $150 and walked out with permission to buy and smoke medical marijuana.So it went, all day, at a hotel just blocks from the state Capitol that was the latest stop of the so-called cannabis caravan, a band of doctors and medical marijuana advocates roaming Montana to sign up thousands of patients.
"You're helping end suffering on this planet for human beings," clinic organizer Jason Christ said as he sat outside the hotel in an RV filled with pot smoke.To the dismay of state medical authorities and lawmakers, the caravans have helped the number of pot cardholders in Montana swell over the past year from about 3,000 to 15,000.Christ's group, Montana Caregivers Network, will take the caravan out of Montana later this month for the first time, with clinics scheduled in three Michigan cities: Detroit, Kalamazoo and Lansing. He said pot advocates from several other states — including New Mexico, New Jersey and Hawaii — have contacted him to inquire about setting up similar businesses.The state medical board is trying to curtail the mass screenings and recently fined a physician who participated in a similar clinic in the first disciplinary action taken against a doctor in a Montana medical marijuana case. The board found that the doctor had seen about 150 people in 14 1/2 hours, or roughly a patient every six minutes, nowhere near enough to provide appropriate care in the eyes of medical observers.The board also recently reminded physicians that they must perform thorough examinations, take medical histories, discuss alternative treatments and monitor patients' response to the cannabis — standards that typically apply when prescribing other medication."Be on the alert. You are still held to these same standards," said Jean Branscum, the board's executive director.Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune (MN) Author: Matt Volz, Associated PressPublished: June 3, 2010Copyright: 2010 Star Tribune Contact: opinion startribune.com Website: http://www.startribune.com/URL: http://drugsense.org/url/Y0Qf1qaaCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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Comment #8 posted by afterburner on June 09, 2010 at 07:41:52 PT
'What do we and all the other patients do now?'
COMPASSION CLUB REALLY HELPED.
Tue, 08 Jun 2010.
Montreal Gazette (CN QU)
http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v10/n431/a04.html?176
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Last fall my 63-year-old husband was taking Interferon, a strong chemotherapy drug. ... His doctor wrote him a referral to the Montreal Compassion Club in St. Laurent. This enterprise has provided my husband with high-quality standardized marijuana at a reasonable price.
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Comment #7 posted by Hope on June 04, 2010 at 04:08:15 PT
They know that's an outright lie.
"Patients went in to see a doctor, paid $150 and walked out with permission to buy and smoke medical marijuana."Oh Canada! You're a wicked Queen, too. Absolutely cruel and wickedly evil.The sheer stupidity of prohibitionist fervor to keep people from using the plant, cannabis, is mind boggling.It looks like the prohibitionists are determined to make people fight back and they will eventually, if they keep it up. Why? A non poisonous plant that is beneficial to so many people? A plant that helps people? A plant that makes them feel better? A plant that relieves pain and misery. Why?Attacking peace loving people over and over again? What's the point? I shudder to think.Prohibitionists are breeding rebellion, revolution, war, and hatred, over a person's decision, their freedom, to use an herb. It's insane. 
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Comment #6 posted by The GCW on June 03, 2010 at 23:03:28 PT
No "prescribing"
Since federal law does not allow it, doctors are not "prescribing" the plant. So "standards that typically apply when prescribing other medication," don't apply.A doctor may not be held to the same standard when they simply recommend something rather than prescribe something.
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Comment #5 posted by afterburner on June 03, 2010 at 21:21:38 PT
No compassion as marijuana raids continue
Friday, June 4, 2010.
No compassion as marijuana raids continue.
Montreal the latest compassion centre to be raided as police aid organized crime and force sick people to seek illegal outlets for their medicine.
By Kirk Tousaw
http://www.thebulletin.ca/cbulletin/content.jsp?ctid=1000136&cnid=1002471
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Comment #4 posted by afterburner on June 03, 2010 at 21:07:25 PT
Montreal cops target compassion clubs 4
Montreal cops target compassion clubs in pot bust 4
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“If there are arrests in Vancouver in two weeks, we will be sure (that it’s part of a national effort),” St-Maurice said. “I don’t think (Prime Minister) Stephen Harper is a big fan of marijuana for any use.”
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Comment #3 posted by afterburner on June 03, 2010 at 21:06:29 PT
Montreal cops target compassion clubs 3
Montreal cops target compassion clubs in pot bust 3
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Last month, police raided a compassion club in Toronto. Now, St-Maurice says, all of Quebec’s compassion clubs appear to have been shut down.“This is not just the local police, you know, checking in (on) their municipality — this is a targeted effort,” he said in an interview after being released from custody.“That tells me that there’s some sort of organized move from higher up.”
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Comment #2 posted by afterburner on June 03, 2010 at 21:04:39 PT
Montreal cops target compassion clubs 2
Montreal cops target compassion clubs in pot bust 2
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Former Marijuana party leader Marc-Boris St-Maurice was among those scooped up Thursday.He sees the strike as the latest evidence of an aggressive anti-pot push that starts at the federal level with the Conservative government.
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Comment #1 posted by afterburner on June 03, 2010 at 21:03:11 PT
Montreal cops target compassion clubs 1
Montreal cops target compassion clubs in pot bust 1Police target 35 suspects at pot clubs, including federal Marijuana party founder.
June 03, 2010.
By Andy Blatchford and Peter Rakobowchuk. 
2 hours ago
http://news.therecord.com/News/article/722298
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MONTREAL — Police launched a major marijuana crackdown in Quebec on Thursday, arresting 35 people in raids on cannabis clubs including the founder of the federal Marijuana party.Officers hit five clubs — better known as compassion clubs — in Montreal and Quebec City.
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