Petition to Health Canada, please sign

[B. Friendly]

http://www.canadianmedicinalmarijuana.com/?p=312
Health Canada allows medical marijuana access to people who are suffering from grave and debilitating conditions.”Which is great” However after your doctor signs your prescription patients don’t have instant access to their medication like any other prescription. In fact the process can take more than 6 months before patients are legally allowed to possess and consume marijuana. So with your help we would like to change this process and have health Canada issue a temporary license based on the doctors prescription offering people instant relief, not 6 months away.

A 6 Month minimum is far to long for somebody in need. Let's make a difference!

Click the link and help support this issue,
don't forget to click the link you get in your email or your signature will not count...
Gracias

 

[dmt]

nice, d

 

[B. Friendly]

come on canada, lets get some thoughts on the MMAR system and the flaws it has????

MMAR holders would love to hear your thoughts, I have been licensed with Health Canada for 4 years now and it has not been a pleasent experience, things I would love to see reformed...
And you??????

 

[Gm421]

I think for cat 2 needing to see a specialist first is a total waste of time. I have spent more time in doctors waiting rooms in the past 3 months then my whole life combined. It would also be nice if Health Canada would recognize dispensary's and do away with this grey area..

 

[MoeBudz^420]

Tack on the delay for recieving the "whole deal" - the paper docs AND the wallet card - I have had my paper docs for 4 months now and still cardless. (I am 1-2 hrs from Ottawa) The card has now taken longer now than original application did. I know the papers are all that's needed but the card is part of the deal...

I called them yesterday and put a bug in their ear. Hopefully they'll call me back, I know their record, but the fella on the other end did ask me my name, address, and if it was OK to leave a "detailed message" if I'm out at the time.

I said yes - we'll see how much longer it takes. I agree the delays are BS, they need much more efficiency pretty much in everything regarding the program...


Peace

 

[bobthegrower]

the answer is simple.

Bypass HC and do what you want, as long as your doctor agrees that cannabis helps you.No court in the land will convict you with a letter from your doctor.

It's nothing to do with them really.

 

[B. Friendly]

I knew I was not the only one with a beef or two...

Happy to hear it, who else has an issue????

Puff on

 

[B. Friendly]

anymore questioning the system...

 

[amrad]

the answer is simple.

Bypass HC and do what you want, as long as your doctor agrees that cannabis helps you.No court in the land will convict you with a letter from your doctor.

It's nothing to do with them really.

I agree, I will be undergoing hep c treatment soon and I wouldnt even consider jumping through health canada,s friggen hoops. I'll grow my own meds illegally and if I get popped I'll use the long wait and total bullshit that the government puts us through as defence. Might see you in "The Big House bobthegrower". LOL

 

[pho]

Not licensed yet but in the process. Pain specialist says he supports my case after a lifetime of migraines and a couple solid years working with doctors to tame them.

Sitting here with a joint in my mouth and thinking what a fucking joke this journey has been. Spent thousands on meds which will probably make me have a stroke or seizure one day, when the answer is in my mouth right now.

 

[B. Friendly]

I hear ya Pho,
something about that Reefer Madness Generation that can't let it go...

Puff on

 

[CyrilSneer]

the answer is simple.

Bypass HC and do what you want, as long as your doctor agrees that cannabis helps you.No court in the land will convict you with a letter from your doctor.

It's nothing to do with them really.

Well that's where a few folks are getting in trouble, there are several people here in NB alone who were charged, convicted and paid heavy fines for growing/possessing while waiting for their HC papers. One guy was waiting for 5 or 6 months when caught.. the judge said too bad.. the docs permission, signed forms was not enough.
You can goog it.. its happening

 

[CyrilSneer]

I agree, I will be undergoing hep c treatment soon and I wouldnt even consider jumping through health canada,s friggen hoops. I'll grow my own meds illegally and if I get popped I'll use the long wait and total bullshit that the government puts us through as defence. Might see you in "The Big House bobthegrower". LOL

I don't know if I'm allowed to post a link to this news story, but I will C&P parts of it. If anyone wants the link I can PM it I guess. Here goes.

"An Upper Hainesville man who argued he didn't break the law by having marijuana for medical purposes has been found guilty of drug possession and fined.
Chief provincial court Judge Leslie Jackson found Todd Terrence LeClair guilty of a charge of possession of marijuana in a decision issued recently in Woodstock provincial court.
LeClair was charged after police executed a search warrant at his home Oct. 19, 2009. Officers found 215 grams of bud marijuana and 1,300 grams of low-quality pot commonly referred to as "shake."
At the time, LeClair had a medical practitioner's declaration in support of his application under the Marijuana Medical Access Regulations to grow and possession pot for medical reasons.
He didn't receive his official authorization to possession marijuana until Jan. 13, three months after the raid.
LeClair argued that the doctor's declaration in and of itself should be enough to exempt him from prosecution because Health Canada took too long to process his application for an authorization to possess.
Jackson didn't agree.
"LeClair also suggests that the procedure is manifestly unfair as the delays prevent him from having timely access to his 'medicine' pointing out that if (the doctor) had issued a prescription for Dilaudid for his chronic pain instead of marijuana, he would have been able to access his medicine in hours not weeks or months," the judge wrote, noting that the defendant's arguments don't hold up.
"Firstly, despite Mr. LeClair's use of the term 'prescription' to refer to (the doctor's) 'medical practitioner's declaration and signature,' that document is not a prescription. Indeed, no physician can prescribe marijuana as it is a prohibited drug.
"The declaration is a necessary part of an application for an ATP (authorization to possess) but is not on its own a legal authorization to possess marijuana."
Jackson said the slow pace of the application process doesn't make it unfair as long as the wait times are reasonable.
LeClair had also asked the court to declare relevant sections of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act unconstitutional.
Jackson rejected that argument, citing a binding precedent from a higher court.
"In his testimony in this trial, LeClair asserted ... that once he got the signed form, in his words, 'prescription,' from (his doctor) that he believed he was 'good to go' and could possess and grow his own marijuana for medicinal purposes.
"He also said that Health Canada provided him with no instruction on what he should do during the period in which his application for an ATP was being processed," the judge said.
"In my view, LeClair has not shown that he relied on the advice of any official in Health Canada in coming to his belief that (the) 'prescription' was authority for his possession of marijuana, and even if he could, it could not be said that such reliance was reasonable."
Jackson fined LeClair $575 for the offence."


Note that according to 'Judge Jackson' there is a binding precedent from a higher court.


There are other similar stories. Be careful while you wait.