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Prince of Pot: The Big Decrim Scam! Prince of Pot with Pot-TV
Running Time:	14 min
Date Entered:	14 May 2003
Viewer Rating:	8.98 (18 votes)
Number of Views:	2666
Marc Gives Canadian Cannabis Activists Their call to duty, with the current Federal Cannabis Legislation Back-stab and the sell-out of Canadian Cannabis culture to the Bush regime, it is time now more than ever for our collective voices to be heard! Plus news-clips and House of Commons footage of Svend Robinson and Ann McLellan having it out about the failure of the Fedral Medical Marijuana Program. Pot-TV More shows from Prince of Pot email to a friend

text of sven robinsons speech
FlashGordon, Wed May 21 15:46:24 2003
OTTAWA Please quote file:
EM03-43531
21 May, 2003.


Mr. John Gordon
E-mail: johnpatrickgordon@hotmail.com

Dear John,

Thank you for your recent letter regarding marijuana decriminalisation. I
have included the transcript of the exchange with the health minister that
you referred to for your convenience:


"Mr. Svend Robinson (Burnaby-Douglas, NDP): Mr. Chair, I appreciate this
opportunity to ask the minister a number of questions. The challenge for me
and my colleagues in the federal New Democrats was to decide on which
particular issues we wanted to hone in on this evening because there are so
many that we could raise in the course of 20 minutes. What I want to do is
to put a number of issues on the table to the minister and then invite her
to respond to them.
* * *
The area of medical marijuana is an area in which many Canadians are
absolutely disgusted at the fact that the government has recognized that
some Canadians in fact do need marijuana for medical purposes and that
marijuana actually helps them to relieve the agony and the pain of some
illnesses. Yet the government is in many cases forcing these people to
obtain their marijuana illegally.
Does the minister not recognize that? I have been contacted by a number
of Canadians on this issue. Permits have been issued to allow Canadians to
grow their own marijuana for medical purposes, but in many cases people have
to obtain the seeds or the plants illegally.
I want to ask the minister very specifically, why has the government not
introduced legislation to allow Health Canada to produce safe and legal
marijuana with standard THC content for patients that need it or at the very
least to allow them to provide patients with seeds or plants so they can
produce their own and not have to get it illegally?
The minister knows this is a concern. Some people using medical
marijuana actually thought that the marijuana that was being grown in
Manitoba would be made available to them. We were told that this was for
research purposes, so that was not the case. Therefore they go to the back
alleys and to illegal sources for that marijuana. Why is the government not
acting on this important issue?

Hon. Anne McLellan: ... Next is marijuana. I want to clarify this issue
because there is a lot of misunderstanding. The hon. member has taken the
opportunity to ask me on many occasions whether I and my department are
discharging our obligation around drug approvals and medical devices,
whether we are making sure we have rigorous clinical trials in place, and
whether we are analyzing the results of those clinical trials to determine
medicinal benefits and adverse effects.
I would expect the hon. member would demand exactly the same of me in
relation to any claim around medicinal marijuana. The clinical trials have
not been done to date. I have asked my department to search globally. The
clinical trials that we are doing now in Toronto and in Montreal under the
auspices of the CIHR, our open clinical trials, will probably be the most
comprehensive clinical trials ever done in the world in relation to whether
there are medicinal benefits from marijuana. We are the Department of
Health. The hon. member would be outraged if we let somebody use some
product for an alleged medicinal purpose without the clinical trials.
I will not be criticized for doing clinical trials to determine the
medicinal benefits. In the clinical trials, both closed, in Toronto and
Montreal, being run at McGill in the case of Montreal, marijuana is provided
to those who are participating in the closed trials. The open trials can
involve anyone who has an exemption under our regulatory regime. If they
wish to participate in the open trials, marijuana will be provided to them
so they do not need to worry about source of supply. Anyone who has an
exemption, applied for and granted, can receive to participate in that open
trial marijuana provided by us and marijuana, might I add, that has been
tested and standardized so we know exactly the product with which we are
dealing. We will be able to draw medically sound and scientifically based
conclusions from those open trials."


I have long believed that our current drug laws, particularly those on
cannabis, are anachronistic, repressive, hypocritical, and as many
commentators including B.C.'s chief coroner have noted, totally ineffective.


I strongly support the introduction of a non-criminal, non-punitive
regulatory approach to marijuana and other non-pharmaceutical drugs. The
criminal approach has been an abject failure. I condemn in the strongest
possible terms the ongoing hypocrisy of laws that criminalize marijuana
while supporting the far more destructive legal drugs of alcohol and
tobacco.

I share the concerns of many Canadians who are frustrated with the
government's long delays in producing a medical marijuana crop that can be
provided to those with prescriptions. Canadians who have been issued
permits often find that they must pay thousands of dollars for the marijuana
they need in order to live with otherwise untreatable chronic conditions.
This process is taking far too long, and patients are left wondering how
much more they will have to spend before the government finally takes
action.

At the same time, I realize that decriminalisation is not enough for many
chronically ill Canadians and others who require marijuana for medical use.
I am appalled about the failure to respond with compassion to those coping
with serious illnesses.

I hope this information is of assistance to you.

Sincerely yours,

Svend J. Robinson, M.P.
Burnaby-Douglas


SJR:eim

Re: Prince of Pot: The Big Decrim Scam! (pottv1964
rastaruss, Mon May 19 08:37:12 2003
First, thanks again for collecting these great clips.

Jon Stewart for President!!

But how about Anne McClelland screeching like a banshee about "clinical trials clinical trials clinical trials". Yes, Anne, you can sit down now.

Has anyone told Svend Robinson about the NIDA sprayed-on THC pot they are using for these clinical trials? Has anyone told Anne that there are exemptees outside of Montreal and Toronto who might be willing to participate, but can't due to BEING IN ANOTHER CITY?? Or those who won't give up their organic compassion club cannabis for US Gov't Schwag?

She really was freaking out, there in parliament. What a bozo.

Now, if only we could forget about trying to beat the Liberals in the next election, and concentrate on turning it into a MINORITY government, who actually have to hold a vote in parliament now and again.

Re: Prince of Pot: The Big Decrim Scam!
peacepuff, Fri May 16 09:35:24 2003
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