Pubdate: Wed, 03 Apr 2013
Source: Coquitlam Now, The (CN BC)
Copyright: 2013Lower Mainland Publishing Group, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.thenownews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1340
Author: Wayne Phillips
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v13/n128/a11.html

GOVERNMENT HAS ACTED IN CONTEMPT OF COURTS

Re: "Legal grow-op plan 'failed miserably,' MP says," Wednesday, March 20.

What Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam MP James Moore fails to 
mention is that the medical marijuana access program is open to the 
abuse mentioned because Health Canada has mismanaged this 
court-ordered program.

It was the government's responsibility to provide reasonable access 
in a manner that did not compromise public safety, good governance 
and order; government failed to do that.

They, in effect, have acted in contempt of the courts. In failing to 
provide due diligence, not only were communities right across Canada 
placed in potentially precarious situations, those authorized to 
possess cannabis for medical purposes were also placed in unnecessary 
peril, to the point of detriment and even death.

Now Health Canada - at the government's bequest - wants to wipe its 
hands clean of that mismanagement while insuring a system is in place 
that profits off of those least able to afford it. Those authorized 
to possess cannabis for medical purposes will be left with limited or 
no access whatsoever with the new MMPR, the government gets let off 
the hook for its mismanagement of a court-ordered mandate affecting 
tens of thousands of Canadians and, according to the article, James 
Moore is OK with that.

Wayne Phillips, MMAR exemptee Hamilton, Ont.
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