Mcgill and Concordia Students Join Lobby Group Seeking Reforms When students at McGill and Concordia return to classes for the fall semester there will be new chapters of a club that gives new meaning to higher education. The university campuses are set to become the only homes in Montreal for the Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy, a nationwide group that lobbies for reforms at the federal, provincial and municipal levels. The group advocates treating drug usage as a health issue rather than a criminal justice one, with activities revolving around policy points such as supporting the legalization of marijuana, rallying against minimum sentences for drug-related offences and advocating for harm-reduction programs, including safe needle exchanges. [continues 538 words]
Canadian study explored local scene and its link to high-risk behaviour "There was so much crack in the neighbourhood that users and outreach workers nicknamed the area Rochelaga." When anthropologist Nelson Arruda explored an east-end Montreal neighbourhood, he expected to find shooting galleries - dark, clandestine places where people inject drugs - and sex slaves addicted to the next high. What he found in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve were crack houses - located every three blocks, and concentrated on a stretch spanning 20 streets - - governed according to strict rules that included a ban on injecting and prostitutes who on the surface operated independently. [continues 1294 words]
Alcohol Intoxication Cases Can Get Bad, Especially in the Younger Kids Who Drink Too Much Too Fast. There is no set way or concrete guidelines for how front-line workers deal with the volatile issues that stem from drug and alcohol-related injuries at Montreal music festivals. Over the next three weeks, Montreal will be home to some of the largest music festivals in the country including Osheaga, Heavy MTL and IleSoniq. Hundreds of musical acts bring thousands of people from all over to Ile-Sainte-Helene for three consecutive weekends in August. [continues 1593 words]
Coderre Vows to Push Ahead Without Ottawa's Approval It will save lives, and that's been proven at 90 different (drug injection) sites around the world. Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre would like to see supervised injection sites introduced in the city by this fall, whether the federal government grants the required exemption to the groups involved in the project or not. "What are we waiting for? People are dying," Coderre said Thursday at a news conference. Montreal gave the safe-injection project the green light two years ago in 2013 - approval for three sites and a mobile unit where serious drug addicts can legally and safely inject themselves. The goal is to reduce death from overdose and HIV and other infections from dirty needles, Coderre said. [continues 644 words]
Mayor Denis Coderre is right to stand up to the federal government on the issue of supervised drug-injection sites in Montreal. After years of study and consultation - followed by the approval of $2.6 million in annual provincial funding - city officials announced on Thursday that they have asked Health Canada to grant an exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act that would allow the creation of three supervised injection sites and one mobile injection unit. There were predictable objections from Justice Minister Peter MacKay. His Conservative government is not friendly to such sites, arguing that they facilitate the use of illegal drugs and can pose a danger to the communities where they are located. However Coderre has jurisprudence and an overwhelming body of scientific evidence on his side. [continues 309 words]
School officials in Quebec will no longer be permitted to strip search students as the provincial government moved to act on a report recommending that only police officers conduct such examinations. The report, made public Wednesday, was ordered following the highly publicized strip search of a 15-year-old girl at a Quebec City school in February. The incident sparked outrage right across the country after the girl told a local paper she felt violated by the search after school officials suspected her of selling drugs. [continues 226 words]
Cannabis Registry Is Established to Gather Data From 3,000 Users to Allow Researchers to Gauge the Drug's Safety and Effectiveness Researchers in Quebec have launched a registry of medicinal cannabis users to determine the safety of the drug and its effectiveness in treating a variety of diseases and conditions. The Quebec Cannabis Registry will be used to compile and store clinical data collected directly from about 3,000 medical marijuana users in the province, who will be enrolled through their primary-care doctors over a 10-year period. [continues 518 words]
Policy Change Follows Outrage Over Search of 15-Year-Old Girl QUEBEC- School officials in Quebec will no longer be permitted to strip search students as the provincial government moved to act on a report recommending that only police officers conduct such examinations. The report, made public Wednesday, was ordered following the highly publicized strip-search of a 15-year-old girl at a Quebec City school in February. The incident sparked outrage right across the country after the girl told a local paper she felt violated by the search after school officials suspected her of selling drugs. [continues 157 words]
Pot seems to ease pain, but for which conditions and at what dose? A study led by Mark Ware aims to fill that gap Curled on the floor retching, Tzvetanka Chiderova yelled for her mother to get the water pipe. Within minutes, the Montreal web-designer stopped gagging. The waves of nausea disappeared, she said. "It was instantaneous," said Chiderova, who turned to marijuana for medicinal purposes as a last resort while being treated for stomach cancer. Without it, she says, she could not have continued with life-saving chemotherapy. [continues 813 words]
But Ottawa Has Final Say on Exemption The Quebec government has given the green light to a project introducing facilities in the Montreal area where drug users can legally and safely inject themselves, but it's still far from becoming a reality. Final approval for so-called safe-injection sites rests with the federal government, which has strongly criticized offering drug users legal spaces to consume illegal substances. In order to operate a safe injection site, the federal government must grant an exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. [continues 345 words]
Following up on suggestions from Montreal police, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue will be installing security cameras at Harpell Park in an effort to discourage drug deals and mischief. On Monday, town council authorized spending $15,000 for the purchase of security cameras to be installed at the park adjacent to the municipal library, community centre and an outdoor pool, just south of Highway 20. Mayor Paola Hawa said aside from the advice of police, some residents also have brought up concerns about loitering and drug transactions at Harpell Park. [continues 340 words]
The prime minister steadfastly refuses to decriminalize cannabis. Cigarette smoking is legal, unhealthy, addictive and taxable, an important revenue for governments. Pot is illegal, unhealthy, addictive and very costly to enforce. For criminal gangs, its sale is a wonderful source of income. To decriminalize marijuana could generate taxes and eliminate the cost of law enforcement. The taxes can be used to teach young people to avoid smoking altogether. Georges Plourde, Kirkland [end]
In a recent interview with VICE founder Shane Smith, President Obama was asked about his thoughts on legalizing marijuana, which was one of the most popular viewer-submitted topics for the interview. "It shouldn't be young people's biggest priority," he dictated. "I understand this is important to you, but you should be thinking about climate change, the economy, jobs, war and peace. Maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana." But people's interest in his answer to this question isn't about their political priorities. [continues 582 words]
Fighting possible removal from Quebec court Montreal - Two weeks before Quebec Superior Court Justice Michel Girouard was named to the bench in 2010, a security camera recorded him buying illicit drugs in the back office of a video store, the Canadian Judicial Council alleges in a document made public Tuesday. The information is contained in a 21-page summary of allegations against Judge Girouard, who could be removed from the bench after being caught up in a major Surete du Quebec drug sting, Operation Crayfish. [continues 549 words]
A teen girl who was strip-searched at a Quebec City high school in a highly publicized case has lost her bid to return to the same institution. The family's lawyer had sought an injunction, challenging the suspension and allowing her to return to the Neufchatel High School, which had suspended her last month. Family lawyer Francois- David Bernier said Quebec Superior Court Justice Bernard Godbout rejected the request Monday. Bernier had argued an urgent need for the 15- year-old girl to return to her old school to save her school year. The school had countered with a spot in a school for students with learning difficulties. [continues 321 words]
MONTREAL - A teen girl who was strip-searched at a Quebec City high school in a highly publicized case has lost her bid to return to the same institution. The family's lawyer had sought an injunction, challenging the suspension and allowing her to return to the Neufchatel High School, which had suspended her last month. Family lawyer Francois-David Bernier said Quebec Superior Court Justice Bernard Godbout rejected the request Monday. Bernier had argued an urgent need for the 15-year-old girl to return to her old school to save her school year. The school had countered with a spot in a school for students with learning difficulties. [continues 279 words]
Justin Trudeau's recent comments in Vancouver in support of drug injection sites are shameful. Our Conservative government strongly disagrees with Justin Trudeau's support for opening more injection sites for illegal drugs in communities across Canada. Dangerous and addictive drugs tear families apart, promote criminal behaviour, and destroy lives. We will continue to support treatment and recovery programs that work to get addicts off drugs and help them recover drug-free lives. That is why as Canada's health minister, in keeping with the Supreme Court's ruling, I will make sure that communities have a say when injection sites want to open. Our Conservative government's Respect for Communities Act will give local law enforcement, municipal leaders, and local residents a voice when injection sites want to open in communities. Canadian families expect safe and healthy communities in which to raise their children, and deserve to have a say if injection sites want to open in their neighbourhoods. Rona Ambrose ( Minister of Health), Ottawa [end]
Re: "Ticketing for marijuana possession on Tory radar" ( Montreal Gazette, March 4) My problem with issuing tickets for small amounts of marijuana is that it does not address the main problem of drug pushers. We call them drug pushers for a reason. Dealers ( pushers) are criminals with very little regard for the well-being of their customers. Often, the first time a person is introduced to harder drugs, the suggestion to give it a try comes from their pusher. I want to know that my children are safe from that influence. Justin Trudeau has the right idea. Legalize it, control it and tax it. Take the power out of criminal hands. Patty Clarke, Montreal [end]
Quebec's Education Minister Yves Bolduc had to backtrack Wednesday on earlier comments that condoned the strip search of a 15-year-old girl in Quebec City, who was suspected of carrying marijuana. In the province's National Assembly Wednesday he vowed to re-examine the policy allowing such searches by school staff. "We will ask a person external to and independent of the school board to evaluate what happened, write a report, and, at that moment, we will see based on the facts what we should do in the future," Mr. Bolduc said. [continues 234 words]
Minister vows to re-examine existing policy MONTREAL - Joyce Shanks doesn't want to contemplate what she'd do if her child were strip-searched at school. "I would lose it and so would my husband," said Shanks, whose daughter attends Grade 7 at a school in a Montreal suburb. The debate over the strip search of a 15-year-old girl at a Quebec City high school on Feb. 12 forced Education Minister Yves Bolduc to backtrack on comments made Tuesday that condoned the search of the girl, who was suspected of carrying marijuana. [continues 438 words]
Joyce Shanks doesn't want to contemplate what she'd do if her child were strip-searched at school. "I would lose it and so would my husband," said Shanks, whose daughter attends Grade 7 at a school in a Montreal suburb. The debate over the strip search of a 15-year-old girl at a Quebec City high school on Feb. 12 forced Education Minister Yves Bolduc to backtrack on comments made Tuesday that condoned the search of the girl, who was suspected of carrying marijuana. [continues 413 words]
Parents, School Officials and Legal Experts Oppose Action If I felt that it needed to go any further, certainly I would be involving the parents immediately, and I would certainly be calling upon the police as well. Joyce Shanks doesn't want to contemplate what she'd do if her child were strip-searched at school. "I would lose it and so would my husband," said the Dollard- des-Ormeaux mother, whose daughter attends Secondary I at Royal West Academy in Montreal West. [continues 886 words]
Quebec Education Minister Yves Bolduc says he wants to tighten the rules surrounding the controversial practice of strip searches of students in high schools in the province. Bolduc said Wednesday that he's ordered an independent expert to look into two such cases recently in Quebec - one in the provincial capital that has caused waves this week and another in the Beauce region. Just one day earlier, Bolduc had said the practice was legal and therefore authorized, to the extent that it was conducted in a manner that was "very respectful" to the student. [continues 362 words]
Policy draws criticism after 15-year-old girl forced to remove her clothing over suspicions she was dealing marijuana Quebec's Education Minister has ordered an independent review of the province's school strip search policy after an uproar over a 15-year-old girl who was made to remove all her clothes over suspicions she was dealing marijuana. The debate over intrusive searches in Canadian schools had gone dormant for a decade after several controversies, lawsuits and a Supreme Court case in 2001 that said strip-searching should only be done for serious reasons during lawful arrests, preferably at a police station. [continues 581 words]
QUEBEC - On the ropes for defending the strip search of a student at a Quebec City high school, Education Minister Yves Bolduc said he will order an investigation to determine whether the school acted appropriately. The education ministry also plans to tighten the protocol for searches in high schools, Bolduc's aide said. "We will ask a person external to, and independent of, the school board to evaluate what happened, write a report and, at that moment, we will see based on the facts what we should do in the future," Bolduc said in the National Assembly on Wednesday. [continues 378 words]
TORONTO - Parents and civil-rights activists alike reacted with outrage Wednesday at word that Quebec school officials had strip-searched a teenaged girl suspected of having marijuana - with the blessing of provincial government policy. In a day and age where educators can lose their jobs for laying a hand on a student, the province's Education Minister Yves Bolduc defended the searches as a reasonable safety measure in which teachers need not consult parents but aren't allowed to touch the students. [continues 308 words]
Joyce Shanks doesn't want to contemplate what she'd do if her child were strip-searched at school. "I would lose it and so would my husband," said Shanks, whose daughter attends Grade 7 at a school in a Montreal suburb. The debate over the strip search of a 15- year-old girl at a Quebec City high school on Feb. 12 forced Education Minister Yves Bolduc to backtrack on comments made Tuesday that condoned the search of the girl, who was suspected of carrying marijuana. [continues 471 words]
But education minister defends high school principal's actions MONTREAL - Quebec's education minister is under fire for defending high school officials who strip-searched a 15-year-old female student they suspected of selling drugs - an incident that has shocked some but appears to be well within the bounds of Canadian law. Yves Bolduc said the province's schools have guidelines setting out how and when education officials can bypass police and order students to submit their clothing to a rigorous search. [continues 669 words]
Quebec Education Minister Yves Bolduc said it's OK to strip search students suspected of concealing drugs as long as it's done respectfully and by the book. "It is permitted to do strip searches, on one condition: it must be very respectful, " he said at the National Assembly on Tuesday. "There are reasons for which we can be obliged to conduct searches," he continued. "What's important is that we respect the law and respect the framework that was put in place ( for searching students) and respect the person." [continues 246 words]
Youth Outreach Project Doubles Capacity With New Hire Last November, Head & Hands hired a second employee for its Street Work program, restoring the program to the capacity it had before budget cuts forced its discontinuation in 2011. The program was partially reinstated in 2013 with the hiring of a single street worker after substantial fundraising. Head & Hands is an organization that caters to the needs of youth between the ages of 12 to 25 in Montreal who may not have access to certain resources, ranging from counselling to legal services to free condoms to clean needles. [continues 617 words]
Opinions Differ on Which Treatment Approach Is Most Effective for Cocaine Users In Montreal, it's relatively easy to find cocaine and get high. Even though the next day comes with a requisite crash of the neurochemical dopamine, one partygoer might sleep it off and continue to use casually, or not at all. Another might keep using, attempting to regulate short-term feelings and find that euphoria, eventually becoming addicted. As pervasive as the use of this drug may be, Sante Montreal says it has no specific information how many cocaine addicts there are in this city. Health Canada statistics from 2011 indicate that 9.4 per cent of Canadians had used illicit drugs over the last year, with 0.9 per cent using cocaine or crack. [continues 1855 words]
Drug Causes Mood Swings, Impulsive Behaviour, Montreal Research Shows Users of cocaine and amphetamines are twice as likely to attempt suicide than other people who inject drugs, a new study from the Universite de Montreal has found. The study, published in the Nov. 26 issue of the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, followed the users of injectable drugs over a seven-year period. The users answered questionnaires twice a year. The study found that users of cocaine and amphetamines were roughly twice as likely to attempt suicide than users of opiates, sedative-hypnotics, cannabis and alcohol. [continues 411 words]
'Sunny Profit' Brags About Drug Use And Trafficking From Behind Bars Warning - This story contains language that could be offensive to some people. His real name is Michael Mines, a 30- year-old convicted drug dealer from Pointe- Saint- Charles. On Facebook, he uses the pseudonym Sunny Profit. There, for months in the comfort of social media cyberspace, he has apparently posted several updates about his frequent drug use inside the Cowansville Institution and later the Donnacona Institution, a maximum-security penitentiary near Quebec City. [continues 1099 words]
The opening of Montreal's first medical marijuana clinic staffed by doctors is a long overdue occurrence. The therapeutic benefits of cannabis have long been extolled by certain patients and practitioners, claims researchers are just starting to explore. Thanks to a court decision, Canadians who meet certain criteria have been able to obtain marijuana legally since 2001. And since April of 2014, Health Canada has been licensing pot producers, issuing permits to patients and allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana. But proper oversight of patients who rely on pot to treat pain or lessen symptoms is sorely lacking. About 12,000 Canadians have registered with Health Canada's medical marijuana program and receive their prescriptions from 22 registered producers through the mail. Often the dosage is determined in consultation with the licensed grower rather than a physician. Only 800 doctors have exercised the new prescription powers, suggesting a reticence in the medical community that is understandable given the questions that remain unanswered. At the same time, there are patients who have been self-medicating with illegally obtained marijuana who would be better off with a proper prescription and supervision. [continues 381 words]
Montreal family physician Michael Dworkind first saw enormous benefits of marijuana in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome. They were suffering from nausea, weight loss, inflammation, moodiness, insomnia and a host of aches. "I could see the devastation," recalled Dworkind, who specializes in palliative care at the Jewish General Hospital, yet some suddenly got their appetite back and improved their overall health. "'Well, doctor,' they said, 'I had a toke,' " Dworkind said. Turns out that what worked with HIV/AIDs also improved the lives of seriously ill cancer patients. [continues 783 words]
Opening First Medical Marijuana Clinic Was Premature, Barrette Says Rules imposed by Ottawa last spring put physicians in a rough position of operating in the dark when it comes to prescribing marijuana, Quebec Health Minister Gaetan Barrette said after Montreal's first medical marijuana clinic opened its doors to patients Tuesday. There could be accidents, Barrette told reporters, since marijuana did not go though the usual drug approval process: "We're experimenting. What is happening today is total experimentation." Doctors are unsure of dosages, Barrette said, but stopped short of demanding the Sante Cannabis clinic be shuttered. [continues 464 words]
As of April, Health Canada gave doctors the go-ahead to prescribe medical marijuana, but to which patient and at what dose? It was put in the hands of physicians who did not know what to prescribe "for lack of hard evidence," says Denis deBlois, Universite de Montreal professor of pharmacy and co-director of a research group on medication. Marijuana for therapeutic reasons remains controversial. Few clinical trials have evaluated its effects. Which conditions does it help? There's a strict process of evaluation of risk-to-benefit ratio before Health Canada gives its stamp of approval to a medication, but that's not the case for marijuana, said deBlois, a co-organizer of a one-day symposium on medical marijuana that takes place Friday and brings together experts in pain management, addiction, and drug monitoring. [continues 402 words]
New Research on Psychedelics Is Unveiling Their Potential for Healing As university students, we know how prevalent substance use is. It's practically impossible to go through your degree (or your day) without being exposed to the use of coffee, energy drinks, alcohol, cigarettes, pot, Ritalin or other drugs for a variety of reasons ranging from partying to relaxing to studying. In our daily lives, the social acceptability of particular drugs is based heavily on stigma and the law, rather than on a sober evaluation of their effects and harms. [continues 738 words]
As part of a health research project, nursing professor-turned filmmaker Barbara Moffat was interviewing teens who smoked cigarettes. But they were more interested in talking about pot. "They said, 'Why don't you ask us about marijuana? It's much easier to get,'" Moffat recalled Thursday from her Vancouver office at the University of British Columbia. Bolstered by a five-year federal government grant to study youth and cannabis in three major areas, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, and the Kootenay region of B.C., Moffat's team turned their research results into a film. Cycles will be making its Quebec debut (with French subtitles) at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Friday. [continues 416 words]
The city of Montreal will see supervised drug injection sites on its territory in the near future, Mayor Denis Coderre announced Wednesday. "Following the (2011) ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada where it was clearly stated ... that these sites are important for public health and security, it is clear this affects many people ..." Coderre said. "There will be three supervised sites because if we want to reach these people and help them, these sites are important, be they permanent or mobile." [continues 239 words]
MONTREAL - Liberal Party of Canada CFO Chuck Rifici has become a multimillionaire in just a few months thanks to his stock-traded medical marijuana company, QMI Agency has learned. Documents show Rifici's initial investment in Tweed Marijuana Inc. has so far sprouted into an $18-million bumper crop. Rifici co-founded Tweed and served as its CEO until he resigned on Aug. 27. He remains on the company's board. According to financial statements, Rifici's fortune exploded after Tweed's initial public offering in April 2014, when it became one of the first to sell legal marijuana under a new Health Canada licensing system. [continues 319 words]
Paul Cherry looks at two sides of Jimmy Cournoyer, the man they call the King of Pot. There are two sides to Jimmy Cournoyer. On one hand is the man described as a considerate person who spared no expense in 2009 when a man, celebrating Cournoyer's 30th birthday with a group of friends on the island of Ibiza, suffered an accident that left him paralyzed for life. Cournoyer spent "tens of thousands" to make sure his friend, a fellow Laval resident who had no travel insurance, was well treated in a hospital for a week and then flown back to Canada by air ambulance. [continues 796 words]
On this 28th day of July, marking 25 years since the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, we are calling attention to World Hepatitis Day. Why? To begin with, because more than 50,000 Quebecers have the disease. In Canada, the figure is 300,000 to 350,000 people, more than a quarter of whom do not know they have it. Next, because there are new, highly effective treatments for treating and eradicating hepatitis C, with cure rates exceeding 90 per cent. However, in Canada, fewer than 5 per cent of people with hepatitis C have, to date, obtained treatment for it. Hepatitis C is transmitted through the blood. In other words, any act that can cause the blood of two individuals to come into contact can constitute a risk of transmission: parlour-based tattooing and piercing; sharing drug-use equipment and personal-hygiene items; transfusion prior to 1992; and sometimes even certain risky sexual practices. [continues 314 words]
Arbitration Rulings Show It's Considered a 'Disability' MONTREAL - A war of words has broken out over a fired cocaine-using locomotive engineer. Canadian Pacific chief executive Hunter Harrison lashed out when CP was ordered this month to reinstate the engineer even though an arbitrator confirmed the employee had "consumed cocaine at a time and of a quantity which could impact his work performance." Harrison said: "On my watch, this individual will not operate a locomotive." The engineer's union - Teamsters Canada Rail Conference - called Harrison's comments an "unjustified and unprecedented" personal attack, arguing the worker deserved a second chance. [continues 1456 words]
MONTREAL * With fatal overdoses in Montreal up sevenfold over the past two months, Quebec public-health authorities are scrambling to stem what they say is an unprecedented tide of drug-induced death. The director of public health for Montreal published new statistics this week showing that 13 people died of opiate overdoses in May and another five in June. Normally the city sees an average of 1.3 overdose deaths a month. The sharp increase, believed to be tied to a more potent drug supply on the city's streets, has prompted the provincial government to approve accelerated training so paramedics will be equipped to administer the drug naloxone, which restores normal breathing in overdose victims who have suffered respiratory failure. [continues 401 words]
Former UFC Champ Writes Letter Cournoyer, Awaiting Sentencing for Drug Trafficking, Is a 'Really Good Friend' A Quebec man who is awaiting his sentence in a case in the U.S., where he pleaded guilty to trafficking in massive amounts of marijuana, has support from a pretty heavy hitter. Jimmy Cournoyer, 34, who has been dubbed The King of Pot by some in the media who have covered his federal case in New York, recently filed his position on his upcoming sentence and it includes a letter of support from Ultimate Fighting Championship superstar Georges St-Pierre. [continues 779 words]
MONTREAL - The main hospital in Quebec's Eastern Townships has put governments on the spot with its policy on pot. Doctors, dentists and pharmacists at CHUS hospital this week unanimously approved marijuana use by patients who are federally licensed to own the drug. The patients will have to use vapour machines and bring their own pot into the hospital. Administration is expected to decide soon if it will formally approve the doctors' recommendation. The Canadian Medical Association wouldn't comment on the case Friday, but the CHUS doctors appear to be out of step with the CMA on the issue. [continues 140 words]
MONTREAL - The main hospital in Quebec's eastern townships has put governments on the spot with its policy on pot. Doctors, dentists and pharmacists at CHUS hospital this week unanimously approved marijuana use by patients who are federally licensed to own the drug. The patients will have to use vapour machines and bring their own pot into the hospital. Administration is expected to decide soon if it will formally approve the doctors' recommendation. The Canadian Medical association wouldn't comment on the case Friday, but the CHUS doctors appear to be out of step with the CMA on the issue. [continues 141 words]
MONTREAL - The main hospital in Quebec's Eastern Townships has put governments on the spot with its policy on pot. Doctors, dentists and pharmacists at CHUS hospital this week unanimously approved marijuana use by patients who are federally licensed to own the drug. The patients will have to use vapour machines and bring their own pot into the hospital. Administration is expected to decide soon if it will formally approve the doctors' recommendation. The Canadian Medical Association wouldn't comment on the case Friday, but the CHUS doctors appear to be out of step with the CMA on the issue. [continues 141 words]
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