Feature:
Interview with
Health Canada
Editorial
Barb St.Jean
“Let the people know the truth and the country
is safe.” - Abraham Lincoln
Imagine this scenario. Funding United
Policies (FUP) has an army of District
Encroachment Officers called (DEO). They
are currently infiltrating their way into our
private homes, disseminating prohibitionist
propaganda to school-aged children through
their “drug education” programme, and
encouraging them to inform on “offending”
family members and neighbors. Great in
number, they have positioned themselves
within most global communities. The FUP’s
DEO teams are being rewarded with large
cash payoffs. Up to 5 million dollars can be
granted for each successful infiltration. For
decades DEO personnel, under direction of
their United Policy regime, have been criminalizing,
marginalizing and destroying the
rights and freedoms of law abiding citizens.
For years this attack on humanity has largely
gone unchecked. DEOs have powerful leadership,
relentless determination and vast funding
resources. However, to combat the DEO,
the Propaganda Opposition Project (POP)
has recently expanded its POP Watch
program. Law abiding citizens have been
located within each school and neighborhood
battleground. When the DEO are evident, if
someone is being told or given propaganda, is
being harassed or threatened, action is immediately
taken, documented, and compiled for
future public exposure. The law abiding
members of the POP Watch program will do
what ever it takes to stop this insanity.
Myth or Truth? The above description
sounds like comic book
fiction, an aspect of
Orwell’s “1984” or an
epidemic of psychosis. Yet,
the content is based on the
reality of the War on
Drugs. Shocked? Don’t
worry, even the strongest
and wisest must occasionally
take a step back to
shake their heads in disbelief.
The freedom to make
our own choice should be
one of our fundamental
human rights. It is
ingrained into our souls as
Canadians and is the
reason why so many of us
continue to fight for
peace.
The War on Drugs is
built on lies. Even our
children have been made
the targets of deception,
and it must be stopped.
But in order for it all to
end, the level of propaganda
awareness must be
improved upon. The internet is a wonderful
tool for this. People just need to follow the
documented propaganda back to source, and
read.
The demand and retrieval of accurate
information, what a concept! It is not
however an easy task, as any research
analyst will tell you. In this age of information
overload one must wade through
streams of data to find the elusive “accurate
information” stamp. I personally use the
“who said what, why and where”
method in determining accuracy. If the
“who” is known as credible then the
“what” can be claimed accurate and in
many cases that’s all the criteria used by
many media. However, I find this only works
if the “who” is independent - not part of an
entity, and is prepared to tell the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but. Otherwise the
“why” relates to the credibility of he associated
source entity/s, and then the
“where” needs to be determined. By following
the information back to the final source
you will be amazed at what you can find.
The first telltale sign of propaganda is the
inaccurate interpretation of scientific statements.
No references are generally made to
any credible independent studies. The focus
usually consists of scare tactics, like pictures
of holey brains, threats of incarceration or
organized crime invasions.
If you want to check it out, start with the
prohibition propaganda pamphlet;
“Marijuana - What’s the Big Deal” passed
directly to students (and CH) by a DAREBC/
DAS program officer at the Community
Symposium on Drugs and Related Youth
Issues, held recently in Castlegar, BC. (Watch
for coverage of this excellent two day discussion
forum in a future issue of CH). The
pamphlet contains gross untruths about the
properties of marijuana, including a photo,
depicting a “Marijuana affected Brain”
which appears to be riddled with corrosion
and holes.
These “information” pamphlets or studies
are generally funded by enforcement affiliates,
i.e. ADIC/DAS/DAREBC/FVU/DEA
(acronyms are very popular). If you trace the
associations and links back, in most cases it
will lead you to an enforcement agency in the
US or possibly a DEA agency stationed in
one of the US Embassies in Canada. The
White House Drug Policy training manual
entitled “Marijuana Myths and FACTS”
(see link below), is a prime example of the
huge US budgetary spending of affiliates like
NIDA in their battle to maintain the global
status quo. This paper was completely
debunked years ago by Dr Lester Grinspoon in
his book “Marijuana Reconsidered”.
This elementary concept of evaluating
the credibility of information based on accurate
source material rarely happens in today’s
information society. Who has time? The
stream is huge, and the distorted effects of
the water drops are in the eyes of the beholders,
affiliations, associations and funding
sources. Remember, propaganda is the tool
used to build the webs of prohibition.
The majority of Canadian pot smokers
and brownie munchers already know that
they, for the most part, are not psychotic, nor
do they have holes in their heads from using
the herbal form of Cannabis. In fact, most
Canadians know that cannabis cultivation
and consumption is not in itself dangerous
and poses no threat to individuals or society.
Canadians also need not worry about some
perceived drug crime syndicate. They do,
however, need to start demanding protection
from the organized prohibitionist enforcement
agencies who have orchestrated this
psychotic drug war in the first place.
Barb St.Jean
“Working together we can treat Washington’s
40 billion dollar a year addiction to the War
on Drugs.” - Polly Wilmoth Waco, TX
Quote source:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/
Myth and Truth - Source
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/
marijuana_myths_facts/
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Volume 3 Issue 3
Mar/Apr 2005
Contents
Health Canada Interview
Dr. Richard Viau
Canadian Aids Society
& Cannabis as a Therapy
Lynne Belle-Isle
Sublingual Delivery of Sativex
Dr. Lester Grinspoon MD
The Body’s own
Cannabinoid System
Dr. Franjo Grotenhermen MD
Strain Specific Research
with Wo/Man’s Alliance for
Medical Marijuana
Valerie Corral
Cannabis in Pharmacies:
The Next Step
Dr. Glenda MacDonald
Dr. Robin O’Brien
Crazy Cookies
Cannabis edibles
and the law circa 2005
John Conroy QC
Marijuana Leader Joins Liberal
Party of Canada
Marc Boris St Maurice
Jeffrey’s Journey
book review
Pulmonary Drug Delivery Technologies
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Snip from
Health Canada Interview:
The
interview was conducted
by Cannabis Health with Dr. Richard
Viau, Acting Director General of Health
Canada’s Drug Strategy and Controlled
Substances Programme.
In preparation for the interview, we
polled various members of the global
cannabis community for their questions.
This community is highly educated and is
made up of many organizations (governmental
and N.G.O). It also includes
consumers from every walk of life and
culture; ethical/compassionate growers
and providers, professionals, and scientists
alike. The information currently available
to this community is equally diverse as it
comes from many sources and takes in all
aspects of cannabis production - strain
selection, growing methods, environmental
conditions, curing and storage processes,
secondary processing, product testing,
delivery methods and more. Research
analysis, comparison studies, and opinions
circulate at the accelerated speed of
today’s communications media. As the
number of cannabis users has risen steadily,
so has the demand for accurate information.
The cannabis community openly
shares information and techniques. A lack
of disclosure from any producer, even
though this is largely an unregulated
industry, results in avoidance of the product.
The overwhelming response to our poll
indicated that concerns about access,
production, and safety standards are at
the top of everyone’s list.
......QUALITY:
CH: The first marijuana distributed
by HC/PPS for patient consumption was
blended with leaf and stem and had low
levels of THC. Grinding cannabis is
known to increase oxidation and deterioration
of THC. Although the THC level
is only one part of the effectiveness of
the overall product, it is tied to consumption
levels. The stronger it is , the less is
needed, thereby reducing the risk
incurred by smoking. In addition, the
analgesic and anti-spasmodic effect
appears to be more significant in
cannabis with higher levels of THC.
Have your requirements and standards
for the product changed since that time?
RV: Let’s look at consistency. The grinding
is to try and get more consistency because
every plant is a little bit different from every
other plant and it depends if you just take the
primary bud or the secondary buds. It also
depends on the maturity level and the time
you harvest. There are a lot of factors that
affect your THC level. We have been doing a
lot of work to optimize all of those conditions
so we can reduce those inconsistencies. One
of the things that we do is the grinding so
that, in fact, from batch to batch, even within
a batch, when you take a sample it will beconsistent. That is the reason behind that. Read More
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