Access Denied
Volume 3 - Issue 2

Education seems to be the growing issue. After all, Ann McLellan called pot smokers stupid. One would expect the woman who is both Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Minister of Public Safety to have better knowledge of the issue. I think the problem is bigger than we thought…..

The number of chronically ill Canadians using cannabis medicinally in this country today is estimated to be more than one million. Why then, does Canada’s legal marijuana medical access program have less than eight hundred participants? The medical associations do not want the doctors labeled with Health Canada’s assigned role of “marijuana gatekeepers”. They have advised doctors of the possible legal repercussions associated with this role and the majority of doctors are just refusing to sign any kind of prescriptions for marijuana, period.

The proposed amendments to the Marijuana Medical Access
Regulations will not alleviate this problem. Doctors do not want to sign for marijuana, now or in the future, and without the signature Health Canada deems the application for legal status incomplete and void. For years, this dysfunctional government system has blocked all legal access to marijuana for the vast majority of sick Canadians. In fact it has forced the most vulnerable of our citizens into the rank of criminals.