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Health
Canada
Revisits
Proposal
to
Distribute
Medical
Cannabis
in
Licensed
Pharmacies
9/16/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/403/canada2.shtml
courtesy NORML News, http://www.norml.org
Health Canada may resurrect
a proposal to make government grown medicinal cannabis available in licensed
pharmacies, according to Canadian press reports.
The proposal, first announced
by the agency in February of last year, allows for select pharmacies to
distribute medical cannabis to authorized patients. Plans now call
for the pilot program to begin in British Columbia early next year.
If Health Canada implements
the plan, they will become the second nation to allow for the distribution
of federally grown cannabis in licensed pharmacies. The Netherlands
instituted a similar plan in 2003, though a recent study published in the
journal Pharmacoepidemiology Drug Safety notes that more than 80 percent
of Dutch patients continue to obtain medical cannabis from the black market
and/or coffee shops.
Under Canadian law, patients
may apply with Health Canada for a federal exemption to possess and cultivate
cannabis for medical purposes. Approximately 950 medical marijuana
patients are registered with the agency, although less than 250 currently
elect to receive government grown cannabis.
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Issue #403
-- 9/16/05
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Give
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Canada
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to
Distribute
Medical
Cannabis
in
Licensed
Pharmacies
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Spat,
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Lack
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