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Grow
Canada:
Health
Canada
Medical
Marijuana
Contract
Has
Bidders
Abuzz
6/2/00
In a matter of days, Health
Canada, the Canadian government's medical agency, will close bidding on
a five-year, $5 million contract to provide the raw material for clinical
research trials on marijuana's efficacy and safety for medical purposes.
The contract calls for the production of 100,000 joints and 100 kilograms
in the first year, with those amounts doubling during the program's remaining
four years. The successful bidder must grow, cultivate, dry, prepare
and deliver the weed to the Canadian government.
Applicants are required to
have a science degree and be bilingual in French and English. They
(and their employees) also must have no drug-related criminal records since
1985 and must provide security measures for their crops, including cameras,
infrared sensors, and barbed wire fencing. Bidders must be able to
show they have the financial capability and the proper resources to complete
the project. The government is interested only in growing greenhouse
marijuana.
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Issue #139, 6/2/00
DEA Supersnitch Goes Down in Flames, DEA Supervisors Next? Or, Who Will Investigate the Investigators? | Ecstasy Panic Looms: 1985 All Over Again? | Grow Canada: Health Canada Medical Marijuana Contract Has Bidders Abuzz | Two Drug Policy and Sentencing Reform Newsletters Come Out | ... While Another Newsletter Concludes Its Distinguished History | Pressure Builds to Reform Rockefeller Drug Laws | US Customs Urges Congress to Allow Searches of Out-of-Country Mail | Massachusetts State Senate Approves Needle Exchange Bill | Action AlertS | Media Scan | Event Calendar | Hartford, Connecticut Job Opportunity | Editorial: My First Controlled Substance
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