Marijuana: Why is Health Canada Failing the Sick?
I’m the kind of person who assumes every big government organization in Canada is either in the pocket of some corporation or only has motives that would suit the needs of the current administration. I assume that because I’m generally proven to be correct on a regular basis.
Let’s take any government run organization, how about…. HEALTH CANADA. You’d think that their basic priorities would be to make legislation that would take into account the health, wellbeing, and human rights of the citizens of Canada. I just assume so, because with a name like Health Canada it kind of says so right in the name right? They have been entrusted with our safety and wellbeing.
Well when it comes to medicinal marijuana it seems like the wellbeing of our nations sick mean absolutely nothing to Health Canada. They’ve blocked all attempts of anyone trying to make any proper change to our current fascist marijuana laws.
Basically they’ve restricted medicinal marijuana growers to produce so little that it’s forcing the users to get it from the black market. And they won’t let up. They’ve been taken to court 8 times and the Ontario Court of Appeal deemed these restrictions to be "unconstitutional".
So uh, what possible reason could there be to be so restrictive of a simple plant to the point of being unconstitutional? I can only think of two reasons: A) a group of powerful people in our government really don’t like marijuana, which doesn’t make any sense considering that it’s harmless. Oh you don’t think so? Do some damn research you uneducated prick… Ahem! I seem to be getting sidetracked…. B) common folk having access to marijuana must threaten the profits of a corporation(s). Corporations such as…. THE PHARMECUTICAL INDUSTRY perhaps? An industry who would hate to have a bunch of our problems solved by a happy plant that grows naturally in the wilderness and can be consumed in all kinds of innovative ways and that works better than any drug their top scientists can come up with?
The constitution doesn’t mean shit when profit is involved. And if you think about it, the fact that anything has remained "unconstitutional" for this length of time is very disturbing and makes me wonder how much longer we’ll even have a constitution. Let’s hear it for democracy! At least we’ve got lawyers like the fellow in this article putting pressure on these clowns.
February 15th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
You forgot the main industry that is benefiting from the prohibition on marijuana–the weapons producers. The ban on illegal drugs is nothing more that an excuse for massive arms production. We are creating war zones out of our inner cities and in entire countries. Think Columbia, Afghanistan and Mexico is not far behind. What is the potential here in Canada?
We need to see the war on drugs for what it really is, an excuse to manufacture weapons.
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February 17th, 2010 at 5:58 am
I agree Wendy. There are many underlying reasons why our governments want to continue to embrace prohibition. Besides making money off of the criminal activity, there is also the pharmaceutical industry that would keep marijuana illegal so they can keep making billions off of their various painkillers, that work about half as well as cannabis and kill way more people. Then there's the government alcohol industry, the industry that has a monopoly on the only legal recreational drug, which would hate to see a much better, much safer and natural mind expanding herb freely available. It would hurt these industries too much. It all boils down to financial gain. Tis a truly sad world we live in. Thanks for your comment!
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