Canada To Sell Medical Marijuana In Drugstores

[matcom]

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OTTAWA -- Pot may soon be coming to Canadian drugstores.

Health Canada is planning a pilot program to sell medical marijuana in select pharmacies early next year. Canada would be just the second country in the world, after the Netherlands, to sell pot in drugstores.

There are more than 900 people in Canada authorized to use marijuana for medical conditions.

Robin O'Brien, a Vancouver pharmacist, is serving as a consultant to Health Canada. She said getting a pharmacist into the loop is important because reliable information about marijuana as medicine is difficult for patients to find.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4971961/detail.html

[In_The_Wind]

1. That is a step in the right direction ...

:thumbsup:

[regularguy]

2. Whoa Canada!

[Darth_Kitten]

3. For those who need it for medical reasons.....I'm happy for them.

:D :thumbsup:

[terrya]

4. I wish my family had lived in Canada when my dad had cancer.

This would have helped ease the pain he was going through and helped him get his appetite.

Of course, with our "War on Drugs" down here, it will be sometime in the 22nd century before we're as enlightened as our friends to the north.