Medical pot on way to drugstores (only in Canada, eh?)

[ConcernedCanuk]

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Medical pot on way to drugstores

Ottawa planning pilot project for B.C. Approved users won't need prescription



DEAN BEEBY
CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA—Health Canada plans to make government-certified marijuana available in pharmacies, a move that could rapidly boost the number of registered medical users.

Officials are organizing a pilot project in British Columbia, modelled on a year-old program in the Netherlands that would allow medical users to buy marijuana at their local drugstore.

Currently, there are 78 medical users in Canada permitted to buy Health Canada marijuana, which is grown in Flin Flon, Man. The 30-gram bags of dried buds, sold for $150 each, now are sent by courier directly to patients or to their doctors.

But the department is changing the regulations to allow participating pharmacies to stock marijuana for sale to approved patients without a doctor's prescription.









And I just haad to add this extra line from the article:


" However, some approved users say the Health Canada dope is of such poor quality that wider distribution and novel forms will not necessarily attract more users. "





:bounce: . :bounce: . :bounce: . :bounce:

[DrWeird]

1. I once gave a guy a ride to Fred Meyers.

He went to fill a prescription for medical marijuana. I assume legitimately at the pharmacy.

This was in Corvallis, Or.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

2. I like that caveat:

" However, some approved users say the Health Canada dope is of such poor quality that wider distribution and novel forms will not necessarily attract more users. "

Well I hope US senior citizens who get their medications from Canada will bring back some of that "poor quality" Health Canada weed. :P

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. Well heck - they should be trying it on the EAST Coast

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There's LOTSA bud in BC!!

or is it all "going south"?

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[Village Idiot]

3. Med-Pot grown at Flin Flon

is apparently (from reports from Cannabisculture.com) really
nasty tasting stuff!!!!

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. I've heard that "B.C.Bud" is pretty wicked ?

[bubblesby2002]

6. I will state unequivocally that BC bud is the best

apparently we grow the pot with the highest levels of THC. That is the ingredient that does the most good - that is for MS sufferers, and people with glaucoma etc.

I will aso say it tastes good. :smoke:

STupid governnemt though - yeah give the contract to a bid that includes Flin Flon Manitoba and aun underground mine, rather than a good operator in BC.:shrug: