Medicinal marijuana legalized in Canada
Broadcast Date: July 30, 2001
"Here's my pot licence, officer." Those words could get users of medicinal marijuana off the hook the next time the police come calling. Canadians can now apply for a license to grow and smoke marijuana. But there's a sea of bureaucracy standing between them and the budding pot plants being grown for the government in an abandoned mine in Flin Flon, Man. As this clip reveals, people on both sides of the debate oppose the new system.Medicinal marijuana legalized in Canada
• In December 2000, under health minister Allan Rock, the federal government contracted Saskatoon-based Prairie Plant Systems to produce 400 kilograms of marijuana every year for four years. The pot is grown under tight security in an old mine owned by Hudson's Bay Mining and Smelting in Flin Flon, about 650 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.• Health Canada planned to use the crop for research into the therapeutic value of medicinal marijuana, and ultimately set up a system for distributing it to medical users. But the distribution system was put on hold when Anne McLellan took over as health minister. In August 2002 McLellan said she would wait for the Supreme Court of Canada to settle legal questions surrounding medicinal marijuana; an issue that makes her feel "a certain degree of discomfort."
Medicinal marijuana legalized in Canada
Medium: Television
Program: The National
Broadcast Date: July 30, 2001
Guest(s): Peter Barrett, Marilyn Chamney, Jody Gomber
Host: Peter Mansbridge
Reporter: Norman Hermant
Duration: 2:48
Last updated:
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