🚀 go-pugleaf

Allan Rock's new regulatory framework for allowing certain patients to
have access to medical marijuana is an attempt to save the criminal
prohibition of marijuana use from being judicially struck down.  The
Ontario Court of Appeal in R. v. Parker made it clear to the federal
government that medical marijuana must be made available, not just
prosecutorally tolerated, for persons suffering conditions that are
ameliorated by marijuana.  The Canadian government is now acting under
the threat of having its marijuana laws repealed by the court; it is
liberalizing the law to preserve it, not simply to help patients.

Allan Rock is a smug, self-serving hypocrite.  He appeared on Open
Mike, a Canadian late night talk show, and alluded to his own use of
marijuana.  "I have never used marijuana" he said, pausing before
completing his sentence, "medically".  Yet this man, who grinned
mischeiviously as he referred to pot smoking and discussed his travels
with John Lennon, was the Minister of Justice, the man responsible for
the continued criminalization of marijuana and the prosecution of
Canadians for possession of marijuana.

A generation of boys and girls who enjoyed the safe and peaceable use
of marijuana many years ago now occupy the heights of political power.
Its too bad that they have turned into tight-assed puritanical
neo-cons.

MGoldmacher
Barrister and Solicitor

Hey Allan, sue me for libel!